GUI Not Updating

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#1

Hey, I just made it so my game saves data. Now I’m trying to figure out how to get my GUI to update with this data rather than show what a new player would see.

For example, in the game when you level up it unlocks the ability to teleport to the next area.

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My character has levelled up to this point, but the GUI doesn’t recognize it.

I thought this would be a simple fix, but I can’t get it to work for some reason.
Here’s the code I’ve tried:

players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function()
if level >= 1 then
		MoonRod.Visible = true
		LOCKEDRod.Visible = false
		lockedTP.Visible = false
		CloudTP.AutoButtonColor = true
		board.TextLabel.Text = "Apprentice"
	end

These are all the things that should be updated when you level up. I first tried this code in my GuiScript (StarterGui > Main > GuiScript). When that didn’t work, I changed it to:

players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function()
player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function()
...yatta yatta

Still no luck. So I also tried both in StarterPlayerScripts because why not but that didn’t work either lol.

Anyone know how to fix this?

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#2

Are you using a local script or a server script? I don’t think you even need PlayerAdded in the script as you can simply get the local player and and check the level, then the script does the rest.

For example:

local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local level = player:WaitForChild("Level") -- not sure where 'Level' is exactly located

if level.Value >= 1 then -- checks if value of 'Level' is 1 or over
	-- runs the rest of the code
end
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#3

A local script, I just tried to do it on a a server script but can’t figure out how to grab the level value (wait for child just says ‘attempt to index nil’)

thanks for the tip on the PlayerAdded, I forgot you don’t actually need a function to make stuff happen! :joy:

edit: Actually running it on a local script like this under starterplayerscripts did work for the billboard gui I have on the player. The other gui still didn’t update though.

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#4

Also not sure I made it clear, the GUI works properly in a one sitting basis. If I level up the character through the game it all works properly.

The problem is getting it to recognize saved data when the player joins and updating accordingly.

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#5

What code do you have to make it work in one sitting? It should just be a case of the client script reading the value and running the same update function / logic as if the player just levelled up.

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#6

Well I have it all tied to a level up button

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When you click the button after loading in it does update everything properly. But obviously it’s not ideal to need to click that every time you load in.

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#7

Okay but what about the code that does that? I’m guessing you have a function connected to the activated event of the button. You may be able to just run that function once at the start

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#8

Oh, I see what you’re saying! Well it’s actually working properly now lol.

With my astounding negligence I didn’t try BabyNinjaTime’s corrected code at it’s original place in the gui script.

Thanks for the help!!

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