Gui Text Countdown Issue

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#1

  1. What do you want to achieve? I’m trying to script a countdown, that begins if another .Text value isn’t equal to “0/5” (meaning it starts whenever the .Text value changes to 1/5 and higher). I also want to make it start at 30 seconds and count down to 0. If the countdown ended (is at 0), then it will change the text to “Starting the game…”.

  2. What is the issue? It doesn’t really work, from what I tested it seems like it counts down only when I’m loading, not loaded yet. Because when I once took 3 seconds to load, the number was 27 and then it froze. When I loaded for 1 second, the number was 29.

  3. What solutions have you tried so far? I searched up topics at the Developer Forum, and even tried searching YouTube, but nothing really helped me.

This is the code I made:

local StartingIn1 = game.StarterGui.Lobby1Queue.Frame.StartingIn
local PlayerCount1 = game.StarterGui.Lobby1Queue.Frame.PlayerCount

while true do
	if PlayerCount1.Text ~= "0/5" then
		for i = 30, 1, -1 do
			StartingIn1.Text = "Starting in: "..i.." seconds"
			wait(1)

			if i == 0 then
				StartingIn1.Text = "Starting the game..."
			end
		end
	end
end
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#2

You do have a script which changes PlayerCount1.Text to “1/5” when you join, right? If not,
When you are loading, the text is probably “nil” so the script goes.
Once you are finished loading, the text returns to “0/5” and stops loading

#3

First of all, you don’t have a wait in that loop, meaning that your playtest session will instantly crash. Secondly, the countdown won’t activate until the PlayerCount1 text isn’t “0/5”, so you’ll need an external Script/LocalScript to change the PlayerCount's text.

Here’s a better script I devised for you. It utilizes practices that you may not be familiar with but it should work. All you need to do is define the variables at the top and create a NumberValue and define players as that. The script will run when you change the value of players.

local players = ... -- NumberValue

local playersLabel = ...
local statuslabel = ...

local con

local function count()
	con = task.defer(function()
		for i in 30, 1, -1 do
			statuslabel.Text = ("Starting in %i seconds"):format(i)
			task.wait(1)
		end
		
		statuslabel.Text = "Starting the game..."
	end)
end

players:GetPropertyChangedSignal("Value"):Connect(function()
	playersLabel.Text = ("%i/5"):format(players.Value)
	
	if players.Value <= 0 then
		if con == nil then return end
		task.cancel(con)
		con = nil
		
		return
	end
	
	count()
end)
#4

No, not on join, but when a player touches a part, yes, it changes to 1/5 and so on. (2/5, 3/5…)

#5

I forgot to mention; I already have an external script that changes the text to 1/5 and so on. Anyways, will try.

#6

Then yes, upon joining, your text will say “nil” for a few seconds before saying “0/5”
You could try disabling the script, and parenting another script under this script which waits like 2 seconds before enabling it.

And do add a wait() like @voozy_v said unless you want your game to die