How would you make a local player's healthbar only show to other players?

Help and Feedback Scripting Support
#1

How would you make a local player’s overhead health bar only show to other players? When a player joins the game, their health bar is not visible to them, but it is visible to other players.

With my script, the health bar isn’t visible to anyone, meaning players don’t know when they are about to die. The health bar is a regular script and is located within the starter player scripts with a billboardgui as the overhead health bar.
image_2023-12-25_103038485

I tried making it a local script, putting it into starter character scripts instead, but no positive results came back.

After that, you should include more details if you have any. Try to make your topic as descriptive as possible, so that it’s easier for people to help you!

script:

> local Players = game:GetService("Players")
> 
> local function isLocalPlayer(player)
> 	return player == Players.LocalPlayer
> end
> 
> local char = script.Parent
> local healthGui = script.HealthGui
> local humanoid = char:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
> 
> healthGui.Parent = char.Head
> 
> humanoid:GetPropertyChangedSignal("Health"):Connect(function()
> 	local healthChange = humanoid.Health / humanoid.MaxHealth
> 	local healthColor = Color3.fromRGB(255, 0, 0):Lerp(Color3.fromRGB(60, 255, 0), healthChange)
> 
> 	healthGui.Health.Meter:TweenSize(UDim2.new(healthChange, 0, 1, 0), "In", "Linear", 1)
> 	healthGui.Health.Meter.BackgroundColor3 = healthColor
> 
> 	-- Check if the player is not the local player before showing the health bar
> 	if not isLocalPlayer(Players.GetPlayerFromCharacter(char)) then
> 		healthGui.Visible = true
> 	else
> 		healthGui.Visible = false
> 	end
> end)

I’ll be grateful if you could help me out, and I hope you have a lovely happy holiday!

#2

When you do things on the client, it doesn’t replicate to the server (and won’t replicate to other players). Add a script in ServerScriptService and add your nametags there.

You should also be using PlayerToHideFrom.

#3

Alright, I put a local script in StarterPlayerScript with the health billboard and a script in serverscriptservice. and still no sign of working… thanks for commenting at least!

script inside serverscriptservice:

 local Players = game:GetService("Players")

local function isLocalPlayer(player, playerToHideFrom)
	return player == playerToHideFrom
end

local function setupHealthGui(player)
	local character = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
	local humanoid = character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")

	local healthGui = Instance.new("Folder")
	healthGui.Name = "HealthGui"
	healthGui.Parent = character.Head

	local meter = Instance.new("Frame")
	meter.Name = "Meter"
	meter.Size = UDim2.new(1, 0, 1, 0)
	meter.Parent = healthGui

	humanoid:GetPropertyChangedSignal("Health"):Connect(function()
		local healthChange = humanoid.Health / humanoid.MaxHealth
		local healthColor = Color3.fromRGB(255, 0, 0):Lerp(Color3.fromRGB(60, 255, 0), healthChange)

		meter:TweenSize(UDim2.new(healthChange, 0, 1, 0), "In", "Linear", 1)
		meter.BackgroundColor3 = healthColor

		-- Check if the player is not the local player before showing the health bar
		if not isLocalPlayer(player, playerToHideFrom) then
			healthGui.Visible = true
		else
			healthGui.Visible = false
		end
	end)
end

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function()
		setupHealthGui(player)
	end)
end)

Local script inside of StarterPlayerScripts:

local Players = game:GetService("Players")

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function()
		
	end)
end)
#4

Well, you can’t just paste your code lol. You have to modify it to add my suggestion too, and also get rid of certain things.

Get rid of your LocalScript, and change your ServerScript to this:

local Players = game:GetService("Players")

local function setupHealthGui(player)
	local character = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
	local humanoid = character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")

	local healthGui = Instance.new("BillboardGui")
	healthGui.Name = "HealthGui"
	healthGui.PlayerToHideFrom = player
	healthGui.Parent = character.Head

	local meter = Instance.new("Frame")
	meter.Name = "Meter"
	meter.Size = UDim2.fromScale(1, 1)
	meter.Parent = healthGui

	humanoid:GetPropertyChangedSignal("Health"):Connect(function()
		local healthChange = humanoid.Health / humanoid.MaxHealth
		local healthColor = Color3.fromRGB(255, 0, 0):Lerp(Color3.fromRGB(60, 255, 0), healthChange)

		meter:TweenSize(UDim2.fromScale(healthChange, 1), Enum.EasingDirection.In, Enum.EasingStyle.Linear, 1)
		meter.BackgroundColor3 = healthColor
	end)
end

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function()
		setupHealthGui(player)
	end)
end)

You were also creating a Folder instead of a BillboardGui.

#5

My apologies, it is not working in my main game, ill create a new one to see if that’s the problem.

#6

Do I include the healthbar into my script in serverscriptservice, or do i keep it in starterplayerscripts?