My name tag script is making characters not load in properly after dying

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#1

I have a name tag script for everyone, owner, and coowner, but i’m showing the owner to fix and then i’ll edit the others. Basically the name tag script works, but if you die or reset for some reason your character spawns in as the default and with grey skin

local name = plr.Name
local playerinplayers = game.Players:FindFirstChild(plr.Name)
if playerinplayers ~= nil then
playerinplayers.CanLoadCharacterAppearance = false

plr.Humanoid.DisplayDistanceType = "None"
if name ~= "5O50s" then --Put Your Name Here
game.Lighting.NameTag.Text.Text = name
game.Lighting.NameTag:Clone().Parent = plr.Head else
game.Lighting.NameTag.Text.TextStrokeTransparency = 0
game.Lighting.NameTag.Text.Text = name
game.Lighting.Owner.Text3.Visible = true
game.Lighting.Owner:Clone().Parent = plr.Head
game.Lighting.NameTag:Clone().Parent = plr.Head

		end
	end
end)

Idk what’s causing it bc i’m still fairly new to scripting and I’m unable to figure a lot for my own

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#2

Is this the entire script? It looks like you cut something out at the top.

I’m assuming this is in a PlayerAdded function, which means the code will only run on join. You will need to add the name tag on every CharacterAdded because the name tag will be destroyed upon respawn.

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
     player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(character)
          -- add name tag
     end)
end)
#3

so sorry, i cut of the top

game.Workspace.ChildAdded:connect(function(plr)
local name = plr.Name
local playerinplayers = game.Players:FindFirstChild(plr.Name)
if playerinplayers ~= nil then
playerinplayers.CanLoadCharacterAppearance = false

plr.Humanoid.DisplayDistanceType = "None"
if name ~= "5O50s" then --Put Your Name Here
game.Lighting.NameTag.Text.Text = name
game.Lighting.NameTag:Clone().Parent = plr.Head else
game.Lighting.NameTag.Text.TextStrokeTransparency = 0
game.Lighting.NameTag.Text.Text = name
game.Lighting.Owner.Text3.Visible = true
game.Lighting.Owner:Clone().Parent = plr.Head
game.Lighting.NameTag:Clone().Parent = plr.Head

		end
	end
end)
#4

Yeah, the problem is your adding the name tag when the player joins, so it will only show until they respawn. You also shouldn’t use Workspace.ChildAdded to detect when players join, because game.Players.PlayerAdded is much easier to use and is designed specifically for that purpose.

You should add the nametag inside of a Player.CharacterAdded listener, as I wrote in my previous post.

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
     player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(character)
          -- add name tag
     end)
end)
#5

now the output is saying “Humanoid is not a valid member of Player”. And the nametag completely stopped working

	player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(character)
		local name = player.Name
		local playerinplayers = game.Players:FindFirstChild(player.Name)
		if playerinplayers ~= nil then
			playerinplayers.CanLoadCharacterAppearance = false
			
			player.Humanoid.DisplayDistanceType = "None"
			if name ~= "5O50s" then
				game.Lighting.NameTag.Text.Text = name
			game.Lighting.NameTag:Clone().Parent = player.Head else
				game.Lighting.NameTag.Text.TextStrokeTransparency = 0
				game.Lighting.NameTag.Text.Text = name
				game.Lighting.Owner.Text3.Visible = true
				game.Lighting.Owner:Clone().Parent = player.Head
				game.Lighting.NameTag:Clone().Parent = player.Head
			end
		end
	end)
end)
#6

you are trying to index the player which is within Players, you should be doing character.Humanoid instead

#7

i did that and it doesn’t work AND the characters are grey again

	player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(character)
		local name = player.Name
		local playerinplayers = game.Players:FindFirstChild(player.Name)
		if playerinplayers ~= nil then
			playerinplayers.CanLoadCharacterAppearance = false
			
			character.Humanoid.DisplayDistanceType = "None"
			if name ~= "5O50s" then
				game.Lighting.NameTag.Text.Text = name
			game.Lighting.NameTag:Clone().Parent = player.Head else
				game.Lighting.NameTag.Text.TextStrokeTransparency = 0
				game.Lighting.NameTag.Text.Text = name
				game.Lighting.Owner.Text3.Visible = true
				game.Lighting.Owner:Clone().Parent = player.Head
				game.Lighting.NameTag:Clone().Parent = player.Head
			end
		end
	end)
end)
#8

What do you mean it doesn’t work, can you show us your output dialog so we can see the errors? also I don’t entirely understand why you want to do this playerinplayers.CanLoadCharacterAppearance = false, If you are referring to players going grey then this is because you have added this line of code which will prevent their avatar from loading in. VIA grey skin with no cosmetics

#9

Remove playerinplayers.CanLoadCharacterAppearance = false, it will turn your player grey when you spawn in.

#10

I would suggest CharacterAppearanceLoaded on this one. This way it’ll load the name tag after the character is loaded. This helps because every asset the character needs is loaded. CharacterAdded in certain cases may not load the name tag at all sometimes. So I suggest using this over CharacterAdded instead and remove

playerinplayers.CanLoadCharacterAppearance = false

this line is kind of obvious, as it states doesn’t load the character appearance. This is not something I’d use unless giving a custom character appearance personally.