Nametag Script - Sometimes/not working

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#1

i’m back . . .
this script is only sometimes working in my NEW game, i’ve used the same script (slightly changed) in other games and it’s worked perfectly fine, but in this game, sometimes the player loads with the nametags, and sometimes not.

It is important to note that I have game.Players.CharacterAutoLoads = false, and a manual :LoadCharacter() system.

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
    player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(character)
        local clone1 = game.ReplicatedStorage.Overhead1:Clone()
        local clone2 = game.ReplicatedStorage.Overhead2:Clone()
        local clone3 = game.ReplicatedStorage.Overhead3:Clone()

        clone1.Parent = character.Head
        clone1.Adornee = character.Head
        clone2.Parent = character.Head
        clone2.Adornee = character.Head
        clone3.Parent = character.Head
        clone3.Adornee = character.Head

        if player.Name == "ollieryz" then
	        clone3.Enabled = true
	        clone3.TextLabel.Text = "CREATOR"
        end

        if player.Name == "jackeryzTTV" then
	        clone3.Enabled = true
	        clone3.TextLabel.Text = "CONTENT CREATOR"
	        clone3.TextLabel.TextColor3 = Color3.fromRGB(196, 42, 37)
        end

        clone2.TextLabel.Text = player.Name
        clone1.TextLabel.Text = "beginner"
    end)
end)
#2

This is probably happening because your scripts are just executing at different times. Your LoadCharacter system might be taking too much of your computer’s resources on join, which causes your player to join before the nametag script has connected its own function to game.Players.PlayerAdded.
Servers (in-game) are given a lot of time (maybe 5 seconds) before the first player joins a new server, which means this shouldn’t cause a problem in a real game.

I just tested this in one of my games:

  • in studio, the server had roughly 1/6 of a second before my player joined

  • in-game, the server had roughly 3 seconds before my player joined

In conclusion and based on the evidence you presented, I don’t think you will have to worry about this, as it seems like an “only in studio, not in-game” bug.

If you still don't want this to happen for the sake of consistency:

You can guarantee that this doesn’t happen by requiring this script as a module under the same one that utilizes your manual :LoadCharacter() system:

--for the script you presented:
local NameTagLoader = {}

function NameTagLoader:LoadNameTag(character) --kind of redundant lol
	--everything in the player.CharacterAdded function
end

return NameTagLoader

--in the :LoadCharacter system
local NameTagLoader

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	if not module then
		module = require(script.NameTagLoader)
	end
	
	--...

	player:LoadCharacter()
	do
		local character = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
		module:LoadNameTag(character)
		--...
	end

end)

NameTagLoader = require(script.NameTagLoader) -- as an example

I don’t really have any other reason to believe this is happening unless you put some kind of silly wait in your scripts somewhere before connecting your events…

#3

Instead of using multiple if statements like that, you could reduce the amount of ends there are in the script by using elseif.

if condition1 then

elseif condition2 then

else

end
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#4

For nametags, its easier to have a script in StarterCharacterScripts than connecting a PlayerAdded and CharacterAdded events.
Also, moving it to StarterCharacterScripts should remove inconsistency.

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