I've been trying to make a guy appear through touch scripts but nothing seems to be working. I've tried enabling the screenGUI and the frame using:
"game.StarterGUI.ScreenGUI.Enabled = true" and "game.StarterGUI.ScreenGUI.Frame.Visible = true" (without the "")
But nothing happens.
The problem here is that you are using StarterGui
instead of PlayerGui
. Also out of personal preference, I really do not like using the enabled property of screen guis.
You may be asking, "why use the player gui?", what is the player gui?", and why can't I see the player gui?".
Well the player gui is an object inside the player that is created when a person joins the game. When that player joins the game, everything in StarterGui gets cloned into the PlayerGui. The reason you cant see it is because it doesnt exist when you are making the game,only when a player joins(or you use a local server / play solo).
With that said, lets see how you can use the PlayerGui:
local gui = game.Players.LocalPlayer:WaitForChild("PlayerGui"):WaitForChild("MyGui") local frame = MyGui.Frame local button = MyGui.TextButton button.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function() frame.Visible = not Frame.Visible end)
Note here that the PlayerGui isn't a service like StarterGui, but an object.
Important Note: modify gui elements in a local script, not a server script
While the basics do work, you can add some flare to you on/off mechanism with the tweenPosition function
local gui = game.Players.LocalPlayer:WaitForChild("PlayerGui"):WaitForChild("MyGui") local frame = MyGui.Frame local button = MyGui.TextButton local open = false button.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function() if open then frame:TweenPosition(Udim2.new(0.3,0,1,0)) else frame:TweenPosition(Udim2.new(0.3,0,.3,0)) end end)