How do you get the position of a camera and display it onto text?

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#1

I’ve tried looking it up and there have been almost no results, I’m trying to get the cameras position, and then display it onto a text label in a GUI, I’ve looked through a few posts and none of them worked, any help would be appreciated.

#2

You can use:

local cameraPos = workspace.CurrentCamera.CFrame.Position

If you want the whole CFrame, stop with just the CFrame, if you want position or rotation, just add “.Position” or “.Orientation” onto the end.

#3

So it would be like this?

local cameraPos = workspace.CurrentCamera.CFrame.Position

while true do
	wait()
	script.Parent.Text = "POSITION: (" ..cameraPos ")"

end

If it is, then it gives me the error “attempt to call a Vector3 value”

#4

The returned position is a Vector3 value, you have to break it up into pieces, like this:

script.Parent.Text = "POSITION: (" ..tostring(cameraPos.X)..","..tostring(cameraPos.Y)..","..tostring(cameraPos.Z)..")"
#5

Didn’t give me an error, but it didn’t show anything in the text label. Am I doing something wrong here?

#6 
local cameraPos = workspace.CurrentCamera

while task.wait() do
script.Parent.Text = POSITION: (" ..cameraPos.CFrame ")"
end

this might work, sorry if it doesnt, i was typing with my phone

#7

The POSITION: isn’t a variable, it’s supposed to be POSITION: camera position. )

#8

oh, i didn’t read the script correctly

script.Parent.Text = "Position: (" ..cameraPos.CFrame ")"
#9

The cameraPos variable is already a CFrame of the Camera. But it still doesn’t work.

#10

Pr0pelled’s code works for me

local cameraPos = workspace.CurrentCamera.CFrame

while task.wait() do
	script.Parent.Text = "POSITION: (" ..tostring(cameraPos.X)..","..tostring(cameraPos.Y)..","..tostring(cameraPos.Z)..")"
end
#11

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For some reason, it doesn’t for me. Unless I’m supposed to put it in something other than a local script, which I don’t think that’d make much sense.
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#12

maybe try this?

local camera= workspace.CurrentCamera

while task.wait() do
script.Parent.Text = "Position: (" ..tostring(camera.CFrame.Position) ")"
end

i thought the issue might be that because you were doing workspace.CurrentCamera.CFrame it wasn’t being updated every second

#13

Nope. Doesn’t even update the text this time.

#14

try running this

local camera= workspace.CurrentCamera

while true do
wait()
print(camera.CFrame.Position)
end

i gotta go now but lmk what it prints

#15

It’s printing the camera position, but for some reason it just doesn’t appear on the text box.

#16

CFrame is short for “Coordinate frame”, which would return the Position & Orientation. If you’d like to incorporate it into a string, try this:

local Position = workspace.CurrentCamera.CFrame.Position

while true do
    task.wait()
    script.Parent.Text = "POSITION: ("..string.format("%.14g", Position)..")"
end
#17

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Same thing, still doesn’t update the text.

#18 
script.Parent.Text = "Position: ("..tostring(camera.CFrame.Position)..")"

just realized the format was wrong, this should work. I really have to go now though.

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#19

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This worked, but is there any way to make it… simpler? or less bulky? Like, as in a vector3 value.

#20 
local Position = workspace.CurrentCamera.CFrame.Position

while true do
    task.wait()
    script.Parent.Text = tostring("POSITION: ("..tonumber(string.format("%.14g", math.floor(Position)))..")")
end