Why Is My Sound Not A Valid Member Of PlayerGui?
So, I'm right now making a part instancing a new sound and playing it, however, I keep getting an error called: Screech is not a valid member of PlayerGui. Someone, please find a fix for this, here is my script:
01 | screech = script.Parent |
02 | debounce = false |
03 | screech.Touched:connect(function(hit) |
04 | if not debounce then |
05 | debounce = true |
06 | local sound = Instance.new("Sound", game.StarterGui) |
07 | sound.SoundId = "rbxassetid://1841154098" |
08 | sound.Volume = 1 |
09 | sound.Looped = true |
10 | sound.Name = "Screech" |
11 | game.Players[hit.Parent.Name].PlayerGui.Screech:Play() |
12 | end |
13 | end) |
2 answers
You are using StarterGui as a parent when creating your sound, which doesn't work for your purpose. Instead, change the parent to: game.Players[hit.Parent.Name].PlayerGui.
StarterGui only gets copied to your PlayerGui when you respawn or join the game.
As follows:
01 | screech = script.Parent |
02 | debounce = false |
03 | screech.Touched:connect(function(hit) |
04 | if not debounce then |
05 | debounce = true |
06 | local sound = Instance.new("Sound", game.Players[hit.Parent.Name].PlayerGui) |
07 | sound.SoundId = "rbxassetid://1841154098" |
08 | sound.Volume = 1 |
09 | sound.Looped = true |
10 | sound.Name = "Screech" |
11 | game.Players[hit.Parent.Name].PlayerGui.Screech:Play() |
12 | end |
13 | end) |
StarterGui is a folder that copies it's children and inserts them to a Player's PlayerGui. PlayerGui is where the player would see any ScreenGui and it's GuiObjects inside of it.
In your code, you parent the Sound object to the StarterGui when it should be the PlayerGui.
We can use the :GetPlayerFromCharacter() function to get us the player since the hit parameter in the Touched event could have a Parent that is the Character.
01 | local Players = game:GetService("Players") |
02 |
03 | local screechPart = script.Parent |
04 | local soundId = 1841154098 --Your original sound id to play |
05 |
06 | local debounce = false |
07 |
08 | screechPart.Touched:Connect(function(hit) |
09 | local human = hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart") |
10 | if human then |
11 | if debounce then return end |
12 | debounce = true |
13 |
14 | local player = Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent) |
15 |
Another thing you might notice is that I included rbxassetid:// to retrieve the proper Id for the Sound object. You'll get a load error without this.
Let me know if you need something explained or if I had missed anything.
Edit:
:connect is deprecated. Use :Connect. You should also Parent instances after setting it's properties, so don't use the second parameter to Instance.new()