property change help

[neon ridge]

    if BoolValue.Value == true then
        game.Lighting.TimeOfDay = 12
        music.SoundId = Music
        music:Play()
        gui.Visible = true
        GuiClone.TextLabel.Visible = true
    end
    
    print("work!")

    if BoolValue.Value == false then
        game.Lighting.TimeOfDay = 6.5 
        music.SoundId = ambience.SoundId
        music:Play()
        gui.Visible = false
        GuiClone.TextLabel.Visible = false
    end
    
    music:Play()
end

local function onChanged2(plr)
    local CC = Character.HumanoidRootPart.Position
    GuiClone.TextLabel.Text = math.round(CC.X)..", ".. math.round(CC.Y)..", ".. math.round(CC.Z)
end

onChanged()
onChanged2()
BoolValue.Changed:Connect(onChanged)
Character.HumanoidRootPart:GetPropertyChangedSignal("Position"):Connect(onChanged2)```

what did i do wrong?

the property change for position isn't working

[final eagle]

I'm not the best scripter, so I'll try my best. What do you want to achieve with this?

I get the changing time of day and playing music, but what do you need humanoid position for?

[supple island]

what's the goal here + what's outputting + what's not working

[neon ridge]

i just want the change in the position property to fire for the second local function but it seems i did something wrong

[neon ridge]

no real error in output

[supple island]

any output at all?

[final eagle]

I've never had a good time with instance.Changed

Changed is the value right? Or the children

[neon ridge]

well the other prints and other parts of the script work as normal but just that bit

[supple island]

instance.Changed is when one of the properties change i think

[final eagle]

Yeah that's your problem

Your using changed on the boolvalue

Or wait

Can you even use it on the value

Nevermind ignore that

[supple island]

wait a second, what even IS BoolValue?

oh

this is a fraction of the script

[final eagle]

Are you changing the value?

[supple island]

its probably the BoolValue instance

[final eagle]

Or is the error the himanoidrootpatt itself?

[supple island]

try this: put print("this") at the start of the first function and print("that") at the start of the second function

this can help you pinpoint the issue

[final eagle]

Why are you using getpropertychange signa

?

Right now you are checking if the value is changed, if that is true you then check if the humanoidrootpart.position has changed

[supple island]

also you dont need to do
if bool == true then
code
end
if bool == false then
code
end

you can instead do

if bool == true then

else

end

[final eagle]

Why not do humanoidrootpart.cframe or position instead

[supple island]

hes probably using that to check whenever a player moves

[final eagle]

I think it's rather a sense of security than insufficient knowledge but yeah good tip

[supple island]

wont fix the issue but its nice

[supple island]

@neon ridge try this

[final eagle]

You aren't checking position

That is just a string

That's the problem

Getpropertysignalchanged uses strings and is overall a different solution to instance.changed

Also

In both of your local functions you have parameters

Both of those parameters aren't fulfilled

You execute them without specifying the player

But that doesn't really matter since you don't use it

[neon ridge]

don't focus on the bool man its not about the bool its about the position value

[final eagle]

Yeah no I noticed that

Are you checking for the position or if it has changed?

[neon ridge]

if the position changed

also the print only fires once

[final eagle]

Are you checking if it has changed during the time the bool hasn't changed? Or only if the bool has changed

Because the bool.changed is instant it doesn't wait for the humanoidrootpart

[neon ridge]

in the script its supposed to fire each time the position changes

[neon ridge]

the last line

[final eagle]

Your not changing the value with that

Sorry i misread it as a function but your not changing the book in the second function

Bool

Autocorrect

[neon ridge]

don't focus on the bool value that doesn't matter everything there works it fires when the bool changes does what its supposed to its the humanoid root part position change that isn't working right

[final eagle]

Alright my bad

Property changed signal uses strings though

Yeah no

Propertychanged doesn't read positions of psychics

Or*

You have to use a different event or function

[neon ridge]

then how do i check for a changed position

[final eagle]

You could use render stepped or heartbeat and set the old position as variable, if the position doesn't match in the loop then it's detected

RunService.Stepped:Connect(function()
    if part.Position ~= oldPosition then
        print("Position changed!")
        oldPosition = part.Position
    end
end)   ```

This for example

[neon ridge]

i fixed it

RunService.RenderStepped:Connect(onChanged2)

i just used this

[final eagle]

Alright

Good luck with your game

[supple island]

or you could do HumanoidRootPart.Changed to use up less recources

[dim spade]

Check your reference to the gui, and you're trying to concatenate numbers with strings

[neon ridge]

not it, as when i made it runservice everything was as i wanted it was just an issue with finding the change in the hrp position must've set something up wrong

[dim spade]

GetPropertyChangedSignal can't detect changes due to physics, hence the player's CFrame.Position changing due to their movement won't fire

https://create.roblox.com/docs/reference/engine/classes/Object#GetPropertyChangedSignal

runservice was a good sub

[supple island]

ah

[neon ridge]

so i was supposed to do cframe.position instead of just position?

