ScreenGui not appearing on player respawn

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#1

Hi! I’m trying to make a GUI Panel for fun, and I want only my friends to get the panel. However, I realized that the Panel does not appear if the player has respawned. The Panel is in ReplicatedStorage, and I am using a Script in ServerScriptService to give the GUI to players.

At first, I did

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
if plr:IsFriendsWith(1363219555) or plr.Name == "alxzile" then
local gui = game.ReplicatedStorage.Panel:Clone()
gui.Parent = plr.PlayerGui
end
end)

For the most part, this worked when the player initially joined the game, but the Panel did not respawn when the player respawned.

Then, I thought that this was because the Panel was getting removed from the PlayerGui when the player died, so I added

plr.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(plr)

This didn’t fix anything and the issue remained the same.

After tons of trial and error, I tried rewriting the script and replacing the Panel. I made the Panel a child of starter gui, and rewrote the script in ServerScriptService to:

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
	plr.CharacterAdded:Connect(function()
	if not plr:IsFriendsWith(1363219555) or plr.Name == "alxzile" then
		plr.PlayerGui.Panel:Destroy()
		end
	end)
end)

This did not work at all. I did not even get the Panel when I joined the game.

Lastly, I thought that the issue was caused by the ResetOnSpawn property glitching out, so I added, to the original script,

for _, v in ipairs(plr.PlayerGui.Panel:GetDescendants()) do 
				if v:IsA("ScreenGui") or ("TextLabel") or ("TextButton") or ("ImageLabel") then
					v.ResetOnSpawn = true

Needless to say, the issue was indeed not caused by the ResetOnSpawn property being weird.

Furthermore, how could I about fixing this issue? I’ve looked through numerous devforum posts, however none of them had a matching issue/solution.

Thanks in advance.

#2

ResetOnSpawn is only a property of ScreenGuis, that’s disabled on the original ScreenGui right?

#3

I’m checking right now, and the ResetOnSpawn property is enabled on all of the ScreenGuis of the panel. I didn’t know it was only a property of ScreenGuis though, thanks for informing me.

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#4

Just disable that, that’s the reason why it keeps vanishing

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#5

Reset on spawn removes the GUI when the player dies. “If set to false, this LayerCollector will only be cloned once into each Player PlayerGui , and the LayerCollector will not be deleted when the player respawns.”

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#6

Oh, I see. I thought it was the opposite. Thanks for answering so quickly!