Changed Event not detecting players' position

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Okay so I am using the Changed/GetPropertyChangedSignal Events to detect when a player moves from their position, but the event doesn’t work in game unless I manually change it in properties :confused: any reason why that is?

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can you share the code you have used ?

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Sure!

        ChangedSignal = RootPart:GetPropertyChangedSignal('Position'):Connect(function()
			warn(RootPart.Position)
		end)
		
		local Attachment0	= Instance.new('Attachment', RootPart)
		local AlignPosition	= Instance.new('AlignPosition')
			AlignPosition.Mode = Enum.PositionAlignmentMode.OneAttachment
			AlignPosition.Attachment0 = Attachment0
			AlignPosition.Position = GoalPosition
			AlignPosition.MaxForce = math.huge
			AlignPosition.MaxVelocity = 50
			AlignPosition.Responsiveness = 200
			AlignPosition.Parent = Attachment0
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or you can just use Humanoid.Running event

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That works until I jump, then… it doesn’t

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what about Humanoid.ChangeState ?

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Only works when I’m jumping or not running

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so you want the function to run when player moves right ?

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Changes position to be exact but yea

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then you can just do this

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(v1)
v1.Character.Humanoid.ChangeState:Connect(function()
-- function body here
end)
end)
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yeah but

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I guess it should work even with player runs…

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or you can use a while loop and check if the MoveDirection is >0

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Depending on what you need, you should just use an event from RunService. The player’s position is always changing, even when standing still. That’s the nature of the physics engine.

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Then why is the changed event not firing?

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The changed event isn’t fired by the physics engine, partly because it would be fired every frame.
Just use RunService.Heartbeat:Connect(Blah) for this, it will run at the same time that Changed would have run.

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