Help finding distance from HumanoidRootPart to a part and printing on TextLabel

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#1

Hello!

I have tried multiple solutions to this problem. The problem is that when I try this code:

local part1 = playerservice.LocalPlayer.Character.HumanoidRootPart

local part2 = game.Workspace.Part
local txt = script.Parent.Parent.DistanceGui.txtDistance

local distance = (part1.Position - part2.Position).Magnitude
while wait() do
	txt.Text = distance
end

it does not work. The text remains as “Label”.

Here’s the organisation:

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#2

Put local distance = (part1.Position - part2.Position).Magnitude inside of the while wait() loop

#3

It works for a regular part, but apparently I cannot find the HumanoidRootPart, as using RootPart the script does not work but using a part to part distance it does.

#4 
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local Player = Players.LocalPlayer
local Character = Player.Character or Player.CharacterAdded:Wait()

local part1 = Character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")
local part2 = game.Workspace:FindFirstChild("Part")
local txt = script.Parent.Parent.DistanceGui.txtDistance


local Humanoid = Character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
	Humanoid:GetPropertyChangedSignal("MoveDirection"):Connect(function()
	if Humanoid.MoveDirection.Magnitude <= 0 then return end
    local distance = (part1.Position - part2.Position).Magnitude
	txt.Text = distance
end)

Maybe this would work
For me it does.

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#5

Might be worth changing this line.

if Humanoid.MoveDirection == Vector3.new() then return end

For this line, since constructing a Vector3 is a somewhat expensive operation (compared to the following).

if Humanoid.MoveDirection.Magnitude <= 0 then return end
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#8

It works, thanks! One more thing, I changed it to kilometres, but is there a way to round it to the tenths place?

Code:

local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local Player = Players.LocalPlayer
local Character = Player.Character or Player.CharacterAdded:Wait()

local part1 = Character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")
local part2 = game.Workspace:FindFirstChild("Part")
local txt = script.Parent.Parent.DistanceGui.txtDistance


local Humanoid = Character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
Humanoid:GetPropertyChangedSignal("MoveDirection"):Connect(function()
	if Humanoid.MoveDirection.Magnitude <= 0 then return end
	local distance = (part1.Position - part2.Position).Magnitude
	txt.Text = (distance/20000).."km"
end)
#9

The this:

Replace:

With:

txt.Text = string.format(tostring(distance/20000), "%.2f").."km"
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