In-game Log System Help

[Forummer]

You should be assigning the parent property last, not directly after the instance is cloned.

local newlog = template:Clone()
newlog.Name = "Log"..count
newlog.Text = name..": "..typer.Value.." | "..victim.Value
newlog.Visible = true
newlog.Parent = script.Parent -- Or wherever else the frame that holds it is.

PSA: Don't use Instance.new() with parent argument

I’ve discovered a pretty bad performance issue in one of top games that has to do with Instance.new and wanted to write about this, since this is not obvious unless you know the system inside out. Tthere are several ways to create a ROBLOX object in Lua: local obj = Instance.new(‘type’); fill obj fields local obj = Instance.new(‘type’, parent); fill obj fields local obj = util.Create(‘type’, { field1 = value1, … }) If you care at all about performance, please only use the first option - I wi…

The same reason applies.