How to hide gui?

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#1

Hello, (if you saw my last post, I am just letting 2 posts run at once. I will answer to both of them)

I wanted to know how to hide gui. Lemme elaborate:

Like games Phantom Forces, Arsenal, they have a system where they hide their gui when you have your weapons equipped. I want to do this to create more screen area for GUI. Such as custom health and stamina.

If you know, anything helps.

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#2

Well, you can get the screen gui object and set Enabled to false. If there are frames under it, you can set Visibility = false.

local playerService = game:GetService("Players")
local childWaitTime = 10

local function disableGui()
	local localPlayer = playerService.LocalPlayer
	local playerGui = localPlayer:WaitForChild("PlayerGui", childWaitTime)
	if playerGui then
		local screenGui = playerGui:WaitForChild("Your screen GUI name here", childWaitTime)
		if screenGui then
			screenGui.Enabled = false
		end
	end
end

It must run on the client in a ClientScript.

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#3

You want to Uncheck the Enabled property of a ScreenGui instance to hide everything underneath the ScreenGui.

Example:

-- To show gui
ScreenGui.Enabled = true

-- to hide gui
ScreenGui.Enabled = false
#4

To add on to this, most gui elements support the Visible property.

Frame.Visible = false
task.wait(5)
Frame.Visible = true
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#5

so does this still show the tools gui but i just have to cover it? If so, id rather just make it not visible at all.

#6

Are you talking about Roblox’s CoreGui for tools and gear, or do you mean a custom Gui that you’ve made yourself?

If it’s the former, you can look into SetCoreGuiEnabled.

#7

CoreGui. I will look into it, thanks!

#8

Yeah, the way to disable the backpack/tools gui is:
game:GetService("StarterGui"):SetCoreGuiEnabled(false)

#9

In this case, you’d probably want to specify the backpack only:

game:GetService('StarterGui'):SetCoreGuiEnabled(Enum.CoreGuiType.Backpack,false)
#10

Didnt work for some reason, do i have to put this script somewhere?

#11

Using the SetCoreGuiEnabled function requires a LocalScript. Attempting to use a server script won’t work. If it is a LocalScript and it isn’t running try putting them in these containers: StarterGui, StarterPlayerScripts inside the StarterPlayer and the ReplicatedFirst service.

#12

Run the code @MightyDantheman suggested, inside a LocalScript that is enabled.

#13

did that already. but ill put it in startergui

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#14

Everything that’s under the specified GUI is hidden… Frames, everything.

#15

Oops I was in a rush, didn’t realize I forgot the first parameter

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