getting the right PlayerToHideFrom

[crisp skiff]

i'm working on a multiplayer game with doom-style characters, and so far i've managed to attach a BillboardGUI to the player. the problem is that since i want to make it in first-person, the player's own sprite will end up blocking their vision. i figured that i could use the PlayerToHideFrom parameter for this, but i'm not sure how to match the BillboardGUI to the player it's welded to.

[dapper birch]

If it's on a part, make it invisible

[dapper birch]

And if you're able to weld it to that player, you should have a way to put the player in that property, no?

[crisp skiff]

the problem isn't that the player is visible, but that the BillboardGUI is visible to the player it's welded to

[dapper birch]

I've never mentioned anything about the players visibility

[crisp skiff]

oh sorry

i read it wrong

[crisp skiff]

that's what im thinking, i'm just new to studio and don't know how to go about it

[dapper birch]

Send the code

[dapper birch]

You didn't make this did you

[crisp skiff]

i followed a tutorial, yeah

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[crisp skiff]

as i said, new to studio

[dapper birch]

ok give me a sec

Are you welding a part to the player?

[crisp skiff]

i used this to weld a part to the player to use as a new collision box, and i figured out that i could attach the billboard to the player using that part

[dapper birch]

billboard ui or a surfaceui?

also make the weld part invisible

[crisp skiff]

billboard ui, and the part is already invisible

[dapper birch]

PlayerToHideFrom needs a player as a value

[crisp skiff]

yeah

i just gotta get the player

while making it work for all players individually

[dapper birch]

So on character added, you can just put BillboardUi.PlayerToHideFrom = PS:GetPlayerFromCharacter(character)

[crisp skiff]

ill try that rq

having some trouble getting it to work, would you mind going into one of the vcs so i can stream it?

[crisp skiff]

scratch that, i don't have stream permissions

[tawny thicket]

You can probably just make that billboard gui your character

try replacing the starter character with it

[crisp skiff]

ill try that

[tawny thicket]

put a humanoid in it and turn off requires neck and head

[crisp skiff]

i've created a copy of the game to test this out

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[crisp skiff]

geniunley don't know what im doing, but now the player spawns in normally without anything attached as if it were any other roblox game

[tawny thicket]

in StaterPlayer create a Model and name it "StarterCharacter" that has your billboard gui part in it, and a humanoid in there as well.

you might want to rename it to HumanoidRootPart and set the root property of your humanoid

[crisp skiff]

this is what was happening before, but i'll try that now

[tawny thicket]

it should completely override your character creation

[crisp skiff]

is this what you meant?

[tawny thicket]

uh

yeah where is your part tho

humanoid should be named Humanoid

you should have a part to put ur billboard in

[crisp skiff]

let me rearrange things rq

is this better?

[tawny thicket]

dont make part a child of the humanoid

and rename it to HumanoidRootPart

but ye

getting better

[crisp skiff]

it works now, but the original problem remains unsolved and now the cylinder used as the collision box is sideways

[tawny thicket]

no worries

it'll be easier now

in your script in the CharacterAdded one

you're gonna want to do character:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("BillboardGui")

also the cylinder you're using for collision you can make the Part inside the startercharacter

[crisp skiff]

the cylinder is currently under Humanoid and labelled as 'part'

[crisp skiff]

i'll need a little further explanation to find this

[tawny thicket]

this code here

[crisp skiff]

ok

[tawny thicket]

line 15 that's your characteradded funciton

[crisp skiff]

i've done that now

it's right under line 19

[tawny thicket]

local function characterAdded(character, player)
  local billboard = character:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("BillboardGui", true)
  billboard.HideFromPlayer = player
end

local function playerAdded(player)
  player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(character)
    characterAdded(character, player)
  end)
  if player.Character then
    characterAdded(player.Character, player)
  end
end

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(playerAdded)
for _,v in Players:GetPlayers() do
  playerAdded(v)
end

[crisp skiff]

should i put that in a new script or the existing one?

[tawny thicket]

existing one

[crisp skiff]

nothing seems to have changed

[tawny thicket]

PlayerToHideFrom

my bad

I got the property wrong

just change that and ur good

[crisp skiff]

ok

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[crisp skiff]

on this line, yeah?

[tawny thicket]

ye

[crisp skiff]

nothing's changed, and the PlayerToHideFrom is left blank

[tawny thicket]

looks like you never defined Players?

did u just add this entirely

[crisp skiff]

yes, i did

[tawny thicket]

add local Players = game:GetService("Players") to the very top of the script

[crisp skiff]

ah ok

sorry, i'm a beginner

that worked! thank you so much!!

[tawny thicket]

try to understand why i'm asking you to do that

notice how Players is underlined

[crisp skiff]

yeah

it was already defined in an earlier line but it was names PS instead of Players

[tawny thicket]

that means there's a problem with it, if u mouse over it'll give you more info

it probably would say that Players is undefined in the current scope

which means u need to define it

ah gotcha

[crisp skiff]

what i did is just replace the two instances of Players with PS and it worked properly

[tawny thicket]

sure