How can I center UI without using UIListLayout?

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Hello, developers!

I am currently programming a nametag script that loops through each that letter and tweens it according to what effect a player has equipped.

Here’s my code thus far:

function PlayerAdded(Player)
	local NametagStyle = "Wave"
	
	local function CharacterAdded(Character)
		local Nametag = script.Nametag:Clone()
		
		local Count = 1
		for Letter in string.gmatch(Player.Name, "(%w)") do
			local TextLabel = Instance.new("TextLabel", Nametag.Letters)
			TextLabel.Size = UDim2.new(.05, 0, .75, 0)
			TextLabel.Position =  UDim2.new(Count*0.05, 0, 0, 0)
			TextLabel.Text = Letter
			TextLabel.BackgroundTransparency = 1
			TextLabel.Font = Enum.Font.GothamBold
			TextLabel.TextColor3 = Color3.new(1, 1, 1)
			TextLabel.TextSize = 25
			Count += 1
		end
		
		Nametag.Parent = Character.PrimaryPart
		
		while Character do
			wait(5)
			NametagFunctions[NametagStyle](GetLabels(Nametag.Letters))
		end
	end
	
	CharacterAdded(Player.Character or Player.CharacterAdded:Wait())
	
	Player.CharacterAdded:Connect(CharacterAdded)
end

Now, this works perfectly fine. However, I am not sure how I can center the textlabels initially? When I press play here, you can see that the TextLabels are aligned to the left (as expected).

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How can I modify code to make the TextLabels align to the center?

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Make anchor point 0.5,0 and make the pos {0.5,0}{whatever pos here}

3

That would group all the letters together. Each letter is it’s own TextLabel.

4

Why do you want each letter as another text label?

5

For this. e.g Looping through the labels to create a wave effect.

6

Go to the UI and edit this property:

7

In the title of this post it says “without using UIListLayout”, and you just linked a property of UIListLayout.

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function PlayerAdded(Player)
	local NametagStyle = "Wave"
	
	local function CharacterAdded(Character)
		local Nametag = script.Nametag:Clone()
		Nametag.Size = UDim2.fromScale(#Player.Name/2.5, 1.5)
		
		local Labels = {}
		
		local Count = 1
		for Letter in string.gmatch(Player.Name, "(%w)") do
			local TextLabel = Instance.new("TextLabel", Nametag.Letters)
			TextLabel.Size = UDim2.new(.05, 0, .75, 0)
			table.insert(Labels, Count, TextLabel)
			TextLabel.AnchorPoint = Vector2.new(.5,0)
			TextLabel.Text = Letter
			TextLabel.Name = Letters[Count]
			TextLabel.BackgroundTransparency = 1
			TextLabel.Font = Enum.Font.GothamBold
			TextLabel.TextColor3 = Color3.new(1, 1, 1)
			TextLabel.TextScaled = true
			Count += 1
		end
		
		Nametag.Parent = Character.PrimaryPart
		
		local function Center()
			for I, Label in pairs(Labels) do
				
				Label.Size = UDim2.fromScale(1/#Labels, 1)
				Label.Position = UDim2.fromScale(I/#Labels - (Label.Size.X.Scale/2), 0)
			end
		end
		
		Center()
		
		while Character do
			wait(5)
			NametagFunctions[NametagStyle](Labels)
		end
	end
	
	CharacterAdded(Player.Character or Player.CharacterAdded:Wait())
	
	Player.CharacterAdded:Connect(CharacterAdded)
end