How Do I Make a Simulator Shop Pad that pops up a ScreenGui when stepped on?

[SIeepGoodTonight (SleepingDev)]

Hey Developers! I am trying to get the green pad (shown in photo) to pull up a ScreenGui when you step on it and when you walk off it the menu goes away. Thanks!

[Kittylitterking123]

Hello! I have some code that just might work! Insert this into a LocalScript inside of your Gui in StarterGui:

local TouchPart = game.Workspace.TouchPart -- Change this to wherever the part you want to touch is parented to.

TouchPart.Touched:Connect(function()
	script.Parent.YourGui.Visible = true --Change "YourGui" to whatever the GUI you want to appear is named.
end)

TouchPart.TouchEnded:Connect(function()
	script.Parent.YourGui.Visible = false
end)

Hope this helps!

[SIeepGoodTonight (SleepingDev)]

It didn’t work and I followed all the steps, I have enabled the screengui and tried and disabled it and it still doesn’t seem to work?

[Herbz_Dev2106]

I would recommend looking at this topic, for some inspiration about the best way to go about doing this:

Issue with .Touched and .TouchEnded

Hey there! This may seem like a game design at first, but I will basically talk about what I want to do: If the player is in a specific region (an invisible part), it will open the GUI, if the person leaves said region, the GUI will close. It’s just a simple talk one at the moment, however there seems to be an issue with .Touched and .TouchEnded. When I jump, or rapidly leave and enter the part, the GUI starts not working properly. Not sure where to go about this. Really, it’s a simple script…

[7z99 (cody)]

That post is old, you can probably use an implementation using the spatial query api

[noblemaxx (monkeybaby)]

Or use zoneplus, spatial queries would be more of a headache

[Kittylitterking123]

I’m surprised it didn’t work, because it worked perfectly for me. Although, your way makes more sense.

[7538SAV]

I don’t know if you have already found a solution but, if not here is my mini tutorial😆:
(Now I am not the best at scripting so I know there are probably better ways to make this)

1. Make your Ui and put it in StarterGui. Here is my Ui for demonstration purposes:
   

   

2. Once your done editing the frame, shirnk its size down [my frame is shrinked down to: (0.025,0)(0.025,0)].

   Under the Ui frame, insert a local script and put this into it:

local Detector = game.Workspace:WaitForChild("Shop"):WaitForChild("detector") --Find the part that will open the shop
local CloseDistance = math.max(Detector.Size.X, Detector.Size.Z)
local CloseButton = script.Parent.Close --Close

local function tweenSize(object,goal,Time) --Make a tween function
	local tween = game:GetService("TweenService"):Create(object,TweenInfo.new(Time,Enum.EasingStyle.Quad),{Size = goal}) --Create a tween
	local db = false --Make a debounce
	if not db then
		db = true
		tween:Play()
		task.wait(Time+0.05) --Cool down time
		db = false
	end
	return tween
end

Detector.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
	if game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent) == game.Players.LocalPlayer then
		script.Parent.Parent.Enabled = true
		tweenSize(script.Parent,UDim2.fromScale(0.5,0.5),.5) --Remember the parameters we put in the function above? Insert the object your tweening, the size it will tween to, and the length of the tween
	end
end)

CloseButton.Activated:Connect(function() --A function for when the player clicks the close button
	tweenSize(script.Parent,UDim2.fromScale(0.025,0.025),.5)
	script.Parent.Parent.Enabled = false
end)

script.Parent.Parent.Enabled = false

script.Parent.Parent:GetPropertyChangedSignal("Enabled"):Connect(function() --A function to see if the player is inside the part
	while script.Parent.Parent.Enabled do
		task.wait(.05)
		if game.Players.LocalPlayer.Character then
			local HumanoidRootPart = game.Players.LocalPlayer.Character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")
			local mag = (HumanoidRootPart.Position-Detector.Position).Magnitude
			if mag >= CloseDistance + math.max(HumanoidRootPart.Size.X, HumanoidRootPart.Size.Z) and script.Parent.Parent.Enabled == true then
				tweenSize(script.Parent,UDim2.fromScale(0.025,0.025),.5) --Change to the size you want it to shrink down to
				script.Parent.Parent.Enabled = false
			end
		end
	end
end)

3. Test to see if it works
   

And here is the studio file:
SimulatorShopPad.rbxl (58.5 KB)

Hope this helps and happy developing!

[Herbz_Dev2106]

That post is only 3 years old, and can/could still be relevant for finding useful information about this topic.