How to make a 'BillboardGui' over the player's head?

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#1

Hello I need some help, I don’t know how to create a ‘BillboardGui’ over the head of the local player, could someone tell me please how to do it :frowning:

i want something like this:

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Only local player can see that

Changing images on a characters head
#2

If we’re talking locally (Only the player can see), you could probably do something like this in 1 of the local properties?

--Maybe in StarterCharacterScripts
local Player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local Character = Player.Character or Player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
--You could put in some parameters if you want to check if a player has a correct requirement
local Billboard = Instance.new("BillboardGUI, Character.Torso")

And then you could configure around with the Billboard’s properties a bit (Size, Text, etc)

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#3 
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local Client = Players.LocalPlayer or Players.PlayerAdded:Wait()

Client.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(Char)
	local billboardInstance = Instance.new("BillboardGui")		
	billboardInstance.Parent = Char:WaitForChild("Head")
	billboardInstance.StudsOffsetWorldSpace = Vector3.new(0,2.5,0)
	local textLabel = Instance.new("TextLabel")
	textLabel.Parent = billboardInstance
	textLabel.BackgroundTransparency = 1
	textLabel.Text = "Text"
end)
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#4

it didn’t worked for me… Should I do it from a script server?

#5

Where did you place the script

#6

I would like to put this billboard on top of the other, so that it looks above

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ServerScript

local players = game:GetService("Players")
local PLAYER = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local Client = PLAYER.LocalPlayer or PLAYER.PlayerAdded:Wait()

players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
	plr.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(char)
		local gui = script.CustomHealthGui:Clone()
		gui.Parent = char.Head

		local mainFrame = gui.MainFrame
		mainFrame.Username.Text = plr.name

		local image = players:GetUserThumbnailAsync(plr.UserId, Enum.ThumbnailType.HeadShot, Enum.ThumbnailSize.Size100x100)
		mainFrame.UserImageLabel.Image = image

		spawn(function()
			while wait() do
				mainFrame.HealthLabel.Text = tostring(math.floor(char.Humanoid.Health)).."/"..tostring(math.floor(char.Humanoid.MaxHealth))
				mainFrame.HealthBar.Size = UDim2.fromScale((char.Humanoid.Health / char.Humanoid.MaxHealth), 0.4)	
				while wait() do
					mainFrame.HealthLabel.Text = tostring(math.floor(char.Humanoid.Health)).."/"..tostring(math.floor(char.Humanoid.MaxHealth))
					mainFrame.HealthBar.Size = UDim2.fromScale((char.Humanoid.Health / char.Humanoid.MaxHealth), 0.4)
				end	
			end
		end)
		
		Client.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(Char)
			local billboardInstance = Instance.new("BillboardGui")		
			billboardInstance.Parent = Char:WaitForChild("Head")
			billboardInstance.StudsOffsetWorldSpace = Vector3.new(0,3.5,0)
			local textLabel = Instance.new("TextLabel")
			textLabel.Parent = billboardInstance
			textLabel.BackgroundTransparency = 1
			textLabel.Text = "Text"
		end)
		
	end)
end)
#7

Are there any errors in output?

#8

Why do you have a characteradded event inside of a characteradded event and also change client to plr also i thought you wanted this to only be visible to the localplayer

#9

game.Player.LocalPlayer only works in local scripts. If you think about it, ServerScripts would have no idea which player is supposed to be the “Local Player”.

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#10

I want the life bar to show on the server but the billboard on the local

#11

Then put in a localscript plus i just tried it and it didn’t work so use this instead.

local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local Client = Players.LocalPlayer or Players.PlayerAdded:Wait()
local Char = Client.Character or Client.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local billboardInstance = Instance.new("BillboardGui")		
billboardInstance.Parent = Char:WaitForChild("Head")
billboardInstance.StudsOffsetWorldSpace = Vector3.new(0,2.5,0)
billboard.Size = UDim2.new(0,100,0,100)
local textLabel = Instance.new("TextLabel")
textLabel.Parent = billboardInstance
textLabel.BackgroundTransparency = 1
textLabel.Size = UDim2.new(0,100,0,100)
textLabel.Text = "Text"
textLabel.TextScaled = true
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#12

Just gonna-

local Player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local Character = Player.Character or Player.CharacterAdded:Wait()

local GUI = Instance.new("BillboardGui", Character.Head)
GUI.Size = UDim2.new(3, 0, 1, 0)
local TextLabel = Instance.new("TextLabel", GUI)
TextLabel.Text = "This is a local test"
TextLabel.Size = UDim2.new(1,0,1,0)
print("GUI Given to "..Player.Name)

Also make sure to define the Sizes as well, otherwise the UDim2’s will be set to (0,0,0,0)

#13

Yeah was just about to say that when i noticed it wasn’t showing also you need to offset it or it will be in the player’s head.