I want to have my gui to say the name of the object and how much the player has in a textlabel. The amount is in the leaderstat but I also want to show it in the text label. when i do it, it says i cant have a comma. for example moneycounter.text = ("Money =", Moneyleaderstat.value)
#adding leaderstat to gui
fickle briar
fickle briar
doesnt seem to work. it shows the leaderstat working but not the text
glacial wadi
moneycounter.text = ("Money = ".. Moneyleaderstat.value)
text to Text and value to Value
fickle briar
i did that and it didnt change anything
ebon moss
Text and value starting with captial letters
moneycounter.Text = ("Money = ".. Moneyleaderstat.Value)
ebon moss
What exactly doesnt work, any errors or is it the behaviour?
fickle briar
well the gui that should tell you how much wood you have isnt changing.
wooden crypt
in Lua u cant join strings and numbers with commas like in some other languages, u need to concatenate them with .. and convert non-strings with tostring
fickle briar
like what i want it to do is match up with the leaderstat
ebon moss
This is a local script right?
fickle briar
its a normal script. should it be a local?
wooden crypt
Udim2 always needs 4 numbers
fickle briar
it worked with 2 for me tho
ebon moss
its a normal script. should it be a local?
I never tried guis with server scripts i usually do it with locals so idk
fickle briar
so just copy and paste everything into the local script?
ebon moss
Its worth a try
wooden crypt
also string <> number, u cant do that u must concatenate
fickle briar
Its worth a try
so there is another problem that happens when i do that. It removes the leaderstat. so if i were to do the local script i would just need the function and some local things. but, i would need to reference the leaderstat but i cant because its in a different script.
ebon moss
Its pretty late in my timezone, sorry if it doesnt help
wooden crypt
label.Text = ("Wood =", wood.Value) should be like this label.Text = "Wood = " .. wood.Value
also GUI parenting, in a localscript u should parent ur screengui to the playergui, not startergui
also the player detection, inside touched, u get a hit part so u check hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then GetPlayerFromCharacter to make sure it was you who touched it.
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ebon moss
so there is another problem that happens when i do that. It removes the leaderst...
I dont really know how to fix it rn im pretty tired and wouldve chosen a completely different approach
fickle briar
also GUI parenting, in a localscript u should parent ur screengui to the playerg...
this isnt in a local script though. Is that partly why it isnt working?
ebon moss
Meanwhile you can also try to use chat gpt and Claude, for these small problems they do a good job
fickle briar
ok
wooden crypt
startergui is just a template, anything u put in startergui on the server will be cloned into each player's playergui when they join, once the game is running, the client only ever sees and updates their own playergui, they dont have a live reference to startergui anymore
in short, startergui -> initial template on the server -> gets copied into playergui on the client -> u should script aginst playergui