So I’m trying to make text change for my chests from “Collect!” to “Can’t Collect!” and vice versa, and it will be different for the player, but LocalScripts do not run in the Workspace.
So when you collect the chest, it will change to “Can’t collect!”, and when the chest is ready again, it’ll change back to “Collect!”
How can I fix this problem?
Try this:
local text1 = "Collect"
local text2 = "Can't collect"
--Be sure to define "textlabel"
if textlabel.Text == text1 then
textlabel.Text = text2
elseif textlabel.Text == text2 then
textlabel.Text = text1
end
To @GodpraiserNOW,
The script you put will change for the server, but I want it to just change for the player who collected.
If I wanted it to change for the whole server, I wouldn’t have come here, since that is one of the easiest things to do… 
To @OIogist, a touched event 
Do you open the chests from a mouse click or a touched event?
Oooohhhh I get it
You would need a remote event. Carry textlabel to the localscript using arguments/parameters.
@GodpraiserNOW that would literally do nothing as the server will change it for all players, not the client!
Wait I read that wrong…
I’ll try it out!
Leave the text blank on the server then or don’t change the text in a serverscript once the game has started
Ok so, try this:
This will be the sever script:
local chest = --define chest here
local remote = --define remote event here
chest.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
local player = game.Players:FindFirstChild(hit.Parent.Name)
remote:FireClient(player)
end)
And in a local script, type the following:
local remote = --define remote event here
local textlabel = --define textlabel here
local opened = "Collect"
local closed = "Can't Collect"
remote.OnClientEvent:Connect(function()
if textlabel.Text == opened then
textlebel.Text = closed
--give the player whatever they want here (if it is a tool, you may want to fire another remote event to the server so it shows up for everyone else in the server)
wait(20) --Cooldown time until chest is collectable again
textlabel.Text = opened
end
end)
Oh also, for the textlabel, you may want to get it from the player’s PlayerGui, as opposed to the StarterGui
local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local textlabel = player.PlayerGui:WaitForChild("ScreenGui"):WaitForChild("TextLabel")
--define it properly as how you named your textlabel and its parents
Uhh… There could be a slight problem.
I use DataStores for this (So basically it’s a daily chest) and I need to find another way to change the text back to open…
And I am not using ScreenGuis, but BillboardGuis, and if I were doing ScreenGuis, I would not have come here!
Ohh, i see (I’m assuming you just use a boolvalue for if you opened it or not) Do this instead:
ServerScript:
local chest = --define chest here
local remote = --define remote event here
chest.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
local player = game.Players:FindFirstChild(hit.Parent.Name)
local daily = player:FindFirstChild("Opened") --define this properly (i would recommend making this a BoolValue)
if daily.Value == false then
daily.Value = true
remote:FireClient(player)
--reward player here
end
end)
LocalScript:
local remote = --define remote event here
local textlabel = --define textlabel here
local opened = "Collect"
local closed = "Can't Collect"
remote.OnClientEvent:Connect(function()
if textlabel.Text == opened then
textlebel.Text = closed
end
end)
Don’t use DataStore on a localscript. I’m pretty sure it won’t work. If you have to, use remote events (client to server) to save data (unless if ur already on a serverscript)
Since you are changing the BoolValue to true from the serverscript and changing the textlabel from a local script, the server recognizes that the player has obtained the reward and fires a message to the client, which changes their textlabel
I never said I was using DataStores on a localscript.
So you’re using SurfaceGui’s? if so, then put a localscript in StarterPlayer (so the localscript goes in the player object). make a touched event and fire a remove event to the localscript and change the text on the localscript. Be sure to carry the textlabel over to the localscipt.
--SERVERSCRIPT
local chest = script.Parent? --make sure that this is a part and not a folder/model
local textlabel = chest:WaitForChild('SurfaceGui'):WaitForChild('TextLabel') --redefine this to the textlabel
local remoteEvent = --define remove event here
chest.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
local plr = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent)
if plr then
remoteEvent:FireClient(plr,textlabel)
end
end)
--LOCALSCRIPT
local remoteEvent = --define remote event here
local text1 = "Collect"
local text2 = "Can't collect"
remoteEvent.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(textlabel)
if textlabel.Text == text1 then
textlabel.Text = text2
elseif textlabel.Text == text2 then
textlabel.Text = text1
end
end)
So just change “SurfaceGui” in my script to “BillboardGui.” Also change whatever else you need to.
First of all this is not what I’m looking for. That’s just changing the text, but I need it to change back when the chest is available again.
Second, the code has absolutely no debounce so the text will keep changing in a matter of milliseconds.
To make it change back, whenever your cooldown is up, you can just set’s the player’s Opened value back to false and fire a remote event to that client that changes the textlabel back to “Collect”
Also, in my script, there is a “local” debounce
But then this goes back to what I said oh, 10 replies ago.
I’m using DataStore so it will cooldown while the player is gone, and let me ask you, “How will you change the text if there is no player?”
