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How would get a players' location from a global script?
I am trying to get the players' location using a global script, this is what I have written:
local location = Vector3.new(0,0.5,0) local playerName = script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.Name local playerLocation = game.Workspace.playerName.UpperTorso.Position print(playerLocation)
I don't know why but it keeps saying that playerName is an invalid member of Workspace. Should I put a wait so that ROBLOX has time to load the character? What do I do? Thank you/
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You can use the PlayerAdded event and then wait for the player's character like so:
game:GetService("Players").PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
local character = player.CharacterAdded:wait()
local position = character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart").Position
end)
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Thanks for posting this! I was able to get this to work by replacing the '.' with ':' after 'game.' Just adding a little context; the reason you have to use the 'Players' service and wait for an event is because your player is not initially in the game, so you have to wait for the event to fire before getting your position. funitude 5 — 6y
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Put the Global Script in Workspace. Then try this code:
game.Player.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Plr) -- Player is added
Plr.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(Char) -- Players' character added
local location = Char:WaitForChild("UpperTorso").Position -- wait for uppertorso to appear then get the position
end)
end)
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Change the code to
local location = Vector3.new(0,0.5,0) repeat wait() until script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.Character local playerName = script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.Name repeat wait() until game.Workspace.playerName.UpperTorso local playerLocation = game.Workspace.playerName.UpperTorso.Position print(playerLocation)
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playername wasn't valid again dreameryoutubeREAL 3 — 7y