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I'm trying to make a TextLabel that says how high I am, but it doesn't show, how I fix this?

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So I'm making a game where you need to go as high as you can and for some reason the text label (which says how high is my HumanoidRootPart) and it just errors this:

Players.iMakeGames007.PlayerGui.ForHeight.HeightMeterz.LocalScript:5: attempt to index nil with 'Position'

while true do
	local Player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
	local Character = game:GetService("Workspace")[Player.Name]
	local hrp = Character:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart")
	script.Parent.Text = "? "..hrp.Position.Vector3.yAxis
end

How can I fix this?

Anonymous

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First, using while true do will simply crash your game. Second, that's, as far as I know, not how a Vector3 works. Even if you were trying to get yAxis it should've been hrp.Position.yAxis. You should simply do hrp.Position.Y.

The error you have provided seems to say that HumanoidRootPart does not exist in the Player's character. I recommend trying to use :WaitForChild and changing hrp.Position.Vector3.yAxis to either hrp.Position.Y or hrp.CFrame.Y.

For example:

while task.wait(0.1) do
	local Player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
	local Character = Player.Character
	local hrp = Character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart", 30) -- Adding 30 as an argument tells the method to only wait for 30 seconds, this prevents infinite-yielding.
	script.Parent.Text = "? " .. hrp.Position.Y
end
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Does it also work for a leaderstats script?

Anonymous#
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If you're talking about WaitForChild, then yes.

Anonymous#
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using the while true do loop without wait() will crash

Anonymous#
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but if you use the while true do loop USING wait() won't crash

Anonymous#
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I haven't mentioned that because I consider using while true do with wait as while wait() do instead.

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