How do I stop this from happening and have a tween play again?

FakeDimondsforlife · October 23, 2025, 11:06pm

I want my GUI to play again and again, but the issue I keep running into is that my GUI keeps disappearing and it also doesn’t quit and play again. Here is the code and a video example:

local GUI = game.Players.LocalPlayer.PlayerGui.Text
local tween = game.TweenService:Create(GUI.Text,TweenInfo.new(0.5,Enum.EasingStyle.Cubic,Enum.EasingDirection.Out),{Position = UDim2.new(0.392, 0,0.786, 0)})
local tween2 = game.TweenService:Create(GUI.Text,TweenInfo.new(2,Enum.EasingStyle.Cubic,Enum.EasingDirection.In),{Position = UDim2.new(0.392, 0,0.973, 0)})
game.ReplicatedStorage.TalkText.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(Icon,Text,Sound)
	TweenStuff(Icon,Text,Sound)
end)

function TweenStuff(Icon,Text,Sound)
	if tween.PlaybackState == Enum.PlaybackState.Playing or tween2.PlaybackState == Enum.PlaybackState.Playing then
		tween:Cancel()
		tween2:Cancel()
	end
	GUI.Text.Visible = true
	tween:Play()
	GUI.Text.ImageLabel.Image = "rbxassetid://"..Icon
	GUI.Text.TextLabel.Text = Text
	GUI.Sound.SoundId = "rbxassetid://"..Sound
	GUI.Sound:Play()
	wait(3)
	tween2:Play()
	wait(2)
	GUI.Text.Visible = false
end

The thing I want to happen is that the whole thing starts from square 1. The last function that had been called should have stopped and restarted. I don’t think disabling and enabling will even work. I’ve tried it, but the function doesn’t stop.

FusionOBC · October 23, 2025, 11:35pm

Could be wrong here, but Tween:Cancel() stops a tween early and keeps the step at which it was canceled. if you’re using the same UI, you should move the GUI back to the offset that is out the screen, and then tween it. because if you call Tween:Play() after cancelling it when it already finished its ‘animation’ it won’t do anything anymore because the GUI is already in the position. When you call tween:Cancel() make sure you’re also moving it back to its original position.

anunsual100 · October 25, 2025, 7:14am

Because it’s not being sent back to its original position. From my experiences, you also don’t need to cancel a tween, the next one will always override the current tween, but i kept that in because I’m not sure.

local GUI = game.Players.LocalPlayer.PlayerGui.Text
local tween = game.TweenService:Create(GUI.Text,TweenInfo.new(0.5,Enum.EasingStyle.Cubic,Enum.EasingDirection.Out),{Position = UDim2.new(0.392, 0,0.786, 0)})
local tween2 = game.TweenService:Create(GUI.Text,TweenInfo.new(2,Enum.EasingStyle.Cubic,Enum.EasingDirection.In),{Position = UDim2.new(0.392, 0,0.973, 0)})
game.ReplicatedStorage.TalkText.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(Icon,Text,Sound)
	TweenStuff(Icon,Text,Sound)
end)

function TweenStuff(Icon,Text,Sound)
	if tween.PlaybackState == Enum.PlaybackState.Playing or tween2.PlaybackState == Enum.PlaybackState.Playing then
		tween:Cancel()
		tween2:Cancel()
        GUI.Position = Udim2.new(0,1,0,1) -- set this to whatver you need to, idk what u have it as in the start. This should work! 👍
	end
	GUI.Text.Visible = true
	tween:Play()
	GUI.Text.ImageLabel.Image = "rbxassetid://"..Icon
	GUI.Text.TextLabel.Text = Text
	GUI.Sound.SoundId = "rbxassetid://"..Sound
	GUI.Sound:Play()
	wait(3)
	tween2:Play()
	wait(2)
	GUI.Text.Visible = false
end

FakeDimondsforlife · October 25, 2025, 2:17pm

Yes, sending it back works. But now we have another problem. How do I get it to stop disappearing mid-wait time if I spam the same RemoteEvent?

Vursice · October 25, 2025, 2:47pm

You can just create a debounce to prevent the player from sending the same RemoteEvent until the wait time expires. Just check for the debounce at the beginning of your function there and then set it to false after the wait.

FakeDimondsforlife · October 25, 2025, 3:52pm

Here’s the thing though, I want it to purposefully restart. Just so if multiple things are said, I can restart the text and say another thing. Maybe this solution you just said is wrong… Or Is It?

2112Jay · October 25, 2025, 4:00pm

This may work out..

