How do I do this?

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#1

Basically I have seen many plugins that have text appear on the screen without an actual widget, Such as this one animation plugin

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How does one do this? Cause I must know

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The current thread cannot access '....' (lacking capability Plugin)
#2

Plugins in roblox studio use the same GUI elements as you are referring to, they are just not visible in the workspace.

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#3

One way for a plugin to put text on the screen is to create a ScreenGui within game.CoreGui

#4

I see. Is there a doc for this? I know nothing about core gui ngl

#5

CoreGui | Documentation - Roblox Creator Hub

#6

Here is coregui’s documentation: CoreGui | Documentation - Roblox Creator Hub
However, for your use case you can treat it same as StarterGui.

#7

So like I just parent the gui to coregui? Simple enough

#8

Yup, that’s all there is to it. Keep in mind that only plugin scripts may access coregui or anything inside of it.

#9

Wait how do I access coregui? I looked at the doc but couldnt figure it out

#10

You can access CoreGui via game.CoreGui or game:GetService(“CoreGui”)

#11

Plugins have the same permissions regular scripts to, in fact: their permissions are elevated.
Usually, this would be stored in CoreGui: which you can access by going to file > studio settings > scroll down to the “Explorer” section and find “Show Hidden Objects in Explorer”, “Show Core GUI in Explorer while Playing”, and “Show pluginGUI service in Explorer”. Check these 3 boxes and hit close, not the x. Now, restart studio and it should show.

#12

I am PRETTY sure CoreGui is locked to Studio scripts

#13

That is what I said. By “only plugin scripts may access coregui” I meant that only plugin scripts, not studio scripts, can access coregui. If you try to access coregui with a studio script you will get the error “The current thread cannot access ‘CoreGui’ (lacking capability Plugin).”

#14

I was just clarifying for him, as you said it after which made it sound like you can still access it with that.

#15

Place it in a ScreenGui in CoreGui upon plugin initialization.

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