Help with referring to a far away part

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#1

Hello everyone! I have a big question. How do I refer to a far away part?

Lets say I have a part in the workspace with a click detector in it. Then I also have a screen gui with a text label inside of the starter gui. Now when I click the click doctor it will make the text label visible. But I don’t know how to refer to it that far.

if game.Worspace.Part:FindFirstChild("Click Detector").MouseClick:Connect(function()
    script.Parent.TextLabel.Visible = true
end)

heres the issue I believe. Im using the term FindFirstChild wrong I think. Is there a way to make this work?

Thanks,
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#2

Hello!
I would like to understand what do you mean with a “far away part”? Are you talking about a part that is physically far away from the player?

There are several issues with your code, I will write them down here.

  • Unless you manually named the ClickDetector, “Click Detector” will not be a child of your part.
  • I assume this is a LocalScript. Otherwise, you are trying to modify a GUI object using a Server script, which is a bad practice.
  • You are first looking for the child named Click Detector using a conditional statement. By immediately after connecting a function to its “MouseClick” event, it becomes useless. You should first make sure the Child of the given name exists, and, if and only if it does, connect the function!
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#3

hi. So well I’m not actually referring to like a object that is far away. Sorry if I confused you! Like in the explorer.

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how do I refer to the click detector from the script in the screen gui?

Also im not sure I understand the problems with my script. Can you help me understand it?

Also I’m using a server script since I want it to affect the whole server.

#4

I think what you are trying to do is

local ClickDetector = script.Parent.ClickDetector

referencing paths of Instances is one of the first thing you learn in scripting
so I highly recommend you watch this beginner series by AlvinBlox

#5

In this code provided there are multiple things wrong

  • first you are hooking an event inside an if statement which doesn’t make sense
  • second there is no Instance called “Click Detector” in part
  • third as @Salinas23 said you should be changing the UI on the client using Remote Events, but doing it on the server will work
#6

the script is inside of the screen gui. Not the part. The script the part is another script.

#7

I see. Referencing the Instance would then be

local ClickDetector = workspace.Part.ClickDetector

Also you should fix the things I mentioned in the earlier post

#8

Well, the server does not even need access to a player’s Gui. You can use a LocalScript inside the Part if you want, and every time a player clicks the part, their gui comes up.

#9

okay. Is there a way to do that?

#10

Yes indeed!

Instead of using a regular script, use a local script instead.

#11

okay! What should the script be inside of it?

#12

I believe looking from the other posts:

local ClickDetector = workspace.Part:WaitForChild("ClickDetector")

ClickDetector.MouseClick:Connect(function()
    script.Parent.TextLabel.Visible = true
end)

Also a slight explanation, but the reason why a Server Script won’t work is because the changes are actually being made across the server-side, and not the client side (Or what you see on your screen) If you change it to a LocalScript, you should be all set

#13

okay! This works thank you! Also thanks for the explanation!