Badge overhead text only showing when player respawns

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#1

I have a overhead gui that works fine, but I’ve made it so if a player owns a badge it will show a text saying “early tester” but it only shows if the player dies (sometimes but rarely it will show without dying)

Let me also add that it’s in a place connected to a game (the game is the main menu and you select maps which is the places)

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Here is the OverheadGui Script V

local Players = game:GetService("Players")

local rankInformation = require(script.RankInformation)

local connections = {}
local overHeadTemplate = script.OverheadGui

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function (player)
	connections[player] = player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function (character)
		local newOverhead = overHeadTemplate:Clone()
		
		newOverhead.PlayerName.Text = player.Name
		
		for _, info in pairs (rankInformation) do
			local isPlayerInDivision = player:IsInGroup(info.groupId)
			
			if isPlayerInDivision then
				newOverhead.Group.Text = info.name
				newOverhead.Group.TextColor3 = info.color
				newOverhead.Group.Visible = true
				
				newOverhead.Rank.Text = player:GetRoleInGroup(info.groupId)
				newOverhead.Rank.Visible = true
			end
		end
		
		character:WaitForChild("Humanoid").DisplayDistanceType = Enum.HumanoidDisplayDistanceType.None
		newOverhead.Parent = character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")
	end)
end)


local BadgeService = game:GetService("BadgeService")
local Players = game:GetService("Players")

local badgeID = 2124845563  -- Change this to your badge ID

local connections = {}
local overHeadTemplate = script.OverheadGui

local function onPlayerAdded(player)
	-- Check if the player has the badge
	local success, hasBadge = pcall(function()
		return BadgeService:UserHasBadgeAsync(player.UserId, badgeID)
	end)

	-- If there's an error, issue a warning and exit the function
	if not success then
		warn("Error while checking if player has badge!")
		return
	end

	if hasBadge then

		overHeadTemplate.Tester.Visible = true -- this shows the text
	end
end

-- Connect "PlayerAdded" events to the "onPlayerAdded()" function
Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(onPlayerAdded)


Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function (player)
	if connections[player] then
		connections[player]:Disconnect()
		connections[player] = nil
	end
end)

Here is the RankInformation Module script

return {
	{
		name = "Zentryte",
		color = Color3.fromRGB(0, 170, 255),
		groupId = 3371398
	},
	{
		name = "name",
		color = Color3.fromRGB(255, 0, 0),
		groupId = 0
	}
}

Please let me not I did not make this script cause I’m basic at scripting lol not the greatest but learning.

I used this video for the over head gui-> Rank Overhead GUI - ROBLOX - YouTube

then I used this to help me with showing the text - > BadgeService:UserHasBadgeAsync

just strange why it wont always show when the player joins only when they die it shows?

Maybe there is a way to instantly kill the player and instantly spawn them back when they join and it wont kill them again? only when they join idk

thx!

#2

You didn’t mention errors produced (or not) in output by your code. It can help a lot.

#3

There are no errors, It only shows after resetting.

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#4

This piece of code is questionable:

local function onPlayerAdded(player)
	-- Check if the player has the badge
	local success, hasBadge = pcall(function()
		return BadgeService:UserHasBadgeAsync(player.UserId, badgeID) or true
	end)

	-- If there's an error, issue a warning and exit the function
	if not success then
		warn("Error while checking if player has badge!")
		return
	end

	if hasBadge then

		overHeadTemplate.Tester.Visible = true --// mistake
	end
end

In this function everything is fine, expect one thing - the script makes the Tester label stored in that script visible if any player with the badge joins your game. Why this task is not performed on a new, cloned overhead GUI, like earlier in the script? I mean this piece of code:

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function (player)
	connections[player] = player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function (character)
		local newOverhead = overHeadTemplate:Clone() --// I mean this

		newOverhead.PlayerName.Text = player.Name

		for _, info in pairs (rankInformation) do
			local isPlayerInDivision = player:IsInGroup(info.groupId) or true

			if isPlayerInDivision then
				newOverhead.Group.Text = info.name
				newOverhead.Group.TextColor3 = info.color
				newOverhead.Group.Visible = true

				newOverhead.Rank.Text = player:GetRoleInGroup(info.groupId)
				newOverhead.Rank.Visible = true
			end
		end

		character:WaitForChild("Humanoid").DisplayDistanceType = Enum.HumanoidDisplayDistanceType.None
		newOverhead.Parent = character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")
	end)
end)
#5

Shouldn’t you be parenting the overhead text to the character’s Head and not the HumanoidRootPart?

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#6

No. You can check it in Roblox Studio. Overhead Gui - Roblox. This is a game version of Rank Overhead GUI - ROBLOX - YouTube and @Zentryte was following this tutorial. In this work this can be seen (piece of code):

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function (player)
	connections[player] = player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function (character)
		local newOverhead = overHeadTemplate:Clone()
		
		newOverhead.PlayerName.Text = player.Name
		
		for _, info in pairs (rankInformation) do
			local isPlayerInDivision = player:IsInGroup(info.groupId)
			
			if isPlayerInDivision then
				newOverhead.Group.Text = info.name
				newOverhead.Group.TextColor3 = info.color
				newOverhead.Group.Visible = true
				
				newOverhead.Rank.Text = player:GetRoleInGroup(info.groupId)
				newOverhead.Rank.Visible = true
			end
		end
		
		character:WaitForChild("Humanoid").DisplayDistanceType = Enum.HumanoidDisplayDistanceType.None
		newOverhead.Parent = character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart") -- parenting to root part
	end)
end)

I also prefer parenting to player’s head, but this also works.

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