Gui only the devs see

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#1

In a game I am making on roblox, I want to add a button GUI/text button that only the devs can see. I tried doing

Local server=if plr = (Ninja_Justin3) than screen GUI = true
if not = false
end
end

This script above is for me

Local server=If plr = (iiKloee) than screen GUI = true
if not = false
end
end

This script is for my cousin aka the other dev.

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#2

Use a while true do loop;

local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
while true do
     wait()
     if player.Name == "(name of player here) "  then
          script.Parent.Visible = true
    end
end
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#3

create a dictionary with all the developers user ids, and when a player joins check if their user id is in that dictionary, if it is clone a gui into their player gui

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#4

Use the player added event and utilize a list, it’ll look something like this:

local validPlrs = {"Player1", "Player2"}
  
-- I was too lazy to actually implement the onPlayerAdded but you get the jist of it
onPlayerAddedEvent:Connect(function(player)
  if validPlrs[player.Name] then
     -- Make gui visible here
  end
end)

You don’t need a server script for making gui’s visible, but you’ll need it if you wanna make the gui safe, in case it has admin commands and such.

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#5

i dont understand why it’d need to be a while true do loop, this should suffice:

local player = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer

if player.Name == "username" then
    script.Parent.Visible = true
end

EDIT:
or even better… :

local player = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer

if player.UserId == 144029154 then --this is my id, put your own id here
    script.Parent.Visible = true
end
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#6

Do a server script and place the gui inside of it, this makes it more secure, then use this code:

local frame = script.GuiName --replace with your gui name

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)

if player.UserId == 0 then --replace 0 with the dev user id 
frame:Clone.Parent = player.PlayerGui
end
end)
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#7

this is actually a lot better than my method as any player could execute a script that makes it visible if they were exploiting for my method, but it’s not possible for this method. :smiley:

#8

but how do i make it so it knows what GUI i mean

#9

Shouldn’t be an infinite loop, you only need to check when they join.

#10

Let’s say for example the GUI was in the workspace
You would change the variable to a GUI in the workspace.

local frame = game.Workspace.GUI

#11

Replace the GuiName thing with ur GUI and make sure it’s in the script

#12

ok thanks so basicaly what you mean is for the script I put

script.DevControlPlace.Gui etc?

#13

That would crash because there is no wait() in the loop.

#14

Just put the gui with the frames in the same one last the button if you know what I mean then it should work

#15

Yes, obviously there should be a wait. That was a mistake on my part

#16

i think I understand but what do you mean by “name” of the GUI?

#17

The you named you GUI in the explorer, copy the name in there

#18

also, you wouldn’t need a loop anyways as the username is set once, doesn’t change, and could just be checked once and then that script can be ignored. a lot of other examples done this where it was esentially the same code as you apart from there was no while true() do loop

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#19

The name of the gui like what holds the frames

#20

You should do something like this:

--start a function when a player joins
game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player) 
-- checking the UserId
	if (player.UserId == put id here) then
		-- run code
	end
end)

Pretty sure this should be done through a LocalScript, but correct me if I’m wrong.

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