BillboardGui: it works well only if parented to character, not to its head

[geppozrulez]

Hi guys, how are you? This is my first post here and I hope that I’ll be able to fix my issue.
I’m trying to create a billboard parented to player’s head but it does not work: I’m only able to parent it directly on character. This is my simple code:

-- script inside Workspace

local player = game:GetService("Players").PlayerAdded:Wait()
local character = player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local head = character:WaitForChild("Head")
local billboard = Instance.new("BillboardGui")
local textlabel = Instance.new("TextLabel")
billboard.Size = UDim2.new(0,100,0,70)
billboard.SizeOffset = Vector2.new(0,1)
textlabel.Size = UDim2.new(1,0,1,0)
textlabel.Text = "LOREM IPSUM"
textlabel.Parent = billboard
billboard.Adornee = character
billboard.Parent = character

When billboard is parented to character, everything works fine and I can see the billboard object in Workspace, under the player model:

but when I change the last two code lines above in:

billboard.Adornee = head
billboard.Parent = head

billboard does not appear at all and there is nothing under player.Head and I do not get any error.

Where I’m making mistake?

I use Roblox Studio Version 0.511.0.5110267 (64bit) on Windows 10 Pro X64

Thanks in advance for any help

[NyrionDev (Nyrion)]

I was able to replicate the issue, a quick fix is to only set the .Adornee property to the player head:

billboard.Adornee = head 
billboard.Parent = character 

[Forummer]

Enable this.

[geppozrulez]

Thanks for the reply but this does not fix the issue about the fact that I’m not able to parent the billboard to player’e head.

[geppozrulez]

Thanks for the reply: something is changed. The strange thing is that with this change in the Adornee property nothing appears but print(billboard.Adornee) shows Head:

If I set Adornee on character I can see it correcty in the Adornee properties:

[NyrionDev (Nyrion)]

Try setting the Adornee after setting the parent:

billboard.Parent = character 
billboard.Adornee = head 

[geppozrulez]

I tried, same result. Could be a bug?