When reparenting gui, it's not visible

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So I’m trying to make a gun and if you shoot it makes a gui showing the damage. The problem is that the gui is not showing. I checked the difference between a gui in workspace and in server storage and they’re both the same. I don’t know what happened :frowning: There’s no error in the output, so I don’t know what to fix. Here’s my code:

local billboard = Instance.new("BillboardGui")
billboard.Parent = game.ServerStorage
local label = Instance.new("TextLabel")
label.Parent = billboard
label.BackgroundTransparency = 1
label.Font = Enum.Font.Oswald
label.TextColor3 = Color3.new(0.986053, 0, 0.0271153)
label.TextSize = 50
label.Visible = true
label.TextStrokeTransparency = 0
local bullets = 5
local reload = false
local config = script.Parent.Configuration
script.Parent.Equipped:Connect(function(mouse)
	mouse.Button1Down:Connect(function()
		if bullets > 1 then
			if reload == false then
				local part = mouse.Target
				local hum = part.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
				if hum then
					if part.Name == "Head" then
						hum.Health -= config.Headshot.Value
						billboard.Parent = part.Parent --Temp
						billboard.Adornee = part.Parent.Head --Temp
						billboard.AlwaysOnTop = true
						label.Text = tostring(config.Headshot.Value) --Temp
						print("HEADSHOT")
						bullets -= 1
					elseif part.Name ~= "Head" then
						hum.Health -= config.NormalShot.Value
						billboard.Parent = part.Parent --Temp
						billboard.Adornee = part.Parent.Head --Temp
						billboard.AlwaysOnTop = true --Temp
						label.Text = tostring(config.Headshot.Value) --Temp
						print("Successful Shot")
						bullets -= 1
					end
				end	
			end

The rest is just gun reloading. Also don’t mind the temp comments.
I would greatly appreciate it if you could help me. Thanks :smile:

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				elseif part.Name ~= "Head" then
					hum.Health -= config.NormalShot.Value
					billboard.Parent = part.Parent --Temp
                                            billboard.ZIndex = 1
					billboard.Adornee = part.Parent.Head --Temp
					billboard.AlwaysOnTop = true --Temp
					label.Text = tostring(config.Headshot.Value) --Temp
					print("Successful Shot")
					bullets -= 1
				end
3

Still doesn’t work. Also Billboard GUIs don’t have ZIndex property, so I set it to the label.

4

billboard.Parent = part.Parent.HumanoidRootPart

5

When saying billboard.Parent = part.Parent just try saying billboard.Parent = part

6

Also where is the local script at?

7

The local script is inside the gun tool. Also I tested out placing a gui and text label directly in the model (Not test running) and it worked fine.

8

Just tried it and it still doesn’t work.

9

If you check the explorer while testing the script, does the BillboardGui show up where you’re trying to parent it or does it not exist at all?

10

I keep double-checking multiple times, and it appears in the model when I test the script. Strange how it doesn’t show up though…

11

Of course this doesn’t work because you need a server script in order to do so, along with remote events.

12

I get what you mean, and I used a remote event and did all the reparenting and stuff there, but when reparenting in the server script, it says attempt to index string with 'Parent'. Both parent and billboard arguments i set in the tuple are the instances. Here’s what I’ve got on the local script that I changed:

                        local Adornee = part.Parent.Head
                        local AlwaysOnTop = true
						local ZIndex = 1
						local Text = tostring(config.Headshot.Value)
						game.ReplicatedStorage.GunGUI:FireServer(part.Parent.Head, Adornee, AlwaysOnTop, ZIndex, Text, billboard, label)

and the server script (which I put in server script service):

game.ReplicatedStorage.GunGUI.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(parent, adornee, alwaysontop, zindex, text, billboard, label)
	billboard.Parent = parent --This is where I get the error
	billboard.Adornee = adornee
	billboard.AlwaysOnTop = alwaysontop
	label.ZIndex = zindex
	label.Text = text
end)

EDIT: After a little searching I found that the billboard GUI instance in the tuple mysteriously was converted into a string.

13

Alright now I have another problem:
The billboard instance becomes a string
I tried giving the path to the billboard instance but it still returns a string.
EDIT: Everything important has gone wrong. The text turns to 1 when it should be the headshot damage value, and the adornee is the model itself and not the head.
EDIT 2: I checked the types of everything I input in the tuple and everything is messed up

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I fixed it, it was because of the client server model that it couldn’t be accessed properly.