Anytime I try to access a Gui form PlayerGui I get an error in not being able to find it. Can someone help me? Thx in Advance. BTW - I use WaitForChild
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How do you access a Gui from ServerScriptService script?
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This is because normal scripts can't get local scripts. If you really want normal scripts to access GUIs you should use RemoteEvents.
SERVER SCRIPT
local remoteEvent = game.ReplicatedStorage.RemoteEvent --The remoteEvent
remoteEvent:FireAllClients() --Fire the remoteEvent for all clients/players.
LOCAL SCRIPT
local remoteEvent = game.ReplicatedStorage.RemoteEvent --The remoteEvent
local label = script.Parent --The TextLabel
remoteEvent.OnClientEvent:Connect(function() --When the remoteEvent fires for clients. E.g FireAllClients
label.Text = "Hello World!" --Change the text to "Hello World!"
end)
The scripts above is a hypothetical situation in which you want to change a GUI's TextLabel's text into "Hello World!" using a server script. We use a remote event and fire it for clients/players so that they could see it.
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I usually use this stuff for things like map voting GUIs and other stuff. You can use it for that direct purpose as well.
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Server Scripts cannot access (read or change) the PlayerGui without having placed the Gui there themselves