Changing a Players Billboard GUI

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#1

Hello,

  1. What do you want to achieve? When a player clicks with a tool it changes their billboard GUI text.

  2. What is the issue? No errors and nothing happens.

  3. What solutions have you tried so far? I have looked on the forums and tried messing around but nothing has worked.

  • Script inside of the tool. [LocalScript]
local tool = script.Parent
local event = game.ReplicatedStorage.KillzoneChanged

function toolused(plr)
	
	if plr:GetRankInGroup(6170760) >= 50 then
		event:FireServer(plr)
	else
		script.Parent:Destroy()
	end
	
end

tool.Activated:Connect(toolused)
  • Script in ServerScriptService [Script]
local event = game.ReplicatedStorage.KillzoneChanged

function changetext(plr)
	
	print("KillZone Change Recived")
	local text = plr.Character.Head.PlayerTag.KillTag.Text
	
	if text == "Killzone: Off" then
		text = "Killzone: On"
	elseif text == "Killzone: On" then
		text = "Killzone: Off"
	end
	
end

event.OnServerEvent:Connect(changetext)
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#2

Is the TextBox initially set to either Killzone: Off or Killzone: On? If not, it will never be true for either if statement.

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#3

It is set to a bunch of random letters.

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#4

Set the text to “Killzone: Off” and run it again.

#5

You can put all of this inside of the server script for convenience and security.

#6

What would that look like?

(not enough)

#7 
function changetext(plr)
	if plr:GetRankInGroup(6170760) >= 50 then
	print("KillZone Change Recived")
	local text = plr.Character.Head.PlayerTag.KillTag.Text
	
	if text == "Killzone: Off" then
		text = "Killzone: On"
	elseif text == "Killzone: On" then
		text = "Killzone: Off"
	end
else
script.Parent:Destroy()
	end
end

tool.Activated:Connect(changetext)

something like this.
Should work when you change the initial text in the textbox to “Killzone: Off”

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#8

How would I call the player and the tool?

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#9

Should be exactly the same as you were doing in the LocalScript.

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#10

You cant call the local player in a server script…

#11

I was talking about the tool.Activated passing the player.

#12

And there’s other solutions if you need it outside of the function which gets the player.

#13

Please don’t respond if you don’t know the answer.

#14

I haven’t worked with tools in a while so I assumed you were doing it correctly yourself.

The tool can only be activated if it’s equipped do you can just get the player by doing

local player = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(script.Parent.Parent)

or that other solution I qouted.
If you learn to read the script you can obviously tell it won’t do anything unless the text that is already in the TextBox is either “Killzone: Off” or “Killzone: On”.

	if text == "Killzone: Off" then
		text = "Killzone: On"
	elseif text == "Killzone: On" then
		text = "Killzone: Off"
	end
#15

Specify your variables correctly, please.
That is a bad practice, this is what it should look like:

task.wait()
local character = plr.Character or plr.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local head = character:WaitForChild("Head")
local Tag = head:FindFirstChild("PlayerTag")
local KillTag = tag:FindFirstChild("KillTag")
local text = tostring(KillTag.ContentText)
#16

Also, you can’t call a player using the tool.Activated event.
I suggest you do this in your LocalScript.

local tool = script.Parent
local event = game.ReplicatedStorage.KillzoneChanged

function toolused()
	local plr = game.Players.LocalPlayer
	
	if plr:GetRankInGroup(6170760) >= 50 then
		event:FireServer(plr)
	else
		script.Parent:Destroy()
	end
	
end

tool.Activated:Connect(toolused)
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#17

Perfectly fine if you expect no one to exploit in the game

#18

Not my problem, though.
The poster wants the answer, let the poster handle the ‘exploiter situation’.

#19

True though it was just a comment on the method OP was using.

#20

Responding like this is a sure-fire way for absolutely no-one to help you.