Trouble displaying part health on a text label

[ROBORAPTOR2468 (Robo)]

Hello! What I am trying to do is simply display the health of a part in the workspace (it is in several folders) with a text label in startergui. I basically want to display the health of the part as it will act as the health indicator for a base.

I have used several lua script generators as I am obviously not a scripter. However there are no errors showing up and it is obviously not working.

I have tried researching where I could do this however I could not find any resources that were able to help me.

---- Script (In the textlabel) ----
local BaseHealthPart = game.Workspace.Kingdoms[“Coastal Colony”].BaseHealthPart

local textLabel = script.Parent:FindFirstChild(“CoastalHealthLabel”)

if BaseHealthPart and textLabel then
textLabel.Text = "Health: " … tostring(BaseHealthPart.Health)
end

[JayzYeah32]

Firstly, it seems the location to the textLabel was incorrect (looking in the wrong directory).
Secondly, I made it a changed event so that it should update automatically.

local BaseHealthPart = game.Workspace.Kingdoms[“Coastal Colony”].BaseHealthPart
local textLabel = script.Parent -- changed to fix the textLabel location

BaseHealthPart:GetAttributeChangedSignal("Health"):connect(function()
	textLabel.Text = "Health: ".. tostring(BaseHealthPart.Health)
end)

[Abstler]

I dont know what the “BaseHealthPart” is but if its a int/number value then use tostring(BaseHealthPart.Health.Value)

[ROBORAPTOR2468 (Robo)]

Hey! I tried this script and it didn’t seem to work. So because of that I should probably clarify where everything is at, and how they are arranged. Keep in mind I did rename a few things. But I basically have the workspace stuff, the gui stuff, and how the text label(s) are arranged on the screen (The one on the top left is the CoastalHealthLabel). Hopefully this helps.

[Abstler]

Hey, think I know why it wont work. In your script the textlabel variable is this:

script.Parent:FindFirstChild(“CoastalHealthLabel”)

However because the script IS inside the textlabel that means the “FindFirstChild(“CoastalHealthLabel”)” is just trying to find a instance within the textlabel. Use this as the variable instead:

local textLabel = script.Parent

Tell me if this helps!

[ROBORAPTOR2468 (Robo)]

Hey! So I did try this after @JayzYeah32 pointed it out to me however for some reason it still wont display the parts health. If you need me to and if you think its worth the trouble, I could possibly share the game with either of you.

---- Script ----
local BaseHealthPart = game.Workspace.Kingdoms.CoastalColony.CoastalBaseHealthPart.BaseHealth
local textLabel = script.Parent – changed to fix the textLabel location

BaseHealthPart:GetAttributeChangedSignal(“Health”):connect(function()
textLabel.Text = "Health: "… tostring(BaseHealthPart.Health)
end)

[Abstler]

Didnt realize he said that, I can’t try to replicate the script right now but i noticed in the “textLabel.Text” area you put 3 dots. Try putting 2 dots and if that does help try to use print()

[3Xp01tME (Sparsrsa)]

local plr = game.Players.LocalPlayer

local healthLabel = plr.PlayerGui.ScreenGui.health

local part = workspace.Part
local hisHealth = part:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("IntValue")

healthLabel.Text = "Health: "..hisHealth.Value

hisHealth.Changed:Connect(function()
	healthLabel.Text = "Health: "..hisHealth.Value
end)

Change the humanoid to an int, or keep it humanoid

[ROBORAPTOR2468 (Robo)]

That’s a good idea, but I want this part to act as a damage taker in a way. When a player hits the part it subtracts health from the part/humanoid then reduces the health on the UI.

[3Xp01tME (Sparsrsa)]

easy! Just do part.Int.Value -= damage (or what ever you call the int value)

[JayzYeah32]

It is likely because you are using a script and not a localscript in the players GUI.
A script runs on the server whereas a localscript is intended to run on the client.

Switching the script for a localscript should do the trick.

local humanoid = game:GetService("Workspace").Kingdoms.CoastalColony.CoastalBaseHealthPart.BaseHealth -- fixed the path location
local textLabel = script.Parent

humanoid:GetAttributeChangedSignal("Health"):connect(function()
	textLabel.Text = "Health: ".. tostring(humanoid.Health)
end)

[ROBORAPTOR2468 (Robo)]

Hey! So, I think we’re getting somewhere. There is an actual error this time, I’m not entirely sure why it is referencing a model? Should I simplify where everything is at? But at least is is recognizing the parts this time.

[Abstler]

Try using :WaitForChild("CoastalBaseHealthPart") instead

[ROBORAPTOR2468 (Robo)]

Hey! So I tried this as well and I got an error and wondered if you understood what it meant.

Error:

----// Script //-----
local humanoid = game:FindFirstChild(“CoastalBaseHealthPart”)
local textLabel = script.Parent – changed to fix the textLabel location

humanoid:GetAttributeChangedSignal(“Health”):connect(function()
textLabel.Text = "Health: "… tostring(humanoid.Health)
end)

[2112Jay]

@ROBORAPTOR2468

I have used several lua script generators as I am obviously not a scripter.

You’re main problem here is thinking AI can make up for research.
First few steps to new things, should be looking for documentation, examples and tutorials.
AI has a way of skipping nuances that come back to haunt you later…
in turn it ends up being copying and not learning.

How to make a Health Bar Gui in Roblox Studio ← tutorial
Simple Health Bar GUI ← toolbox premade you can reverse engineer
Working with these will gain skills over copying AI.

[Abstler]

First issue is that the humanoid variable is wrong, not sure if that’s a mistake but yeah. Anyways try using GetPropertyChangedSignal.

Should look something like this:

humanoid:GetPropertyChangedSignal("Health"):connect(function()
	textLabel.Text = "Health: " .. tostring(humanoid.Health)
end)

Pretty sure the problem was that you were using GetAttributeChangedSignal and not GetPropertyChangedSignal.

[ROBORAPTOR2468 (Robo)]

So, I have tried that and it shows the same error for that as well. I have also tried this script but again said the same thing.

----// Script //----
local humanoid = game:FindFirstChild(“CoastalBaseHealthPart”)
local textLabel = script.Parent – changed to fix the textLabel location

humanoid:FindFirstChild(“CoastalBaseHealth”).Health:connect(function()
textLabel.Text = "Health: "… tostring(humanoid.Health)
end)

[Abstler]

Not sure if you changed where the humanoid is located but try this:

local humanoid = workspace.Kingdoms.CoastalColony.CoastalBaseHealthPart.BaseHealth
local textLabel = script.Parent

humanoid:GetPropertyChangedSignal("Health"):connect(function()
	textLabel.Text = "Health: ".. tostring(humanoid.Health)
end)

If you changed the humanoid to be somewhere else then its most likely because you’re using game:FindFirstChild(). Assuming the humanoid is in workspace try using workspace:FindFirstChild().