Black Screen Script Not Working

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#1

I’m currently attempting to make a script that detects when a player touches a specific part it turns your screen black, waits 2 seconds, and then kills you. I finished making the script but it doesn’t work in any way at all. I’m wondering exactly why the script does not work and how I would go about fixing it.

Script:

local shadow = script.Parent

shadow.Touched:Connect(function(hit)

	if hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") == true then

		print("Player has touched shadow")

		local Gui = game.Players.LocalPlayer.PlayerGui.Void
		Gui.Enabled = true
		wait(2)
		local Humanoid = game.Players.LocalPlayer.Character.Humanoid
		local Health = Humanoid.Health
		Health = 0

	end
end)

Edit: Got the script working with the help of VoidedBlades and MediaHQ. Thank You for the help!

I had to change the == value to ~= and move the script into starter player scripts Final Result:

local shadow = game.Workspace.TheShadow

shadow.Touched:Connect(function(hit)

if hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") ~= nil then

print("Player has touched shadow")

local Gui = game.Players.LocalPlayer.PlayerGui.Void
Gui.Enabled = true
wait(2)
local Humanoid = game.Players.LocalPlayer.Character.Humanoid
Humanoid.Health = 0

end
	end)
#2

FindFirstChild returns an instance or nil, not a boolean. that’s where it doesn’t pass through.

You can fix this by changing the == true to ~= nil or just remove == true completely.

Alongside of this it’s not efficient to make a seperate value for a reference to Humanoid.Health, instead just adjust it from the Humanoid value you’ve created as Humanoid.Health = 0

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#3

LocalPlayer can only be used in LocalScripts, so you’ll have to create a LocalScript to handle the Touched event. You can use Humanoid | Roblox Creator Documentation for the LocalPlayer’s character to detect when it has touched the specific part.

If you want to stick with using a server script, another option is to use Players | Roblox Creator Documentation when finding the player that touched the part, and then setting their ScreenGui to Enabled

#4

I’ve changed the script to what is shown below but it seems like it still doesn’t work, is there a reason for this?

local shadow = script.Parent

shadow.Touched:Connect(function(hit)

if hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") ~= nil then

print("Player has touched shadow")

local Gui = game.Players.LocalPlayer.PlayerGui.Void
Gui.Enabled = true
wait(2)
local Humanoid = game.Players.LocalPlayer.Character.Humanoid
Humanoid.Health = 0

end
	end)
#5

Is this in a localscript or a normal script? You can also get the player using

local player = game:GetService("Players"):GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent)

Like what @mymommakesbathbombs4 explained

#6

The script is currently a Local Script that is under the part that the player is to touch

#7

Localscripts can’t run in the workspace. Try setting the parent of the localscript to one of the following below

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https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/class/LocalScript

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#8

I’m not 100% sure how to go about doing this but I attempted to use the method with what I know and came up with what’s shown below but this also doesn’t seem to work

local shadow = script.Parent
local Humanoid = game.Players.LocalPlayer.Character.Humanoid

Humanoid.Touched:Connect(function(hit)

if hit == shadow then

		print("Player has touched shadow")

		local Gui = game.Players.LocalPlayer.PlayerGui.Void
		Gui.Enabled = true
		wait(2)
		local Humanoid = game.Players.LocalPlayer.Character.Humanoid
		Humanoid.Health = 0

end

end)
#9

Try putting the LocalScript in the ScreenGui, and change the path for local shadow to its correct location. You might want to use WaitForChild() for local shadow as well

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#10

Instead of creating a script for each player why don’t you just have 1 script in the actual kill part?