TimerGUI not showing up

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#1

Hello, good day. I’m working on a timed button and i’ve encountered a problem. The code is originally from education.roblox.com but i’ve made some revisions to make the timer be on a UI instead on a part. The timer doesn’t show up on the gui but there’s no errors showing up on the Output tab.

The Code

local bridge = script.Parent
-- Gets the button as it's typed in the Explorer
local button = game.Workspace.ButtonBridge

-- Gets the part for the display
local timerPart = game.StarterGui.ScreenGui
-- Gets the Text that will display the timer
local timerText = timerPart.TextLabel

-- How long players have to cross the bridge
local timerDuration = 5
local timerStarted= false


local function startTimer()
    print("Countdown started")
	timerStarted = true
	bridge.Transparency = 0
	bridge.CanCollide = true

	-- For loop that counts down from timerDuration
	for count = timerDuration, 0, -1 do
		timerText.Text = count
		wait(1)
	end

	-- Make the bridge not walkable
	bridge.Transparency = 0.8
	bridge.CanCollide = false
	timerText.Text = ""
	timerStarted= false

end

local function buttonPressed (partTouched)
	local character = partTouched.Parent
	local humanoid = character:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("Humanoid")
	
	if humanoid and timerStarted == false then
		startTimer()
	end
end

button.Touched:Connect(buttonPressed)
#2

I think it has to do with the fact that you reference StarterGui. Try using player.PlayerGui instead.
Once a player plays a game, everything in StarterGui gets cloned in to a folder inside the player called ‘PlayerGui’. So while your script does probably work, the player isn’t going to see the changes.

I always do it this way:

local player = game.Players:WaitForChild(partTouched.Parent.Name)
local PlayerGui = player:WaitForChild(“PlayerGui”)

Edit: I forgot this was a normal script. You have to get the player from the partTouched.

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#3

I’m sorry, i’m not familiar with Lua. Could you be so kind and tell me where to put that? lol sorry

#4

It looks like this script is on the server (child of the bridge object) so you will need to get the Player who touched the button and show the timer on his/her PlayerGui

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#5

Sorry, i don’t know how to do that. Would you mind telling me how?

#6 
local bridge = script.Parent
-- Gets the button as it's typed in the Explorer
local button = game.Workspace.ButtonBridge


-- How long players have to cross the bridge
local timerDuration = 5
local timerStarted= false

local players=game:GetService("Players")

local function startTimer(player)
	print("Countdown started")
	-- Gets the part for the display
	local timerPart = player:WaitForChild("PlayerGui"):WaitForChild("ScreenGui")
	-- Gets the Text that will display the timer
	local timerText = timerPart.TextLabel
	timerStarted = true
	bridge.Transparency = 0
	bridge.CanCollide = true

	-- For loop that counts down from timerDuration
	for count = timerDuration, 0, -1 do
		timerText.Text = count
		wait(1)
	end

	-- Make the bridge not walkable
	bridge.Transparency = 0.8
	bridge.CanCollide = false
	timerText.Text = ""
	timerStarted= false

end

local function buttonPressed (partTouched)
	local character = partTouched.Parent
	local humanoid = character:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("Humanoid")
	local player=players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(character)
	if humanoid and timerStarted == false then
		startTimer(player)
	end
end

button.Touched:Connect(buttonPressed)

Try that

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#8

Inside your function that shows the gui. Below the ‘local humanoid’ stuff.

#9

Oh, my bad… I accidentally put the TextTransparency to 1. My bad…

#10

Yes, you should see the text label before the button is touched unless the gui isn’t enabled or the label is not set to visible.
I just tested the code I added above and it works ok here

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#11

Yep, it works fine now! Thank you very much!

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