Text animation function won't fire

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#1

Might as well start with answering the questions since it’s my first post…

  1. What do you want to achieve? When I press a button, I want a RemoteEvent to fire causing a cutscene with dialogue to play. The RemoteEvent fires and the cutscene plays.

  2. What is the issue? When the RemoteEvent fires the text will not play. The text is a scripted animation that writes itself out. This is the script I currently have

local DialogueText = script.Parent.Text

text1 = 'Will this darn thing ever work >:('

game.ReplicatedStorage.Cutscene1.OnClientEvent:Connect(function()
	for i = 1, #text1 do
		DialogueText = string.sub(text1, 1, i)
		wait(0.05)
	end
end)

wait(1)
DialogueText = ' '
  1. What solutions have you tried so far?
  • I have tried separating the text animation and the cutscene player into two different functions which are supposed to fire at the same time
    • Originally like this (I am posting the entire script just in case)
local TweenService = game:GetService('TweenService')

local Camera = game.Workspace.Camera

local CutsceneTime = 3

local TweenInfo = TweenInfo.new(
	CutsceneTime,
	Enum.EasingStyle.Sine,
	Enum.EasingDirection.Out,
	0,
	false,
	0
)

local CutscenePlaying = false

local DialogueText1 = script.Parent.ScreenGui.Dialogue.Text --This is where the variables for the text animation are if you couldn't find them
text1 = 'This isnt going well :/'

function Tween(part1,part2)
	Camera.CameraType = Enum.CameraType.Scriptable
	Camera.CFrame = part1.CFrame
	
	local tween = TweenService:Create(Camera, TweenInfo, {CFrame = part2.CFrame})
	tween:Play()
	
	wait(CutsceneTime)
	
	Camera.CameraType = Enum.CameraType.Custom
end

game.ReplicatedStorage.Cutscene1.OnClientEvent:Connect(function()
	if CutscenePlaying == false then
		CutscenePlaying = true
		Tween(game.Workspace["Cutscene1-1"],game.Workspace["Cutscene1-2"])
		wait(3)
        for i = 1, #text1 do
           DialogueText1 = string.sub(text1, 1, i)
           wait(0.05)
        end
        wait(1)
        DialogueText1 = ' '
        CutscenePlaying = false
	end
end)

  • I moved the text animation function to a separate script (It was a script, not a LocalScript) inside the TextLabel

  • Realizing my mistake when going back in my notes (I knew I was gonna forget how to do the script), I go back and change the script in the TextLabel to a LocalScript

Still, after everything, my notes failed me, and when I click the button, the cutscene will play, but the text doesn’t play.

My screen recording software is having problems so, unfortunately, I cannot give a screen recording.

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#2

DialogueText is defined as the value of the Text property of the current Gui element, it does not point towards the property. Properties don’t dynamically update, you need to set the value every time you want it to change. Here you’re only changing the variable not the property.

-- Variable should be:
local DialogueText = script.Parent

-- And in the for loop:
DialogueText.Text = string.sub(text1, 1, i)

It’s working but you’re updating the wrong thing.

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#3

I didn’t know that, thanks so much!