Revised

task.wait(3)

local ts = game:GetService("TweenService")
local plr = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer
local gui = plr:WaitForChild("PlayerGui"):WaitForChild("Text")

local showTween = ts:Create(gui.Text, TweenInfo.new(0.5, Enum.EasingStyle.Cubic,
	Enum.EasingDirection.Out), {Position = UDim2.new(0.392,0,0.786,0)})
local hideTween = ts:Create(gui.Text, TweenInfo.new(2, Enum.EasingStyle.Cubic,
	Enum.EasingDirection.In), {Position = UDim2.new(0.392,0,0.973,0)})

function TweenStuff(icon, text, sound)
	showTween:Cancel()
	hideTween:Cancel()
	gui.Text.Visible = true
	gui.Text.ImageLabel.Image = "rbxassetid://"..icon
	gui.Text.TextLabel.Text = text
	gui.Sound.SoundId = "rbxassetid://"..sound
	gui.Sound:Play()
	showTween:Play()
	task.wait(3)
	hideTween:Play()
	hideTween.Completed:Wait()
	gui.Text.Visible = false
end

game.ReplicatedStorage.TalkText.OnClientEvent:Connect(TweenStuff)

FakeDimondsforlife · October 25, 2025, 4:15pm

Hmmm… I’ve done something similar to this. But it never actually worked out for me. Yes, it should cancel the tweens if they are playing… But this doesn’t reset it’s position and stop it from turning it invisible mid-way. I’ll show of an example of what I mean.

See how if I spam the remoteEvents (The prompts fire the event) it makes the text invisible mid-way through. I’ve got everything else done, I just want to figure out how to get rid of THAT.

FusionOBC · October 25, 2025, 4:41pm

your tweens are stacking up and finishing when another is fired, think of it as a queue, youre firing one tween and then another one while the first one is still playing, so it’ll finish the first tweens animation on top of starting the new one, I say just ignore the second function call until tween2 finishes playing to avoid race conditions when event is fired consecutively. And instead of using wait, use .Completed

local isRunning = false

game.ReplicatedStorage.TalkText.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(Icon,Text,Sound)
    if isRunning then return end
	TweenStuff(Icon,Text,Sound)
end)

function TweenStuff(Icon,Text,Sound)
    isRunning = true
	GUI.Text.Visible = true
	tween:Play()
	GUI.Text.ImageLabel.Image = "rbxassetid://"..Icon
	GUI.Text.TextLabel.Text = Text
	GUI.Sound.SoundId = "rbxassetid://"..Sound
	GUI.Sound:Play()
	task.wait(3)
	tween2:Play()
end

tween2.Completed:Connect(function()
     GUI.Text.Visible = false
     isRunning = false
end)

This is a bandaid solution, I would recommend you rewrite the function and avoid using wait() (use task.wait() instead because wait() is deprecated) because it yields everything unless running on a different thread.

FakeDimondsforlife · October 25, 2025, 5:16pm

I took some inspiration from this. I made it so that when the tweens are completed the actions after happens. But I had to remove the debounce on the text, which I don’t want. I’ve created this script,

local GUI = game.Players.LocalPlayer.PlayerGui.Text
local tween = game.TweenService:Create(GUI.Text,TweenInfo.new(0.5,Enum.EasingStyle.Cubic,Enum.EasingDirection.Out),{Position = UDim2.new(0.392, 0,0.786, 0)})
local tween2 = game.TweenService:Create(GUI.Text,TweenInfo.new(2,Enum.EasingStyle.Cubic,Enum.EasingDirection.In),{Position = UDim2.new(0.392, 0,0.973, 0)})
local didSpeak = false

local function TweenStuff(Icon,Text,Sound)
	GUI.Text.Position = UDim2.new(0.392, 0,0.973, 0)
	print("A")
	if didSpeak == true then
		print("Erm")
		while true do
		tween:Cancel()
		tween2:Cancel()
		didSpeak = false
		if didSpeak == false then
			break
		end
		task.wait(0)
		end
	end
	didSpeak = true
	GUI.Text.Visible = true
	task.wait(0)
	tween:Play()
	GUI.Text.ImageLabel.Image = "rbxassetid://"..Icon
	GUI.Text.TextLabel.Text = Text
	GUI.Sound.SoundId = "rbxassetid://"..Sound
	GUI.Sound:Play()
	tween.Completed:Connect(function()
		task.wait(3)
		tween2:Play()
	end)
	tween2.Completed:Connect(function()
		GUI.Text.Visible = false
		didSpeak = false
	end)
end



game.ReplicatedStorage.TalkText.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(Icon,Text,Sound)
	TweenStuff(Icon,Text,Sound)
end)

But it only works for about 3 times, then it just bugs out.

FusionOBC · October 25, 2025, 9:51pm

Wow careful, youre connecting a signal for .Completed every time the function Is called by the remote event. Move the tween2.Completed and tween.Completed signals out of the function, they don’t need to be in there to work seeing as you instantiated the tweens in a global scope, if you leave it like this it’s gonna cause a pretty big memory leak, and could be the reason it bugs out

local GUI = game.Players.LocalPlayer.PlayerGui.Text
local tween = game.TweenService:Create(GUI.Text,TweenInfo.new(0.5,Enum.EasingStyle.Cubic,Enum.EasingDirection.Out),{Position = UDim2.new(0.392, 0,0.786, 0)})
local tween2 = game.TweenService:Create(GUI.Text,TweenInfo.new(2,Enum.EasingStyle.Cubic,Enum.EasingDirection.In),{Position = UDim2.new(0.392, 0,0.973, 0)})
local didSpeak = false

