A GUI that activates a billboard gui

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#1

Is it possible to make a GUI that, when pressed, activates a bunch of billboard guis, then when clicked again they will go invisible.

If anyone knows how to make something like that please let me know.

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#2

Let me test something out :slight_smile:

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#3

Do what you need to do, godspeed.

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#4 
local Billboards = workspace.Billboards -- Location of the billboards
local button = script.Parent -- The button
local Open = false -- Debounce
button.MouseButton1Click:connect(function()
	if Open == false then -- If the debounce is false (Closed)
		Open = true -- Make it true (Open)
		for _, v in ipairs(Billboards:GetChildren()) do -- Gets the Billboards variable children
			v.Enabled = true -- Changes all them to be enabled
		end
	else -- The below code basically does the opposite of above
		Open = false
		for _, v in ipairs(Billboards:GetChildren()) do
			v.Enabled = false
		end
	end
end)

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I have my billboards located in workspace using Adornee which you can read about here if you don’t know how to use it
http://wiki.roblox.com/index.php?title=API:Class/BillboardGui – This includes the other billboard Gui properties as well :slight_smile:
That should work :slight_smile:

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#5

Thank you very much, I have a question about this, is that script supposed to be in a gui or in the workplace.

#6

In a textbutton in a gui, is what I did it in. But you can change this easy.

#7

I tried that but when I click the GUI the Billboard gui doesn’t disappear.

Did I do something wrong?

#8 
local Billboards = workspace.Billboards -- Location of the billboards
local button = script.Parent -- The button
local Open -- when you declare a variable, it sets the value to nil
button.MouseButton1Click:connect(function()
	Open = not Open -- Make Open the opposite of what it currently is (nil -> true, true -> false, false -> true)
	for _, v in pairs(Billboards:GetChildren()) do -- Gets the Billboards variable children
		v.Enabled = Open -- Changes all of them to what open is
	end
end)

you can clean that up quite a bit (it’s the same code, but less lines)

Also, you shouldn’t be using scripts in the playergui, only localscripts. The playergui runs on the client; scripts are server sided. (it’ll work in play solo, but not in a live game)

Your problem as to why it isn’t working is that the folder in the workspace isn’t named “Billboards”, that’s what the first line the script looks for.

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#9

Yeah, I used a local script c:

#10

Thank you it worked!