How do I make sure the player is visually seeing a GUI right when they join the game

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How do I make sure the player is visually seeing a GUI right when they join the game

The Problem:

So what I’m trying to achieve is making it so that when the player joins they experience a black screen (GUI). After that, a GUI animation should trigger. To show my precision, I want the black screen to be visible right after this screen (picture below) will fade out (or before it fades out if possible). I know I can just have it enabled in the properties tab before starting the game but then how will I know when to trigger the GUI animation.

But yeah I really don’t exactly know when to play the GUI animation, I’m not sure when this screen is gone or if I will be playing the animation too late (after it’s been gone for a while). Maybe after the character has loaded?? I’m not sure.

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What I need:

What the player should see at the start should be a black screen (from a GUI) and NOT just their character and the world (due to the GUI not loading or not being triggered at the correct time). And after that the GUI animation should play.

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just adding this message here so my post gets put back at the top

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use

game.ReplicatedFirst:RemoveDefaultLoadingScreen()

then wait until the player’s character loads (player.characteradded) – I’m not sure if this is the exact timing that you want

then play your animation

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Should I use :Connect() or :Wait() for the characteradded function??

What if I don’t want to make a function using :Connect() and just use :Wait(), I heard :Wait() method wasn’t the most efficient and can break at times, what if I wrap it in a pcall? will that fix the problem?

Or should I use :Connect() as my approach

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Check if player.character already exists then use player.characteradded:Wait() if it doesn’t, otherwise you can just load it

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How do you prefer I do this bit? Doesn’t characteradded:Wait() already take care of the problem, or am I just misreading the post?

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if the character loaded before the function characteradded:Wait(), the function will run after the character is reloaded again (this just causes glitches and problems)

it’s because characteradded:Wait() waits until a new character is made without checking if the player character already exists

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ah I see, thank you so much! Looks like everything is resolved then.

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