Help with GUI showing when a part is touched

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#1

Hello, I am a solo Roblox Dev who doesn’t have much ability in the realm of scripting. I am trying to make a GUI appear when a player touches a part, I know this probably seems simple to most but I just can’t seem to figure it out. I have spent around 2 hours trying to figure it out on my own, and have watched a few tutorials/ read dev forum posts. So it would mean a lot if somebody could help teach me how to do this task I would appreciate it greatly.

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#2

You can get the players name when the part is touched. You then can use

game:GetService("Players")[plr.Name]

Something like that, and then you copy the gui to their player gui.

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#3

Something like:

local part = game.workspace.Part -- replace with pathway to your part
local GUIFrame = script.Parent -- replace with pathway to your Frame. I shoudl note that this example is a local script;
local db = false --We make a debounce, as Touched can fire a lot at once. This is used like a cooldown
part.Touched:Connect(function(Hit) -- We listern if the part has been touched
if db == false and GUIFrame.Visible == false and game.Players.LocalPlayer == game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(Hit.Parent) then -- We check the cooldown and they we have the right player.
db = true
GUIFrame.Visible = true --Cooldown is active and frame visible
task.wait(5)
db = false
GUIFrame.Visible = false --Cooldown is active and frame invisible

end
end)
--This is a basic setup for something like this, and you can do it many different ways!

Hope this helps!

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#4

Thank you everybody for the help, I will try this first thing tomorrow. (I’ve lost all energy to work on the game for tonight😅)

#5

This is POG_CAT’s script but just more refined.
Put this in a script and in your part.
Put your gui into the script and edit the values.

local TouchPart = script.Parent -- The part that is going to be touched 😲
local UI = script.GUI -- Put your GUI

TouchPart.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
	if hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") ~= nil then
		local plr = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent)
		if not plr.PlayerGui:FindFirstChild("PUT YOUR GUI NAME HERE") then
			local clone = UI:Clone()
			clone.Enabled = true
			clone.Parent = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent)
		end
	end
end)
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#6

Thank you very much I’ll try this tomorrow.

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#7

Here’s an example easy LocalScript that you can parent under your UI.
Make sure the UI is not enabled at first.

local Part = game.Workspace.Part -- Enter your part location
local YourUI = script.Parent -- Enter your UI's location

Part.Touched:Connect(function(hit) -- When the part's .Touched event gets fired, we catch that and connect it to a function. The "hit" is the part that touched the part that you wanted to be touched.
   if not hit.Parent or not hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then return end -- Checking if the hit part actually belongs to a character

   local player = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent) -- Getting the player object from the character
   if not game.Players.LocalPlayer == player then return end -- Checking if the player that touched the part is the current player
   
   UI.Enabled = true -- Enabling the UI
end)
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