Help with changing text based on player location

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#1

Hello there! I’m trying to make a Screen Gui with a text label that changes when the player has stepped on a part.
First, when they join the game, the text will automatically say something, but I want to make it so that once they step on a different part, the text changes to something else.
I’ve tried a local script on my frame that makes it so that it displays text on the frame when the player joins, but I’m not sure if it’s possible to make it so that the text label changes when the player steps onto a different part.

local text = "Hello there, continue on the path to start your mission."
for  i = 1, #text do
        script.Parent.TextLabel.Text = string.sub (text, 1, i)
	wait ()
end

local text = "Make a choice on where you will go."
for  i = 1, #text do
        script.Parent.TextLabel.Text = string.sub (text, 1, i)
	wait ()
end

I would like to know what I would need to do in order for the second part of the script activates when a part is touched by the player. You don’t need to provide a script for me.

#2

This is a very common usage for the Touched event. If you listen to the Touched event of the part you want, you can check if there is a player touching the part and if that player is the LocalPlayer using something like this:

local players = game:GetService("Players")
PART.Touched:Connect(function(touchPart)
    if touchPart.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then -- If the part touched is a character
        local player = players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(touchPart.Parent)
        if player and player == players.LocalPlayer then -- If the character belongs to a player and is the LocalPlayer
            -- Run your code to change the text
        end
    end
end)
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#3

@Increated’s method would work but I would not recommend using touched events on the clients and by client, I mean that you cannot use LocalPlayer in a serverScript, instead, use remote events, they are used to call the server and the client to do stuff like print something because before with filtering enabled off, hackers can just write in a normal script:

-- Hacker will type
part.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
     if hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
        -- Give money
    end
end)

and everyone will see the money and the hacker can buy everything, but with filtering enabled on, if the hacker does the same thing, people cannot see the changes and the money will be the same (by that I mean not change) on the server, hence, he cannot buy anything, first you have to insert a remote event in a place where both a local script and a script can reach, like ReplicatedStorage, name it whatever, and then put a script into a part and type the traditional touch event:

part.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
     if hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
       
    end
end)

but instead of going into the PlayerGui (I don’t even think you can access it in a normal script), we need to “Fire the client”, I will explain this later but type

part.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
     if hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
       game.ReplicatedStorage.YourRemoteEventHere:FireClient()
    end
end)

but if you run this, it would give an error, it is because the remote event does not know which player (client) to fire to, so the first parameter will be the player, assuming you already know the GetPlayerFromCharacter event, (if not then check it out here)
so because the hit.Parent will be a plr because it has a humanoid, but it can also be npc’s, so maybe you can check if the player for it exists with an if statement, and we can also “pass” the text, so type this:

part.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
     if hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
       local plr = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent)
       game.ReplicatedStorage.YourRemoteEventHere:FireClient(plr,"Yourtexthere") -- this can have infinite arguments that you can "pass" to the client like the text
    end
end)

then you can have a localscript in StarterGui or the gui where you want the text to type in, for now, I will put it in the gui textlabel where you want to put your text in

local typeLabel = script.Parent
local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer

game.ReplicatedStorage.YourRemoteEvent.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(passedText) -- The first parameter is the text you passed from the script, but you might be thinking that we sent two parameters, so it's because the first parameter of the player will not be passed because it's used to know who to fire the client, (and we can get it through localPlayer)
     if passedText then
          typeLabel.Text = passedText
          wait(2)
          typeLabel.Text = ""
    end
end)

we are done, but keep it in mind that if you are firing the client or all clients, you need remoteEvent.OnClientEvent, but if you are firing the server, from the client, you need to do onServerEvent, and the OnServerEvent has the first parameter of player, not the fire, but the event itself, :smiley:

Edit: you can also put the string.sub in the client Event, just like in the server

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#4

Why use an infinite loop?

Perhaps think of using something like wait(0.1) instead.