Hey so this should be a relatively short thread but, im making a game and whenever you get killed a GUI pops up saying “Person KO 'ed you” and an image of the user’s avatar should appear accept it doesnt. (I tested it with my friend to see if it worked)
I want to know how I can get the player’s avatar image with only a string of their username also keep in mind that this is a localscript.
If you only have a string that contains the player’s Username, you can first look through the Players service to check if the player is still in the game – if they are, call :GetUserThumbnailAsync using the UserId property of the player Instance that was found.
Based on the code you’ve provided, I’m not sure what “KPlayer” and “LastHit” are referring to, however, I presume that “LastHit” is an ObjectValue that stores a reference to the player that inflicted the final bits of damage to the LocalPlayer and that “KPlayer” does the same thing, except for that player’s Character. If this is the case, there would be no need to look through the Players service using a string because you have direct references to the Player Instance.
I would highly suggest separating your code across multiple lines as to ensure it remains organized and that certain Instances exist at the time they’re being referenced, preventing any errors from occurring. Here’s an example restructure of those three lines of code:
local Players = game:GetService("Players") -- References Players Service for easy access to LocalPlayer & methods of Players Service
local player = Players.LocalPlayer -- References LocalPlayer as to prevent repetitive game.Players.LocalPlayer indexing
local function updateIcon() -- Function that's activated whenever you want to update the icon
local KPlayer = Player:WaitForChild("KPlayer") -- Check for these two values before continuing
local LastHit = player:WaitForChild("LastHit")
if KPlayer and LastHit then -- If the BaseValues(?) exist, we can continue
local otherPlayer = LastHit.Value -- Accesses the value properties of these BaseValues
local otherCharacter = KPlayer.Value
--[[ This could be simplified to reference the Character of "otherPlayer"
without utilizing the "KPlayer" value, but I'm referencing it this way
right now since I don't know for sure what the variables are actually referring to --]]
if otherPlayer and otherCharacter then -- If there were values stored, then...
local otherHumanoid = otherCharacter:FindFirstChildOfClass("Humanoid") -- Checks if the otherPlayer's Character has a Humanoid
if otherHumanoid then -- If they do, then...
local Icon = script.Parent.Icon
Icon.Image = Players:GetUserThumbnailAsync(otherPlayer.UserId, Enum.ThumbnailType.Headshot, Enum.ThumbnailSize.Size180x180
-- Updates Image to the avatar of the other user so you don't end up seeing your own avatar
local CurrentCamera = workspace.CurrentCamera
local CameraSubject = CurrentCamera.CameraSubject
CameraSubject = otherHumanoid
end
end
end
end
also “LastHit” is a String Value that gets the player’s username and “KPlayer” (the K is supposed to mean Killer) is an Object Value of the player’s avatar for the camera that spectates the player when the gui is active and the script is enabled
Thanks for the clarification there – in that case referencing LastHit.Value].UserID would not have been possible in the OP since that would have been trying to index “UserID” on the string.
By “player’s Avatar”, are you referring to the player Instance or their Character in the Workspace? I don’t think this would be referring to the ImageLabel that contains the image of their Avatar (since that wouldn’t be a very efficient usage of an ObjectValue, from my understanding).
local userId = game.Players:GetUserIdFromNameAsync(username)
local thumbType = Enum.ThumbnailType.HeadShot
local thumbSize = Enum.ThumbnailSize.Size420x420
local content, isReady = Players:GetUserThumbnailAsync(userId, thumbType, thumbSize)
Alright so ive tested it out again using your advice and code as a refrence ive come up with this yet still seems to not want to work.
also I should mention the script works by being activated by another script that checks for when a player dies, it then clones the gui into the PlayerGui and activates the script at the same time.
a bit messy but everything worked just not the image
anyways heres the code:
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local player = Players.LocalPlayer
local KP= player:WaitForChild("KPlayer")
local LH = player:WaitForChild("LastHit")
local Kplr = LastHit.Value
local KChar = KPlayer.Value
if KPlayer and LastHit ~= nil then
local H = KChar:FindFirstChildOfClass("Humanoid")
if H then
local Icon = script.Parent.Icon
Icon.Image = Players:GetUserThumbnailAsync(Kplr.UserId, Enum.ThumbnailType.Headshot, Enum.ThumbnailSize.Size180x180)
local CurrentCamera = workspace.CurrentCamera
local CameraSubject = CurrentCamera.CameraSubject
CameraSubject = H
end
end
Are you using BindableEvents for this or do you mean changing the Disabled property of the script? If the latter, I would advise against this because that means there would be no way to run the code again without duplicating the script since there’s no function you can call.
Remember that you wouldn’t be able to directly reference the UserId property this way because the value of LastHit is not referring to the player Instance that allows you to access their UserId.
Furthermore, you didn’t adjust the variables to align with the code you have now:
local KP = player:WaitForChild("KPlayer")
local LH = player:WaitForChild("LastHit")
local Kplr = LastHit.Value -- LastHit would need to become "LH"
local KChar = KPlayer.Value -- KPlayer would need to become "KP"
okay ive taken everything into considerationg and ive gotten the script to work finally!
using your advice and adding some snipits of code from @CoinTheKit it will now successfully display an image on the GUI
also ill be sure to try make the script triggered via event to make it a bit stronger like said
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local player = Players.LocalPlayer
local KP = player:WaitForChild("KPlayer")
local LH = player:WaitForChild("LastHit")
local Kplr = LH.Value
local KChar = KP.Value
local userId = game.Players:GetUserIdFromNameAsync(Kplr)
local thumbType = Enum.ThumbnailType.HeadShot
local thumbSize = Enum.ThumbnailSize.Size420x420
local content, isReady = Players:GetUserThumbnailAsync(userId, thumbType, thumbSize)
if KP and LH ~= nil then
local H = KChar:FindFirstChildOfClass("Humanoid")
if H then
local Icon = script.Parent.Icon
Icon.Image = Players:GetUserThumbnailAsync(userId, thumbType, thumbSize)
local CurrentCamera = workspace.CurrentCamera
local CameraSubject = CurrentCamera.CameraSubject
CameraSubject = H
end
end
Just wanted to mention that this would be making unnecessary requests to the Roblox website – if the player is already in the game, it’s more reliable and less resource-intensive to first look through the Players Service and check if it can find any Instance with the name stored in the Kplr variable.
Because of the action that’s required for this code to be run (a player inflicting enough damage onto another player), it’s very likely that the other player is still in the game (there would be very few instances, if any, where this would not be the case).
You can always add a conditional statement that will then ask the Roblox website to access it if the player left as soon as the script made it to this part of the code.
