How do I make a GUI only visible to a certain players name?

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#1

I looked all over youtube and all the videos are over a year old and none of them work either. Please help!

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#2

Handle the GUI giving on server side, and only give it to certain players.
Dont use the StarterGui service to place the GUI, keep it on ServerStorage, and by using a server side script clone it from there and give it to the specific players you want them to have it

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#3

Can you give an example? That didn’t make sense

#4

Have the gui in server storage.
When player joins check if their name is on list then clone the ui and put it in their playergui.

local ui = game:GetService("ServerStorage"):WaitForChild("UI")
local plrs = game:GetService("Players")

plrs.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
if table.find(list, plr.Name) then
ui:Clone().Parent = plr:WaitForChild("PlayerGui")
end
end)
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#5

Still not working and “list” is marked as error. Also where do I imput the players name

#6

The list is supposed to be a table of the authorized player names that see the gui.

aka, {“ortacise”, “BearQTS”}

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#7

yeah but where do I put the names for the table

#8

Why that didnt make sense?
@ortacise already provided an example of the approach I mentioned.

Dont use names, use the IDs
local list = {1234156156, 123546516, 156416546}

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#9

still doesn’t work, is the script supposed to be local? Is the script supposed to be in server storage, either in the screengui or out of it?

#10

Should be a server script in ServerScriptService, the GUI should be in ServerStorage

local ui = game:GetService("ServerStorage"):WaitForChild("UI")
local plrs = game:GetService("Players")

local list = {1234156156, 123546516, 156416546}

plrs.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
	if table.find(list, plr.UserId) then
		ui:Clone().Parent = plr:WaitForChild("PlayerGui")
	end
end)
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Is this correct?

#12

Yeah, but you are not referencing your Gui

local ui = game:GetService("ServerStorage"):WaitForChild("OutStageControls") -- here
local plrs = game:GetService("Players")

local list = {1234156156, 123546516, 156416546}

plrs.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
	if table.find(list, plr.UserId) then
		ui:Clone().Parent = plr:WaitForChild("PlayerGui")
	end
end)
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#13

Ohhhhh! That worked, thanks. I thought that “UI” was refering to StarterGUI, telling it to copy to there

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#14

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