How do I create these types of notifications?

I have the UI for it, I just don’t know how to script it.
Basically every like 30 seconds the UI will show up at the top of the screen. Each message is different.

Reference:

Make a table containing al lthe messages you want to display and make a loop that every 30 seconds, display a message, you could make a check as well to determine if it’s the same message and if it is, generate again

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Create a table with the statements, and every 30 seconds, pick a random one to be shown.

Here’s an example I found in Scripting Helpers:
link: How do I get a random choice from a table? - Scripting Helpers

Code:

local table = {"Apple","Orange","String"} -- Items table.
 
local value = math.random(1,#table) -- Get random number with 1 to length of table.
local picked_value = table[value] -- Pick value from table
	 
print(tostring(picked_value)) -- Print picked value

If you wanted to apply this for your game you should do something like this:

local UI = your ui
local ListOfMessages = {"Msg1", "Msg2"}
local value = math.random(1,#table)
local picked_val  = table[value]

UI.Text = (tostring(picked_value)) --this line is really bad, you would probably want to modify it a lot

Edit: you should have a wait too

Hello, There I see you need help!

This is my way ( beginners )


while true do -- If you dont want the textlabel to loop then remove the while true do
	NotiText:TweenPosition(UDim2.new(0.3, 0,0.036, 0),"In","Back")  -- Change This if you want
	wait(5)
	NotiText:TweenPosition(UDim2.new(0.311, 0,1.02, 0),"In","Back")  
	wait(5)
	NotiText:TweenPosition(UDim2.new(0.3, 0,0.036, 0),"In","Back") 
	wait(5)
	NotiText.Text = "This game was scripted and built by NCSDeveloper1"
	NotiText.Text = "If your camera gets stuck in Mid-Air, make sure to reset! This bug will get resolve soon"
	wait(5)
	NotiText:TweenPosition(UDim2.new(0.311, 0,1.02, 0),"In","Back")
	NotiText.Text = "Welcome to Test Your Time 2! "
	NotiText.Text = "Take your time, no neeed to rush! "
	NotiText.Text = "Halo shop might be coming to the game!?" 
	wait(1)
	
	repeat until(100)
end
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Something like this would display the messages in the correct order and repeat forever.

local textLabel = ...
local messages = {
  "message1",
  "message2"
}

while true do
    for i,v in ipairs(messages) do 
        textLabel.Text = v
        wait(5) 
    end
end
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What exactly is this doing?
You’re doing an awful lot of unnecessary waits, but no waits between each text change, meaning the player won’t see some of the text.
Ref:

wait() is based on the player’s FPS, which means a laggy player will have a horrible UI experience if waits aren’t depended on deltatime etc.

A working solution would be something like this:

local NotificationText = TextLabel --define here
local Notifications = {[1] = "Notification1"; [2] = "Notification2"; [3] = "Notification 4";} --and so forth, don't forget to include the key in order
--let's assume you're doing all UI management inside one local script, we would need to use a coroutine to loop without infinitely yielding the current thread
local loopFunction = coroutine.wrap(function() --wrap in coroutine
	local count = 1
	while wait(60) do --note: NEVER depend on the player's framerate to yield scripts, use deltatime
		NotificationText.Text = Notifications[count] --would print out "Notification1" on the first loop
		if not Notifications[count] then
			count = 1 --if we reached the end of the notifications available, go back to 1
		else
			count += 1 --otherwise, carry on
		end
	end
end)

loopFunction() --should run in a separate thread and not interrupt your script

@RipPBB_TUB You're ignoring the fact that RNG can also pick the same thing sometimes. The same notification may be picked in a row. To counter this issue my solution uses keys in a dictionary to keep count of which notification it is on.
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Oh okay, I didn’t notice! thanks for alerting me. :grin:

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Yes, I was just giving a basic example, but you are correct, that could be a issue.

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Not sure why you would do it this way as @ducksandwifi said it is very unneeded/unorganized. (Not trying to hate if you think i’m hating)

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I’m honestly very confused. Everyone is giving me different scripts- :flushed:

Your good man! this is the easiest way for a beginner I’m guessing but there is a lot of way you can do it like using functions @ducksandwifi example