Hello, I am currently working on a horror game. I need help with something. Basically, when a player goes through a part (non collide), I want the gui with my script from before(typewriting) to appear in the same place as before but starts typing a new text. However once the player goes through that part once I want it to not activate the gui again and only play all of the setTexts once.
My current script that plays the very first 3 typewriting setTexts
If I understood you correctly:
You want a player to go through a part, a GUI popup will appear with text only once?
And check if the player has already triggered it before to show different text?
Let me know if i didn’t.
yes the GUI to appear, however I mean to check that the player has triggered it once so all the setTexts don’t repeat again and so the GUI doesn’t appear again I can just disable the visibility of it
That’s not a good answer. I guess he asked for help here not on youtube. If you don’t know how to help someone instead of talking nonsense just keep quiet.
Okay so, if you want to achieve a simple popup GUI I recommend measuring the distance from the player to part every few seconds. If the distance is smaller than the minimal proximity make the GUI appear, also remember about making a new variable called for ex. debounce, set it to false at the beginning of the code.
This variable will change later to true when the player has reached the proximity of the part, so we’ll know that the player has already walked through it.
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local Player = Players.LocalPlayer
local Character = Player.Character or Player.CharacterAdded:Wait() -- so we know that the player character has been loaded.
local ScreenGui = Player.PlayerGui:WaitForChild("ScreenGui")
local TextLabel = script.Parent
local TriggerPart = workspace:WaitForChild("Trigger part name")
local Proximity = 10
local Debounce = false
function setText(text)
if typeof(text)=="string"then else warn("Argument[1] is not a string.") return false end
for i = 1,#text do
TextLabel.Text = string.sub(text,1,i)
end
return true
end
while wait(.1) do
local Distance = (Character.HumanoidRootPart.Position-TriggerPart.Position).Magnitude
if Distance < Proximity then
if not Debounce then
print("Player is close! Let's do it.")
Debounce = true
ScreenGui.Enabled = true
setText("some text")
end
end
end
Customize it so it fits your needs.
Might not work haven’t checked!
Although .Touched event sometimes can have the text/frame glitching and it’ll look as if stuttering. I’m not sure if a table is needed, but what you can do is set the object CanCollide = true and flatten it out as if it were part of the floor, Transparency of the part set to “1”. Next, disable the localscript so when a player collides with part, it inserts the localscript/enables the localscript itself.
Keep in mind, you’ll have to make a table like this:
local myTable = {game.Workspace.Players.LocalPlayer}
Hope this helped, and if this didn’t work, I’ll see into it myself considering I am also working on something a bit similar as you!
It’s okay i understand that, but there are alot of different ways making the gui appear
You can use .Touched and .TouchEnded (which is not recommended due to it’s bugginess)
You can use Render Stepped and Magnitude (this is recommended)
Render Stepped is like .Touched but not buggy i guess, and magnitude the distance in studs before the gui dissapears,
You can use Region3’s which i don’t recommend for your situation… I don’t know if they are the best because region3’s are through a server script and gui’s are never recommended to do on a server script…
RenderStepped and Magnitude Method (Recommended!)
Make the gui/frame invisible
Put the local script inside the gui/frame
Make a triggerPart in workspace and make it invisible, anchored and collidable
local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local char = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local rs = game:GetService("RunService")
rs.RenderStepped:Connect(function()
local toCompare = (char:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart").Position - game.Workspace.YOUR_TRIGGER_PART.Position).Magnitude
if toCompare <= 3 then -- Change the "3" to the preferred Value of distance
local guiFrame = script.Parent
button.Visible = true
else
local guiFrame = script.Parent
button.Visible = false
end
end)
Region3 Method (not recommended)…
Make a region part (like a hitbox for your whole trigger area)
Put a normal script inside it
Put this inside
local RegionPart = script.Parent
local pos1 = RegionPart.Position - (RegionPart.Size / 2)
local pos2 = RegionPart.Position + (RegionPart.Size / 2)
local region = Region3.new(pos1, pos2) -- This calculates the corner 1 of the trigger area and 2 and makes it a region
local player
game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
end)
while true do
wait(0.1)
local code = "unshow"
game.ReplicatedStorage.someEvent:FireClient(player, code)
local partsInRegion = workspace:FindPartsInRegion3(region, nil, 1000)
for i, part in pairs(partsInRegion) do
if part.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") ~= nil then
local char = part.Parent
local player = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(char)
if player then
local code = "show"
game.ReplicatedStorage.someEvent:FireClient(player, code)
end
end
end
end
-- Make a Local script
local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
game.ReplicatedStorage.someEvent.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(code)
local gui = game.ReplicatedStorage.Gui:Clone() -- Make sure the "gui" is a screen gui
gui.Parent = player.PlayerGui -- if it's a frame rather than screen gui, just do player.PlayerGui.ScreenGui
if code == "show" then
gui.Visible = true
elseif code == "unshow" then
gui.Visible = false
end
end)
The RenderStepped method is recommended and way easier, if i didn’t cover something just mention it because i got way into this as i was writing it…
If you wanna use the Region3 method, please just make sure you’re doing it correctly and knowing what you’re doing because there’s some bugs there aswell and are weird to patch so yeah, i recommend you the renderstepped method