[dim spade]

No, it was undoable with getpropertychangedsignal because of its limitations

Cframe.Position is the same as Position

Runservice was the next best thing

[neon ridge]

oh okay i understand, thank you

[neon ridge]

but could i do it for gui because there aren't any physics in gui's?

[dim spade]

Looks like you can use it to detect a change in a non-physics-based property, so you can use it to detect a property of a gui sure

But you can’t attach an event to a player’s position to fire code when they move because the position changing is physics based

[neon ridge]

alright alright cause i wanted to do something with a gui next

playing around is my favorite way to learn scripting

[neon ridge]

    local DogPos = Vector2.new(Dog.position.X, Dog.position.Y)
    local ShadowPos = Shadow.Position
    local SunPos = Vector2.new(Sun.position.X, Sun.position.Y)
    local Direction = DogPos - SunPos
    local Str = 2
    
    local NeoPos = DogPos + Direction * Str
    print(DogPos, ShadowPos, SunPos, Direction, Str, NeoPos)
    ShadowPos = UDim2.new(NeoPos.x, 0, NeoPos.y, 0)
    
end``` im sorry to bother again but could you tell me why this isn't working?
all the positions stay the exact same

[dim spade]

if sun and shadow are UI objects, they use UDim2 not Vector2 for size and position

https://create.roblox.com/docs/reference/engine/datatypes/UDim2

^udim2 documentation

[neon ridge]

    local ShadowPos = Shadow.absolutePosition
    local Str = 2


    local DogPos = Vector2.new(Dog.Position.X.Offset, Dog.Position.Y.Offset)
    local SunPos = Vector2.new(Sun.Position.X.Offset, Sun.Position.Y.Offset)

    local Direction = (DogPos - SunPos)
    local Direction2 = Vector2.new(Direction.X, Direction.Y)

    local NeoPos = DogPos + Direction2 * Str
    print(NeoPos, DogPos)
    Shadow.Position = UDim2.fromOffset(NeoPos.X, NeoPos.Y)

end``` i can't get it to work

i mean it works but the shadow isn't behind the dog

its completly off

instead of it slightly being behind the dog its like way off

the dog's position isn't the dogs position for some reason trying to make the dogs position the dogs position i got from the same dog makes it different

[dim spade]

what are you trying to accomplish

[neon ridge]

i was trying to do a silly little gui menu where you drag a little sun from left to right to get a value to see how loud or quite jumpscares are but it just all went wrong

guis are so confusing

[dim spade]

So it's a volume slider for jumpscares?

where do the dog and shadow come in

is the dog below the sun and you want the dog to be between the shadow and the sun

[neon ridge]

the sun has a ui drag detector, basically i wanted to make it a bit weird by it being 1 on the sides making the dog have a shadow so left or right but when its right above it would be 0, but i can't even get the visual to work its completly off

i just don't understand it, with script, without script

[dim spade]

can you move the UI a bit to show me where the shadow, dog, and sun should be when the slider is at max vs min

just manually

[neon ridge]

like this, min, max, max

and the shadow would be facing the opposite direction of the shadow

[dim spade]

that's pretty tricky, what I would try is:
if the sun is all the way to the left, its x offset is 0, and it's 1 all the way to the right. If it's not, set it up that way.

Put the shadow in a frame such that if it's all the way to the right, its x offset = 1, and if it's all the way to the left, its x offset = 0.

set the shadow's x offset to -(sun's x offset), this way if the sun is all the way to the right of its frame the shadow will be all the way to the left of its frame, and vice versa.

my bad, set the shadow's x offset to (1 - sun's x offset), not -(sun's x offset)

that way if the sun's x offset is 1 the shadow's is 0, and vice versa

[neon ridge]

thats not the problem right now, something is making the dogs position 0 instead of the position it actually is and ive got no idea why

[dim spade]

so at runtime your dog is changing positions?

ctrl + shift + f and search anything referencing dog.Position

[neon ridge]

it was whatever i was doing that was making it do that cause now i changed it but it doesn't move at all

i think im very close to just giving up man

[dim spade]

now this is bothering me too

is this what u were going for

[neon ridge]

you did before me

how the hell

    local DogPos = Dog.AbsolutePosition
    local SunPos = Sun.AbsolutePosition
    
    print(DogPos)

    local Direction = DogPos - SunPos

    local Str = 2 
    local NeoPos = DogPos + Direction * Str
    
    Shadow.Position = UDim2.fromOffset(NeoPos.X, NeoPos.Y)
end




Sun.Changed:Connect(MegaMathMunch)```
i got the dog itself to sit still but not its shadow

[dim spade]

here ya go

thats the ui object, be warned the code is not very neat

free commission

[neon ridge]

yours is an rbxm my computer lists roblox files as rbxl's

i can't open it

[dim spade]

in your game go to file>import roblox file

rbxl's are full games

[neon ridge]

i got it

thank you