I am trying to make an overhead GUI that includes gradients for some of the different options. Currently everything works but when i go to select the ones that should be gradients they just appear white. Im pretty sure the reason for this is I am using the text colour of the text button to show above the head and for the gradients they are white.
My question is is there a way to either have the actual TextColor3 value as a gradient or how i can work around this and still achieve the gradient.
Here is the code which applies the overhead GUI:
wait(0.5)
for i,v in pairs(script.Parent.Titles:GetChildren()) do
v.MouseButton1Down:connect(function()
local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local leaderstats = player:FindFirstChild("CoinStat")
if leaderstats then
local Coins = leaderstats:FindFirstChild("Coins")
if Coins then
local Cost = v:FindFirstChild("Cost")
if Cost then
if Coins.Value >= Cost.Value then
game.ReplicatedStorage.GamerTagAdd:FireServer(v.Name,v.TextColor3)
end
end
end
end
end)
end
I have set the gradient i just need it to apply when i apply the overhead GUI. the problem i have is that
if Coins.Value >= Cost.Value then
game.ReplicatedStorage.GamerTagAdd:FireServer(v.Name,v.TextColor3)
end
this part is what makes the overhead gui and it uses the textcolor3 for the colour, however the colour of the gradient is done within a UIGradient on the actual text button
I do not quite get what you’re asking. Are you trying to change the gradient of the text? Also, the event doesn’t show much can you show the server code that applies the gradient?
I am trying to make it so that the gui above my head in game shows the same gradient as the text on the ui that i achieved using a UIGradient.
1 screenshot showing UI in game
1 screenshot showing regular text colour working fine
1 screenshot showing one that i would like to have a gradient just appearing white.
This screenshot shows how i achieved the gradient for the UI.
Here is every seperate code that controls the overhead gui.
wait(0.5)
for i,v in pairs(script.Parent.Titles:GetChildren()) do
v.MouseButton1Down:connect(function()
local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local leaderstats = player:FindFirstChild("CoinStat")
if leaderstats then
local Coins = leaderstats:FindFirstChild("Coins")
if Coins then
local Cost = v:FindFirstChild("Cost")
if Cost then
if Coins.Value >= Cost.Value then
game.ReplicatedStorage.GamerTagAdd:FireServer(v.Name,v.TextColor3)
end
end
end
end
end)
end
game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(function(player)
player.CharacterAdded:connect(function(char)
wait(1)
local GamerTag = game.Lighting.GamerTag:Clone()
local Head = char:FindFirstChild("Head")
if Head then
GamerTag.Parent = Head
local TextLabel = GamerTag:FindFirstChild("TextLabel")
if TextLabel then
local GamerTagText = player:FindFirstChild("GamerTagText")
local GamerTagColor = player:FindFirstChild("GamerTagColor")
if GamerTagText and GamerTagColor then
TextLabel.Text = GamerTagText.Value
TextLabel.TextColor3 = GamerTagColor.Value
end
end
end
end)
end)
function onwin(player,Value,Color)
local GamerTagText = player:FindFirstChild("GamerTagText")
local GamerTagColor = player:FindFirstChild("GamerTagColor")
if GamerTagText and GamerTagColor then
GamerTagText.Value = Value
GamerTagColor.Value = Color
end
local Head = player.Character:FindFirstChild("Head")
if Head then
local GamerTag = Head:FindFirstChild("GamerTag")
if GamerTag then
local TextLabel = GamerTag:FindFirstChild("TextLabel")
if TextLabel then
local GamerTagText = player:FindFirstChild("GamerTagText")
local GamerTagColor = player:FindFirstChild("GamerTagColor")
if GamerTagText and GamerTagColor then
TextLabel.Text = Value
TextLabel.TextColor3 = Color
end
end
end
end
end
game.ReplicatedStorage.GamerTagAdd.OnServerEvent:connect(onwin)
local DataStore = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local ds = DataStore:GetDataStore("GamerTagTextSaveSystemDataSet")
game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(function(player)
local GamerTagText = Instance.new("StringValue",player)
GamerTagText.Name = "GamerTagText"
local GamerTagColor = Instance.new("Color3Value",player)
GamerTagColor.Name = "GamerTagColor"
GamerTagColor.Value = Color3.fromRGB(28,255,168)
GamerTagText.Value = ds:GetAsync(player.UserId) or ""
ds:SetAsync(player.UserId, GamerTagText.Value)
GamerTagText.Changed:connect(function()
ds:SetAsync(player.UserId, GamerTagText.Value)
end)
end)
game.Players.PlayerRemoving:connect(function(player)
ds:SetAsync(player.UserId, player.GamerTagText.Value)
end)
You can’t change the text’s gradient like this. The way the effect works is by having a UIGradient that’s changing the color parented under the text label, the text label having a background transparency of 1, and its text color set to white.
This means if you wanted to change the gradient you’d have to directly change the UiGradients color, not the textColor. The problem with your code is that you rely on what I’m assuming is a Color3 value to save your colors which won’t work. Because most of the settings is on the server you should create a table full of ColorSequences.
Example:
local GamerTagColors = {
["Divine Hunter"] = ColorSequence.new({
ColorSequenceKeypoint.new(0, Color3.new(1,0,0)),
ColorSequenceKeypoint.new(1, Color3.new(0,0,1))
})
}
--Inside the CharacterAdded
if GamerTagText and GamerTagColor then
TextLabel.Text = GamerTagText.Value
TextLabel.UIGradient.Color = GamerTagColors[GamerTagText.Value]
end
--Inside the local script
game.ReplicatedStorage.GamerTagAdd:FireServer(v.Name)
--Inside serverscript event
if GamerTagText and GamerTagColor then
TextLabel.Text = Value
TextLabel.UIGradient.Color = GamerTagColors[Value]
end
Basically, you will save your gradients in a table with the character names being the key to them. If the text labels have the same structure as the one on your screen GUI then all you will need to do is index the table and set its value to the value of the text label’s UIGradient color
