How to make a image show the players avatar?

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#1

I want to make a gui that shows the localplayers avatar and I tried it with some scripts didnt work because I’m kinda a huge noob in scripting stuff like thisa.
Couldn’t find help anywhere and idk what to search up on the dev wiki
Any help would be appreciated

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#2

If I understood correctly, you can use some of the web api endpoints to get an image of the user(s) thumbnail in various different shots (aka headshot, fully body, etc). It can be found here.

Alternatively, you can also use a ViewportFrame in a GUI to showcase the player’s character in 3D, which is also cool! :slight_smile:

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#3

EDIT: Read @colbert2677 's post for a better way of implementing this!

You may be looking for GetUserThumbnailAsync which allows you to get the image of a player. Here is an example of how you would use it:

local success, image = pcall(function()
    return game.Players:GetUserThumbnailAsync(userId, Enum.ThumbnailType.HeadShot, Enum.ThumbnailSize.Size420x420) -- you can change the last two parameters to get a different type of image. See wiki page linked above for more!
end)

if success then
    imageLabel.Image = image
end
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#4

I would advise you not to throw away the second return value of GetUserThumbnailAsync. While this does adequately retrieve the user’s thumbnail, the success value of the call doesn’t necessarily mean that the image will be available either.

local Players = game:GetService("Players") -- Canonical way to get a service

-- Simplified pcall
local success, image, ready = pcall(function ()
    return Players:GetUserThumbnailAsync(UserId, Enum.ThumbnailType.AvatarThumbnail) -- OP requested avatar
end)

-- Direct pcall (preferable, as it does not create an anonymous function)
local success, image, ready = pcall(Players.GetThumbnailAsync, Players, UserId, Enum.ThumbnailType.AvatarThumbnail)

if success then
    if ready then
        -- Ready to be used
    else
        -- Image not ready to be used
    end
else
    -- Call failed
end

That being said, well, a code example is already available on the Developer Hub article itself, sans pcall. OP could’ve found this by searching, whether they can script or not.

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#5

Ah yes, I completely forgot it returned a second value, my mistake. I also didn’t see the example code on the Developer Hub. Thank you!

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#6

You could also do something like this:

--THIS CODE ONLY WORKS IN A LOCALSCRIPT
local Player = Game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer -- Return the player
local PlayerThumbnail = "http://www.roblox.com/Thumbs/Avatar.ashx?x=150&y=150&Format=Png&username="..Player.Name
--Now you can set anything that uses a image to be the variable PlayerThumbnail, like this:
ImageLabel.Image = PlayerThumbnail
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