Why is it not in my head?

[Earthraphobic2]

Hello! I want to make it so that when the player joins, a billboard appears over their head.

However, this isn’t working as the billboard is not parented to the head. I don’t know why this isn’t working and I would greatly appreciate it if someone could help!

Thank you.

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
	local char = plr.Character or plr.CharacterAdded:Wait()
	local billboard = Instance.new("BillboardGui")
	local textlabel = Instance.new("TextLabel")
	
	billboard.Parent = char:FindFirstChild("Head")
	billboard.Active = true
	billboard.MaxDistance = 30
	billboard.ResetOnSpawn = false
	billboard.StudsOffset = Vector3.new(0, 2, 0)
	billboard.Size = UDim2.new(0, 200 , 0, 50)
	billboard.Name = "FighterGui"

	textlabel.Parent = billboard
	textlabel.BackgroundTransparency = 1
	textlabel.Visible = true
	textlabel.Font = Enum.Font.Arcade
	textlabel.TextScaled = true
	textlabel.Size = UDim2.new(0, 200 , 0, 50)
	textlabel.Name = "LabelFighter"
end)

[PurpleHorseMint]

Seems to be working…

billboard-working.rbxl (53.2 KB)

[Earthraphobic2]

Hmm… that’s odd.

For me, it just doesn’t show up!

[PurpleHorseMint]

what is different between that baseplate project I uploaded and yours?

[Earthraphobic2]

Nothing. I haven’t done anything to the character

[PurpleHorseMint]

Dose it show up when you run the project I uploaded?

[Earthraphobic2]

yep! but in my game its just not being added at all to the players head.

[PurpleHorseMint]

Then something is different

[Earthraphobic2]

Is this because I am using an R15 Character?

[PurpleHorseMint]

I dunno, does it have a Head at the character root?

Check the model while running:

[MARKedGamingR (MarkedThing)]

Instead of creating the entire Billboard using the script, just clone it into the player’s character and set the adornee to their root part.

game:GetService("Player").PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)
	Player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(Character)
		local Billboard		=	script.FighterGui:Clone()
		Billboard.Parent	=	Character
		Billboard.Adornee	=	Character.HumanoidRootPart
	end)
end)

[PurpleHorseMint]

This ^ suggestion works too - full code:

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
	local char = plr.Character or plr.CharacterAdded:Wait()
	local billboard = Instance.new("BillboardGui")
	local textlabel = Instance.new("TextLabel")
	local hrp = plr.Character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")

	billboard.Parent	= plr.Character
	billboard.Adornee	= hrp
	billboard.Active = true
	billboard.MaxDistance = 30
	billboard.ResetOnSpawn = false
	billboard.StudsOffset = Vector3.new(0, 4, 0)
	billboard.Size = UDim2.new(0, 200 , 0, 50)
	billboard.Name = "FighterGui"

	textlabel.Parent = billboard
	textlabel.BackgroundTransparency = 1
	textlabel.Visible = true
	textlabel.Font = Enum.Font.Arcade
	textlabel.TextScaled = true
	textlabel.Size = UDim2.new(0, 200 , 0, 50)
	textlabel.Name = "LabelFighter"
	textlabel.Text = "Earthraphobic2 it's working"
end)

[Earthraphobic2]

Now the textlabel isn’t in the billboard gui

[PurpleHorseMint]

yah it is - you need to change the StudsOffset as in my example