Need help switching from viewport to frame

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You see, I’m working on this story game. I want my picture GUI in the dialogue to switch from the viewport to the player speaking.

Here’s the script I provided in ServerScriptService:

local status = game.ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("Status")
local dialogueEv = game.ReplicatedStorage.RemoteEvents.GuiEvents.Dialogue
local toggleDialogue = game.ReplicatedStorage.RemoteEvents.ToggleEvents.ToggleDialogue

local Npc = game.Workspace.NPC.Mike
local NpcImg = "rbxassetid://2128423326"
local NpcName = Npc.Name

local NpcFace = Npc.Head.face

local playerName
local playerImg

local function randomPlayer()
	local players = game.Players:GetPlayers()
	local playerNumber = math.random(1, #players)

	local chosen = players[playerNumber]

	playerImg = game.Players:GetUserThumbnailAsync(chosen.UserId, Enum.ThumbnailType.HeadShot, Enum.ThumbnailSize.Size420x420)
	playerName = chosen.Name
end

local function playerToNPC(viewport, img)
	
	viewport = game.StarterGui.Dialogue.Frame.ViewportFrame
	img = game.StarterGui.Dialogue.Frame.Player
	
	img.Visible = false
	viewport.Visible = true
end

local function NPC_ToPlayer(viewport, img)
	
	viewport = game.StarterGui.Dialogue.Frame.ViewportFrame
	img = game.StarterGui.Dialogue.Frame.Player

	img.Visible = true
	viewport.Visible = false
end

wait(3)
playerToNPC()
dialogueEv:FireAllClients(NpcImg, NpcName, "This is a test dialogue.")

wait(3)
NPC_ToPlayer()
randomPlayer()
dialogueEv:FireAllClients(playerImg, playerName, "Ok, ok then :)")

And here’s the local script that’s in a folder in StarterGui:

local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer

local dialogueEv = game.ReplicatedStorage.RemoteEvents.GuiEvents.Dialogue
local Frame = player.PlayerGui:WaitForChild("Dialogue").Frame

dialogueEv.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(PlayerImage, PlayerName, Dialogue)
	Frame.Visible = true
	Frame:WaitForChild("TextLabel").Text = PlayerName
	Frame:WaitForChild("Player").Image = PlayerImage
	for ticker = 1, #Dialogue, 1 do
		Frame:WaitForChild("Ticker").Text = string.sub(Dialogue, 1, ticker)
		wait(0.04)
	end
end)

Problem: the picture only stays on the NPC when a player is talking. I’m pretty sure the issue is coming from the first script above.

Any suggestions on how to debug this?

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StarterGui is copied into each player’s PlayerGui, after that server script cannot edit the GUI, you can keep the events but you need to change the client code to do the visibility changes.

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I’m kind of new to making story games so how do I change the client code?

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Change your local scripts is what I mean

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