What's wrong with this overhead GUI script

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#1

For some reason it doesn’t work, doesn’t even show up. I’ve tried another script which was just 3 lines, but it wouldn’t stop moving around when I zoomed out or jumped around, even if I attached it to the HumanoidRootPart, so I tried this instead I got of a YT tutorial. But not even this works. Does anyone know what might be wrong?

local Players = game:GetService("Players")

local connections = {}
local overHeadTemplate = script.OverHeadGui

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function (player)
	connections [player] = player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function (character)
		local NewOverHead = overHeadTemplate:Clone()
		
		NewOverHead.PlayerName.Text = player.Name
		
		NewOverHead.Parent = character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")
	end)
end)

Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function (player)
	if connections[player] then
		connections[player]:Disconnect()
		connections[player] = nil
	end
end)
#2

Can you show a Video?

Check if your UI Size is on the Offset and set it to Scale

So when setting size

X Scale , X Offset , Y Scale , Y Offset
#3

what exactly do you want me to show in the video?

#4

Well…

Your Issue??

text

#5

Okay I’ll show you everything in the video my bad

#6

Okay, here’s a video of the script, along with all of the properties and then finally the test inside of the game.

#7

Try this:

  • Remove the PlayerAdded function, CharacterAdded function, and PlayerRemoving function

  • Put the UI inside ReplicatedStorage

  • And put this Script inside StarterCharacterScripts

Server:

local p = game.Players -- Players

local char = script.Parent -- The Character
local plr = p:GetPlayerFromCharacter(char) -- Gets the LocalPlayer from the Character

local OHT = game.ReplicatedStorage.OverHeadGui:Clone() -- Clones UI

OHT.Parent = char:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart") -- Parents the UI
OHT.PlayerName.Text = plr.Name -- Applies Name to text
script:Destroy()

Should Remove itself when the Player leaves

#8

this script belongs to the ServerScriptService :+1:

local overHeadTemplate = game:GetService("ServerStorage").OverHeadGui --try puttin your overhead gui here in server storage
local players = game:GetService("Players")

players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function()
		local Player_overhead = overHeadTemplate:Clone() --clones the overhead gui
		
		player.Character:WaitForChild("Humanoid").DisplayDistanceType = Enum.HumanoidDisplayDistanceType.None -- sets the default nametag to none so no one sees it

		Player_overhead.Frame.PlayerName.Text = player.DisplayName -- or player.Name if you want the username
		Player_overhead.Parent = player.Character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart") --parents it to the humanoid
	end)
end)
#9

Try to wait until the character’s parent is not nil before getting the character’s root part:

repeat task.wait() until Character.Parent ~= nil

and put the code that is in the character added function inside a task.defer()
Also, I’d recommend you set the adornee of the billboard gui not just parenting it to a character part…
Final code should be something like that:

local Players = game:GetService("Players")

local connections = {}
local overHeadTemplate = script.OverHeadGui

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function (player)
	connections [player] = player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function (character)
		repeat task.wait() until character.parent ~= nil

		task.defer(function()
			local NewOverHead = overHeadTemplate:Clone()
			local Target = character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")
		
			NewOverHead.PlayerName.Text = player.Name
			NewOverHead.Adornee = Target
			NewOverHead.Parent = Target
		end)
	end)
end)

Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function (player)
	if connections[player] then
		connections[player]:Disconnect()
		connections[player] = nil
	end
end)

side note… the rootpart is not your best option for the overhead to be placed in or to be the adornee, use the character’s head instead.