Cant See Player in ViewPointFrame

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In the itemviewportframe it shows a blank instead of the players character
Its a Child of the itemviewportframe and the code is in a local script:

local thePlayer = game.Players.LocalPlayer --Get the player
thePlayer.Character.Archivable = true --Make sure we can clone the character
newCamera = Instance.new('Camera') --Make a new camera
newCamera.CameraType = Enum.CameraType.Scriptable
script.Parent.CurrentCamera = newCamera --Set the viewport to use that camera
local vector1 = Vector3.new(0, -0.5, 7) --This is how far away the camera is away from the character, I like these settings the most.
local vector2 = Vector3.new(100, 3.142, 23) --Without this variable, we'd be staring at the back of the character's head. So we take 180 degrees and turn it into radians	

local function addcfv3(a, b)
     local x, y, z, m11, m12, m13, m21, m22, m23, m31, m32, m33 = a:components()
     return CFrame.new(x + b.x, y + b.y, z + b.z, m11, m12, m13, m21, m22, m23, m31, m32, m33);
end
local RunService = game:GetService("RunService")
RunService.Heartbeat:Connect(function()
	if thePlayer.Character:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart") then --Check if there's a HumanoidRootPart
		for i, descendant in ipairs(script.Parent:GetDescendants()) do --Get all the parts already in the viewport...
			if descendant.ClassName ~= "LocalScript" then -- ... check if it's not the LocalScript ...
				descendant:Destroy() -- ... And destroy it, so we can put the new stuff in.
			end
		end
--This whole area is pretty neat, in that it gets the average of all the part positions. This reduces jittery motion by a lot
		local targetedVector3 = Vector3.new()
		local totalDivide = 1
		for i, component in ipairs(thePlayer.Character:GetDescendants()) do
			if component:IsA("BasePart") then
				totalDivide = totalDivide + 0.97
				targetedVector3 = targetedVector3 + component.Position
			end
		end
		targetedVector3  = targetedVector3/totalDivide
--Finally, we set the camera to our desired position
		newCamera.CoordinateFrame = addcfv3(
			CFrame.new(
				Vector3.new(),
				thePlayer.Character.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame.LookVector
			),
			targetedVector3
		)
		local me = thePlayer.Character:Clone() --And clone your character into the viewport.
		--me.Sound:Destroy() --(Yeah, there's a sound here, delete it otherwise you get an error)
		me.Parent = script.Parent
	end
end)
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Please include more context in your posts about what you’re trying to achieve, and what isn’t working. It’s hard to tell exactly what’s going on, but I don’t think you’re pointing the camera the right way.

CFrame.new(
				Vector3.new(),
				thePlayer.Character.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame.LookVector
			),

This creates a CFrame at 0,0,0, looking in the same direction as the character is. If I’m reading this correctly, you then offset this CFrame by the average position of all the parts in the character. This means your end result is a CFrame inside the character, which would explain why you don’t see the character.

Also you can just add Vector3’s to a CFrame, you don’t need the addcfv3 function.

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Yea im trying to show a player in the itemviewport. But it shows a blank white square Instead of the Characters Appearance.

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