local function TweenStuff(Icon,Text,Sound)
	GUI.Text.Position = UDim2.new(0.392, 0,0.973, 0)
	print("A")
	if didSpeak == true then
		print("Erm")
		tween:Cancel()
		tween2:Cancel()
		didSpeak = false
	end
	didSpeak = true
	GUI.Text.Visible = true
	tween:Play()
	GUI.Text.ImageLabel.Image = "rbxassetid://"..Icon
	GUI.Text.TextLabel.Text = Text
	GUI.Sound.SoundId = "rbxassetid://"..Sound
	GUI.Sound:Play()
end

tween.Completed:Connect(function()
	task.wait(3)
	tween2:Play()
end)
tween2.Completed:Connect(function()
	GUI.Text.Visible = false
	didSpeak = false
end)



game.ReplicatedStorage.TalkText.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(Icon,Text,Sound)
	TweenStuff(Icon,Text,Sound)
end)

Also task.wait(0) does nothing so you can remove it. I removed the weird nested while true do loop because it instantly sets did speak to false and then instantly breaks out of it, so a loop is useless there

FakeDimondsforlife · October 26, 2025, 9:58pm

Still has the same outcome as the previous script. Works 3 times, then it bugs out. But at least my script is cleaner.

FakeDimondsforlife · October 26, 2025, 10:22pm

I think I figured out the mid-invisibility to the gui. Here is the script:

local GUI = game.Players.LocalPlayer.PlayerGui.Text
local tween = game.TweenService:Create(GUI.Text,TweenInfo.new(0.5,Enum.EasingStyle.Cubic,Enum.EasingDirection.Out),{Position = UDim2.new(0.392, 0,0.786, 0)})
local tween2 = game.TweenService:Create(GUI.Text,TweenInfo.new(2,Enum.EasingStyle.Cubic,Enum.EasingDirection.In),{Position = UDim2.new(0.392, 0,0.973, 0)})
local didSpeak = false

local function TweenStuff(Icon,Text,Sound)
	GUI.Text.Position = UDim2.new(0.392, 0,0.973, 0)
	if didSpeak == true then
		GUI.Text.Visible = true
		print("No more tweens.")
		tween:Cancel()
		tween2:Cancel()
		didSpeak = false
	end
	task.wait(0.01)
	print("A")
	VisiblizeGui()
	didSpeak = true
	GUI.Text.Visible = true
	tween:Play()
	GUI.Text.ImageLabel.Image = "rbxassetid://"..Icon
	GUI.Text.TextLabel.Text = Text
	GUI.Sound.SoundId = "rbxassetid://"..Sound
	GUI.Sound:Play()
end

tween.Completed:Connect(function()
	task.wait(3)
	tween2:Play()
end)
tween2.Completed:Connect(function()
	GUI.Text.Visible = false
	didSpeak = false
end)

game.ReplicatedStorage.TalkText.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(Icon,Text,Sound)
	TweenStuff(Icon,Text,Sound)
end)

function VisiblizeGui()
	while true do
	GUI.Text.Visible = true
	if GUI.Text.Visible == true then
		break
	end
	end
end

It does bug a little, but at least the disappearing stops. The little bugs are the tweens ending too early. Especially the first tween, if the remoteEvent is spammed. But that’s up to me to find out. You all can give advice to help me out, I appreciate the help you all give me.

Also the reason why I use:

function VisiblizeGui()
	while true do
	GUI.Text.Visible = true
	if GUI.Text.Visible == true then
		break
	end
	end
end

Is because I watched the PlayerGui for the Text. The visibility stays off, but this should help the GUI from being visible every time the RemoteEvent is recieved.

FakeDimondsforlife · October 26, 2025, 10:40pm

local function TweenStuff(Icon,Text,Sound)
	GUI.Text.Position = UDim2.new(0.392, 0,0.973, 0)
	if didSpeak == true then
		DeBug = true
		GUI.Text.Visible = true
		print("No more tweens.")
		tween:Cancel()
		tween2:Cancel()
		didSpeak = false
	end
	task.wait(0.01)
	print("A")
	VisiblizeGui()
	didSpeak = true
	GUI.Text.Visible = true
	tween:Play()
	GUI.Text.ImageLabel.Image = "rbxassetid://"..Icon
	GUI.Text.TextLabel.Text = Text
	GUI.Sound.SoundId = "rbxassetid://"..Sound
	GUI.Sound:Play()
end

tween.Completed:Connect(function()
	if DeBug == false then
	task.wait(3)
	tween2:Play()
	else
		print("oof")
	end
end)
tween2.Completed:Connect(function()
	GUI.Text.Visible = false
	didSpeak = false
	DeBug = false
end)

This will fix my bugs. Plus, text is uncommon in the game I’m making so it’s highly unlikely someone will bug it. Text is usually it’s there for character. Thanks for the help!

system · November 9, 2025, 10:41pm

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