How do I open a gui when a player is in proximity?

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#1

The game I’m working on this cannot use proximityprompts due to the way the camera works, but is there a way to do this? Like if the player touches an invisible part the GUI opens and then closes when the player leaves that invisible part?

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#2

You can open/close the GUI on touched events if that is what you’re asking. You can learn about it here.

For example:

local OpenBrick = workspace.OpenBrick
local CloseBrick = workspace.CloseBrick

local function OpenUI(hit)
	if hit.Parent:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("Humanoid") then
		-- make ui visible
	end
end

local function CloseUI(hit)
	if hit.Parent:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("Humanoid") then
		-- make ui invisible 
	end
end


OpenBrick.Touched:Connect(OpenUI)
CloseBrick.Touched:Connect(CloseUI)
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#3

sorry for the late response, but i’m trying to use a singular part to trigger and un-trigger the GUI. Like it starts when touched and ends when untouched

#4

How about Magnitude?
You can use Magnitude to measure the distance between two different objects, let that be the player and a part or two different parts.

I say, run a while true loop and check whether the Player HumanoidRootPart is near the part and make the GUI visible if the HumanoidRootPart is within a certain range.

Example:

local Range = 10 -- Range

while true do
	Frame["Visible"] = false -- Frame
	for Int, Item in pairs(workspace:GetChildren()) do -- Assuming the part is in the Workspace
		if Item:IsA("BasePart") and Item["Name"] == "Part" then -- Checking if its a part and has the name "Part"
			local Magnitude = (Item["Position"] - HumanoidRootPart["Position"])["magnitude"]
			if Magnitude <= Range then -- Checking whether the HumanoidRootPart is less than the given Range
				local Position = CurrentCamera:WorldToScreenPoint(Item["Position"])
				Frame["Visible"] = true -- Making the GUI visible
				Frame["Position"] = UDim2.new(0, Position["X"], 0, Position["Y"], 0)
			end
		end
	end
	wait()
end
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#5

I ended up using Touched and TouchEnded

#6

Update again: i’m not using Touched and TouchEnded anymore, because they’re completely unreliable and I’m Switching to ZonePlus instead