Nametag Won't Always Get Added To Player

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#1

Hey there! So I made this nametag, but there is one issue. So at first It seemed like the nametag would only show for one player. But soon I discovered that the nametag would only get added to the player if the player did not have a packaged head. Example of packaged heads are “Woman Head”, “Trim Head”, and any head that is not the default.

Here is the nametag cloning code:

local serverSt = game:GetService("ServerStorage") --You can change this to ServerStorage for more security.
local nametag = script.Tag

--Functions
game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(character)
		--Varibles
		local head = character.Head
		local newtext = nametag:Clone(nametag)
		local NameTag = newtext.NameTag
		local RankTag = newtext.RankTag
		local humanoid = character.Humanoid

		humanoid.DisplayDistanceType = "None"

		--Main Text
		newtext.Parent = head
		newtext.Adornee = head
		NameTag.Text = player.Name --Changes the text to the player's name.``

Also this is not the entire code. But the cloning and parenting part.
#2

You can do a check if the Head has any special mesh or anything related, and do something about it.

#3

Firstly there shouldn’t be any parameters inside of your Clone() function

Also when placing it into the head I would personally do local Head = character:WaitForChild("Head") to 100% ensure that the head is loaded before I proceed with the rest of my code, if there’s no other errors then you should look into potentially detecting if it is a special head and if so place the gui inside of the HumanoidRootPart or UpperTorso instead

#4

Okay, I’ll see if that works. Thank you!

#5

On the first line after the character added function put

character.CharacterAppearanceLoaded:Wait()

which waits for the character to load fully, I had this problem when people had certain types of meshes as heads that took longer to load

#6

It still does not add the nametag.

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(I am morphing the player. Does this change anything?)

#7

why cant you just do it on the humanoidrootpart since all character are ensure to have one and have nothing special with it if yk what i mean.

#8

You mean the nametag should be added to the humanoidrootpart?

#9

yeah adding the nametag to the hrp would be better.

#10

Okay I’ll see if that works! Thank you.

#11

After parenting it to the humanoidrootpart. It still does not show.

#12

then it means it has to be the code.

#13

This should fix your problem unless there is something else going on, do print checks

#14

Morphing the player does do something, you’ll have to create a new tag every morph. You are changing the players character

#15

Well, for players who have normal heads but morphed
Screen Shot 2022-09-20 at 5.47.29 PM
it works.

#16

Maybe the code for different morphs is different? I can’t really help without the code for your morph system

#17

Do on what this person said, do print debugging on each sections seeing what worked and what didnt and see if anything returns nil.

#18

Okay, I’ll do that. Thank you!

#19

I did some debugging, and managed to fix the issue! Thank you. It turns out the nametag script needed to be in ServerScriptService.

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