Camera Position System

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I’m making a camera system that positions the camera above an specific “cell” of the map, each cell has an ID assigned to it, which consists of a letter and a number (A1, B4, D12, etc…) said IDs are those parts’ names. I want players to be able to control the camera with WASD. W and S will change the letter of the ID allowing them to move in the Y axis, while A and D will change the number (x axis), since these two values need to be separated in order to mess with them I ended up with the following code:

local cellY = "A"
local cellX = "1"
local cellID = cellY .. cellX
local cellPos = workspace.cellID

local goal = {}
goal.position = Vector3.new(cellPos.position.x,40,cellPos.position.z)

This is supposed to let me modify both, the letter and number (lines 1 and 2 respectively) and then concadenate them to form the ID (line 3).

The problem with this code is that I can’t just use cellID’s content as a child of workspace (line 4) which basicly causes an error since there is not a part named “cellID” inside workspace and because of that I can’t use the variable cellPos as a point of access to the cell’s x and z position (line 7).

Is there anything I can do to “fix” this code or a better solution for what I’m tryng to do?

Note: This is just the part of the code that has the issue, the rest is basicly TweenService related stuff, if you want to check out that too let me know.

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If I understand this correctly, you code is looking for the part named CellID in workspace. Try the following and also save one unnecessary defined variable:

local cellPos = workspace[cellY .. cellX]

You can also use

local cellPos = workspace:FindFirstChild(cellY .. cellX)

… which looks for child with particular name and returns nil in case it doesn’t find it right away.

Note: workspace.CellID doesn’t work because CellID is a string, not an object. You cannot look for string names directly in workspace, however, you can look for instances that go by a certain name.

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It works perfectly now, thanks for the help!

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