Help with team-only overhead tags (Client)

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#1

I’m just simply trying to make these TextLabels (which are inside of BillboardGUIs which are located in every player’s character’s head) show on everyone who is on YOUR team. (So you can see where your teammates are across the map). They don’t show for the other team(s) though. I also want it to constantly update incase a player switches teams or something. Please help! I’ve tried so many things. Here’s my LocalScript which is inside of StarterPlayerScripts:

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

local function AddTags()
	for _, v in pairs(players:GetPlayers()) do
		if v.Team == player.Team then
			playercharacters = game.Workspace:FindFirstChild(v.Name)

			if playercharacters then
				local head = playercharacters:WaitForChild("Head")
				if head then
					local teamTag = head:WaitForChild("TeamTag") -- billboardGUI
					if teamTag then
						local arrow = teamTag:WaitForChild("Arrow") -- Text label
						if arrow then
							arrow.Visible = true
						else
							warn("Arrow not found for player: " .. v.Name)
						end
					else
						warn("TeamTag not found for player: " .. v.Name)
					end
				else
					warn("Head not found for player: " .. v.Name)
				end
			end
		end
	end
end

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
	if plr == player then
		AddTags()
	end

	plr.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(char)
		if plr == player then
			AddTags()
		end
	end)
end)

Thanks!

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#2

Here ya go! It’s kind of spaced weird because I typed this out instead of coding it. But what you did wrong was, formatting. It was formatted kind of wonky, tell me how it goes…

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

local function AddTags(plr, char)
local head = char:WaitForChild("Head")
local teamTag = head:WaitForChild("TeamTag")
local arrow = teamTag:WaitForChild("Arrow") 
if not arrow then
warn("No arrow found!")
end
if not teamTag then
warn("No teamTag found!")
end
if not head then
warn("No head found!")
end
		if plr.Team == player.Team then
arrow.Visible = true
else
arrow.Visible = false
		end
end

for _, v in pairs(players:GetPlayers()) do --Scans to see all current players in the game when the local player joins
	local scannedChar = game.Workspace:WaitForChild(v.Name)
if v.Name ~= player.Name then
AddTags(v, scannedChar)
end
	end

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr) --Continues to find the teams of new players joining
plr.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(char) 
			AddTags(plr, char)
	end)
end)
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#4

It works at first, but when i die, it sometimes shows the arrow for the opposing teammates.

#5

Try this

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

local function updateTagVisibility(plr)
    local character = plr.Character or plr.CharacterAdded:Wait()
    local head = character:WaitForChild("Head", 5) -- Add a timeout to avoid infinite waits
    if not head then return end

    local teamTag = head:FindFirstChild("TeamTag")
    if not teamTag then return end

    local arrow = teamTag:FindFirstChild("Arrow")
    if not arrow then return end

    if plr.Team == player.Team then
        arrow.Visible = true
    else
        arrow.Visible = false
    end
end

local function onPlayerAdded(plr)
    plr.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(character)
        updateTagVisibility(plr)
    end)

    plr:GetPropertyChangedSignal("Team"):Connect(function()
        if plr.Character then
            updateTagVisibility(plr)
        end
    end)
end

for _, otherPlayer in ipairs(players:GetPlayers()) do
    if otherPlayer ~= player then
        onPlayerAdded(otherPlayer)
        if otherPlayer.Character then
            updateTagVisibility(otherPlayer)
        end
    end
end

players.PlayerAdded:Connect(onPlayerAdded)
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