Wait for player to load?

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#1

Hi, does anyone know how I can make a local script to wait until a player loads before executing??? Sometimes the script bugs and it just doesn’t do anything and I have just a few lines to change some GUI text.

#2

Where are you running the script and why does it need to wait for the player?

#3

In the LocalScript, you can wait for the player to fully load by using this:

local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local character = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:Wait()

It will wait for their character to be added to the game, and then continue with the rest of the script.

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#4

It’s in the player gui and I need to wait so the GUIs load in before it tries to edit them

#5

Are you referencing the guis directly or using gui:waitforchild()?

#6

I’m referencing them directly :slight_smile:

#7

Trying using gui:waitforchild() instead and see if that helps.

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#8

Try adding this to the top of your localscript

repeat wait() until game:IsLoaded()
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#9

Did that work? If so you can mark my answer as the solution so it marks the forum as solved.

#10

Personally i think doing this is a good idea, create a local script and put it in ReplicatedFrist. After put your Gui in the local script.
Put this in the local script

local ui = script:WaitForChild("TheGuiYourPutInTheLocalScript") -- This is the Gui Name in the script
repeat wait(1) until game:IsLoaded() -- Wait for game return true for IsLoaded
ui.Parent = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer:WaitForChild("PlayerGui") -- Put your GUI in the player GUI

I don’t test them so I don’t know if it works but I think it could work

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