Replicated storage to player gui issue

[PsychoThroniac (sloosh)]

Hey developers, I’m currently stuck on an issue regarding where to put my scripts that interact with the player’s GUI. Usually, I would put it in starter GUI in a separate folder, however recently I’ve been cloning all my UI elements from replicated storage in hopes of saving Memory usage in my game.

Everything was going fine as I put my scripts in replicated storage and cloned them into the player’s starter GUI until I realized that every time the player dies it wipes all the cloned elements from the starter GUI. I fixed this by re-cloning all the scripts and UI elements every time a character dies however I’ve come to realize this isn’t efficient and could cause strain on the memory usage.

Any suggestions on were I could store my scripts? I’ve tried starting player scripts but all the variable references in the script become nil because of the Ui’s being wiped every time a player dies

[StrongBigeMan9]

@PsychoThroniac

Everything was going fine as I put my scripts in replicated storage and cloned them into the player’s starter GUI until I realized that every time the player dies it wipes all the cloned elements from the starter GUI

Try turning off the ResetOnSpawn property for the ScreenGuis so that it will not be removed from the PlayerGui container each time the player’s Character respawns.

[PsychoThroniac (sloosh)]

Thank you! I just realized that if my guis are in folders then they will still be wiped. Is there any workaround to this whilst keeping it organized?

[StrongBigeMan9]

@PsychoThroniac

I just realized that if my guis are in folders then they will still be wiped

Oh that’s an issue that has been around for a long while, but fortunately, I found a workaround for that a couple years back:

@StrongBigeMan9

If you replace the folders with ScreenGuis and disable the ResetOnSpawn property for the GUI on the top layer to false, its children / objects inside of the top-layer object will no longer disregard that property.

This means that the following hierarchy:

Could be adjusted to this:

And it works as expected (so long as the new “ExampleContainer” has that property disabled). This is the only solution I could think of that wouldn’t require major changes while the bug report remains unsolved.

[PsychoThroniac (sloosh)]

I find it unfortunate that this is still a lingering problem after all these years. Hopefully, they decide to do something about this shortly. Thanks anyway!