Disabling character auto loads doesn't work with guis problem

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#1

So I’m making a combat game and for some reason I put the gui in screen gui and turned character auto loads and it won’t show?? Is there a way to work around this

Thanks :D

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#2

The character needs to be loaded for the game to load stuff from the StarterGui service. What you can do as an alternative is copy stuff from StarterGui to PlayerGui.

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#3

Like how would I do that? I tried before but nothing would pop up in player gui :/

#4

Does it instantly copy the StarterGui’s contents? If it does, you need to wait for all the gui to exist so they can properly be copied to the PlayerGui.

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#5

That’s literally the same thing. Whatever you put inside StarterGui will be copied to PlayerGui.

#6

Except it won’t load if the character isn’t spawned in. Did you not know that or?

#7

Alright I’ll try that and if it works I will mark as solved

#8

Still the same thing, it doesn’t matter if the auto load is false or true, the GUI will always load.

#9

I just mentioned this already. Did you just not read my post? The game refuses to load if the player service has CharacterAutoLoads set to false. You can research it.

#10

Okay, but your solution still won’t work since you mentioned to put everything in PlayerGui.

#11

Dude, the PlayerGui is loaded, but the StarterGui is NOT copied to the PlayerGui.

#12

No?

Every single GUI parented inside StarterGui will be copied to PlayerGui.

#13

It don’t work the script waits for 0.1 seconds and it don’t work still

#14

I will not be relying to you since you do not pay attention, maybe read my messages.

#15

Okay lol, it’s your problem for not cooperating.

@R41NB0W4C3 Why do you wanna disable character auto load? Couldn’t you just put the character somewhere else?

#16

Waiting for 0.1 seconds won’t give you accurate results all the time, because depending on the computer the StarterGui won’t load in that amount of time.

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#17

Cause I’m making a choose a character script and I want it to not load until you press a button

#18

Should I do like repeat until find first child or?

#19

You do realize you can put it somewhere far from the main lobby or game and put the character to the lobby right?

#20

When autoload is turned off, ui elements in StarterGui will not be pushed into PlayerGui. Instead you could push them yourself. A simple LocalScript in StarterPlayerScripts would work just fine:

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(funtion(player)
   for _, ui in pairs(game.StarterGui:GetChildren()) do
      local u = ui:Clone()
      u.Parent = player.PlayerGui
   end
end)

**Disclaimer: I do not know if this actually does work, I literally just wrote it now. All you have to do is loop through StarterGui then copy the assets into PlayerGui.

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