Loading screen tips don't work?

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1

You can write your topic however you want, but you need to answer these questions:

  1. What do you want to achieve? Keep it simple and clear!
    I wan’t to achieve a loading screen with random tips.
  2. What is the issue? Include screenshots / videos if possible!
    While the loading bar itself works, the tips don’t appear.
  3. What solutions have you tried so far? Did you look for solutions on the Developer Hub?
    I have tried to move the Tips script (which is grouped with the loading screen script) to another one.
local replicatedFirst = game:GetService("ReplicatedFirst")
local contentProvider = game:GetService("ContentProvider")
local tweenService = game:GetService("TweenService")
local players = game:GetService("Players")


local player = players.LocalPlayer
local playerGui = player:WaitForChild("PlayerGui")
local loadingScreen = script:WaitForChild("LoadingScreen")
replicatedFirst:RemoveDefaultLoadingScreen()
repeat task.wait() until game:IsLoaded()
local assets = game:GetDescendants()

local clonedLoadingScreen = loadingScreen:Clone()
clonedLoadingScreen.Parent = playerGui

for i = 1,  #assets do 
	local asset = assets[i]
	local percentage = math.round(i / #assets * 100)
	
	contentProvider:PreloadAsync({asset})
	
	clonedLoadingScreen.BackRound.DisplayPercentege.Text = percentage.."%"
	clonedLoadingScreen.BackRound.DissplayAssetsLoaded.Text = "Loading Assets: "..i.."/"..#assets
	
	tweenService:Create(clonedLoadingScreen.BackRound.BarBackround.Bar, TweenInfo.new(0.2,Enum.EasingStyle.Sine, Enum.EasingDirection.Out), {Size = UDim2.fromScale(percentage/100, 1)}):Play()
	
	
	if i == #assets then 
		task.wait(1)
	end
	
	if not game:IsLoaded() then
		repeat
			local tips = {"If the lights flicker in a room, hide in a vent or freezing pod.", "If a crate has green glow, open it! It contains something special.", "Always co-operate with your teammates if you have any."}
			local tweentip1 = tweenService:Create(clonedLoadingScreen.BackRound.Tips, TweenInfo.new(0.25), {TextTransparency = 1})
			local tweentip2 = tweenService:Create(clonedLoadingScreen.BackRound.Tips, TweenInfo.new(0.25), {TextTransparency = 0})
			local tweentip3 = tweenService:Create(clonedLoadingScreen.BackRound.Tips, TweenInfo.new(0.25), {TextStrokeTransparency = 1})
			local tweentip4 = tweenService:Create(clonedLoadingScreen.BackRound.Tips, TweenInfo.new(0.25), {TextStrokeTransparency = 0})
			clonedLoadingScreen.BackRound.Tips.Text = "Tip : ".. tips[math.random(1,#tips)]
			wait(4)
			tweentip1:Play()
			tweentip3:Play()
			wait(0.25)
			tweentip2:Play()
			tweentip4:Play()
			clonedLoadingScreen.BackRound.Tips.Text = "Tip : ".. tips[math.random(1,#tips)]
		until game:IsLoaded() == true
	end
end



for i, v in pairs(clonedLoadingScreen:GetDescendants()) do 
	if v:IsA("Frame") then
		tweenService:Create(v, TweenInfo.new(0.5), {BackgroundTransparency = 1}):Play()
	elseif v:IsA("TextLabel") then 
		tweenService:Create(v, TweenInfo.new(0.5), {TextTransparency = 1}):Play()
	end
end
2

What’s specifically the issue, is the text not visible, is the tip not rotating though the array, etc.

3

Wasn’t excepting a reply so fast. The issue is the text is not visible, but the text label is there.

4

Maybe put the tips code in a separate script and see if that works.

5

Did you make sure that the TextTransparency was changing as expected in the explorer tab? It could be because .Visible is set to false instead of TextTransparency being set to 1 initially.

6

Yes, while in game, TextTransparency is 0, Text.Visible is true, just the text doesn’t change.

7

This is a good point, we can also fix some minor things in the tips loop:

local tips = {"If the lights flicker in a room, hide in a vent or freezing pod.", "If a crate has green glow, open it! It contains something special.", "Always co-operate with your teammates if you have any."}

local tipsToSelect = {table.unpack(tips)}

local tweenVisible = tweenService:Create(clonedLoadingScreen.BackRound.Tips, TweenInfo.new(0.25), {TextTransparency = 0, TextStrokeTransparency = 0})
local tweenInvisible = tweenService:Create(clonedLoadingScreen.BackRound.Tips, TweenInfo.new(0.25), {TextTransparency = 1, TextStrokeTransparency = 1})
if not game:IsLoaded() then
		repeat
			local selectedNum = math.random(1,# tipsToSelect)
			local selected = tipsToSelect[selectedNum]
			table.remove(tipsToSelect, selectedNum)
			
			clonedLoadingScreen.BackRound.Tips.Text = "Tip : "..  selected
			task.wait(0.25)
			tweenVisible:Play()
			task.wait(4)
			tweenInvisible:Play()
		until game:IsLoaded() == true
	end
9

Is Tips a Frame instance? Because normally when people name their TextLabel as “Text”, they tend to forget adding another .Text (Text.Text)

10

Tips is a TextLabel. Text is the Text property

11

The 2 other tweens are for the TextStroke, so that the Text doesn’t turn white when fading away

12

Yeah I just realized that, fixed my code snippet.

13

Yea but sadly it doesn’t work.

14

Are there any error messages, and did you put it in a new script?

15

Nope, no errors in the output and i did put it in a new script.
Here’s the new script :

local TweenService = game:GetService("TweenService")
local clonedLoadingScreen = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer.PlayerGui:WaitForChild("LoadingScreen")

if not game:IsLoaded() then
	repeat
		local tips = {"If the lights flicker in a room, hide in a vent or freezing pod.", "If a crate has green glow, open it! It contains something special.", "Always co-operate with your teammates if you have any."}
		local tweentip1 = TweenService:Create(clonedLoadingScreen.BackRound.Tips, TweenInfo.new(0.25), {TextTransparency = 1})
		local tweentip2 = TweenService:Create(clonedLoadingScreen.BackRound.Tips, TweenInfo.new(0.25), {TextTransparency = 0})
		local tweentip3 = TweenService:Create(clonedLoadingScreen.BackRound.Tips, TweenInfo.new(0.25), {TextStrokeTransparency = 1})
		local tweentip4 = TweenService:Create(clonedLoadingScreen.BackRound.Tips, TweenInfo.new(0.25), {TextStrokeTransparency = 0})
		clonedLoadingScreen.BackRound.Tips.Text = "Tip : ".. tips[math.random(1,#tips)]
		wait(4)
		tweentip1:Play()
		tweentip3:Play()
		wait(0.25)
		tweentip2:Play()
		tweentip4:Play()
	until game:IsLoaded() == true
end
16

Try using my edited code snippet, it might work, also the game might load before the code runs.

17

The updated code doesn’t work, but you make a fair point about the game loading before the code runs.

18

Use print() everywhere around the code and let us know which print() doesn’t appear (basically where does the code get stuck in a loop)

19

Maybe try putting the code in the loop in a function, then fire the function, then do the loop.

20

It doesn’t print anything strangely enough?

21

Even if you put it at the first line of the code?