Why does this text changing script for a SurfaceGui not work?

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#1

I’m trying to make a script so that when a player holds out a tool, it changes the text on the tool to the username of the person holding it, but I am getting an error. I have attempted to do this within a local script inside StarterPlayerScripts;

game.Players.LocalPlayer.Backpack:WaitForChild("AccountInfo")
game.Players.LocalPlayer.Backpack.AccountInfo.Handle.SurfaceGui.UsernamePerson.Text = game.Players.LocalPlayer.Name

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But then, it says that “Backpack is not a valid member of player” in the output. How do I fix this?

#2

add a
game.Players.LocalPlayer:WaitForChild("Backpack")

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#3

Now it gives

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and it still doesn’t show the person’s username on the surface gui?

#4

If the tool is equipped, it moves over to the player’s character model, so you can do something like:
game.Players.LocalPlayer.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local tool = game.Players.LocalPlayer.Backpack:WaitForChild("AccountInfo") or game.Players.LocalPlayer.Character:WaitForChild("AccountInfo")
tool.Handle.SurfaceGui.UsernamePerson.Text = game.Players.LocalPlayer.Name

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#5

It works now, thanks so much!

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#6

No problem, hope you have a fun time developing

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