Simple Text Changing Script

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Hello!

I am quite new to scripting and can’t figure out why my script isn’t changing the text on my text label…

I am attempting to create a simple dialogue exchange with an NPC. How my script works is the player interacts with a proximity prompt, then connecting a function to the proximity prompt being triggered it will edit the text to say “Hello!”

Nothing is coming up in the output and I’m quite confused on how I should fix this.

local ui = script.Parent.Parent
local proxes = game.Workspace["Teleports/ProximityPromts"]

proxes.NPCDialog.Tibb12Dialog.ProximityPrompt.Triggered:Connect(function()
	script.Parent.DiolaugeText.Text = ("Hello!")
end)

DialougeText = TextLabel

Hopefully some of you smarter people can help me out with finding a solution.

Thank you!

2

First of all, you don’t need the brackets around Hello. Simply "Hello" should work. :smiley:

I do have a few questions to help fix the problem though. To begin with, is the NPC interaction a ScreenGui or SurfaceGui? Could you please show us the explorer with the proximity prompt and text to show us the ancestry.

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It is a ScreenGui

Here is where the ProximityPrompt is
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Here is where the text is
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Thanks!

4

Hm, this is interesting. From what I can see, there’s no errors in the syntax. I believe the issue is coming from the object being referenced before it loads in, which messes up the script.

local proxFolder = game.Workspace:WaitForChild("Teleports/ProximityPromts")
local dialogueProx = proxFolder.NPCDialog.Tibb12Dialog:WaitForChild("ProximityPrompt")

dialogueProx.Triggered:Connect(function()

    print("ProximityPrompt Triggered") -- For debugging, remove once working
    local textBox = script.Parent.DiolaugeText
	textBox.Text = "Hello!"
end)
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5

This worked!

I honestly have no idea why mine wasn’t working in the first place, as our scripts are so similar but hey I won’t complain.

Thank you so much!