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Player Position displayed in GUI doesn't update?

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I have this script inside StarterGui, attached to a TextLabel. The script displays my character's position once, at the beggining, but then stops updating, even though other functions inside it's while loop keep running.

local textLabel = script.Parent
local text = textLabel.Text

local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local player = Players.LocalPlayer
local character = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:wait() -- in case the character model has already been created
local playerCoords

if character ~= nil then
	playerCoords  = character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart").Position
end


while true do
	local intCoords = Vector3.new(math.floor(playerCoords.X + 0.5), math.floor(playerCoords.Y + 0.5), math.floor(playerCoords.Z + 0.5))
	textLabel.Text =  tostring(intCoords)
	print(intCoords)
	wait()
end

Why does it only update once at the beginning? Even though it is still running and keeps printing the same intCoords value?

Anonymous

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use this: 

while true do
wait() -- put whatever wait you want
script.Parent.Text = game.Players.Character:WaitForChild("Torso").Position -- change this to LowerTorso if r15
--rest of code
end

hope it helps c:

A simple Explanation:

The player's Torso or LowerTorso is the player model's PrimaryPart, since all models use a PrimaryPart to move, or detect a model's position, Also, you do not continuously change the text with while true do, so it will only show the coordinates once.
for any more info, use this DevForum:

https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/property/Model/PrimaryPart

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wait it worked?

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I will explain

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Sorry, I made a typo and had to delete the comment. Yes, I had to change "Players.Character" to "Players.LocalPlayer.Character" but yes, it worked. I'm guessing I wasn't creating a reference to the variable but only copying the value at the time I read it? Weird

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I'm not sure i think you were getting HumanoidRootPart not Torso

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Yeah, I'm using R16 so I also changed that bit. The whole line of code I used was: "script.Parent.Text = tostring(game.Players.LocalPlayer.Character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart").Position)". Thanks for the edit. But you know why it doesn't update inside the while loop?

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you used tostring Im pretty sure you do: script.Parent.Text = game.Players.Localplayer.Character:WaitForChild("Torso").Position

Anonymous#
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If I don't use tostring() I get the following error: " ... bad argument #3 (string expected, got Vector3)". So you do need to use it

Anonymous#
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is it localscript?

Anonymous#
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also thanks for the reputation!

Anonymous#
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Yeah, it's a LocalScript. I've posted a full answer now. No worries. Please upvote my question and/or answer if you find them useful

Anonymous#
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yeah it was a pretty good question

Anonymous#

Thanks @VortexGamingPlayerYT for the directions.

Here's the full script for anyone wanting to do the same thing. Put this code in a LocalScript inside a TextLabel in StarterGui:

local textLabel = script.Parent
local text = textLabel.Text

local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local player = Players.LocalPlayer
local character = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:wait() -- in case the character model has already been created
local playerCoords

if character ~= nil then
	playerCoords  = character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart").Position
	print("Got root")
end


while true do
	-- access the position variable every frame
	local intCoords = game.Players.LocalPlayer.Character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart").Position
	-- round down each axis with math.floor() to get only integers
	intCoords = Vector3.new(math.floor(intCoords.X), math.floor(intCoords.Y), math.floor(intCoords.Z))
	-- assign it to the text label with tostring() so you don't pass a Vector3
	textLabel.Text = tostring(intCoords)
	wait()
end
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