How to put the Player's Position in a Script

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  1. What do you want to achieve? Keep it simple and clear!
  • I want to put the player’s position in a script (server script), because a portion of my script requires the player’s position (the portion in question handles the Damage Falloff mechanic of my shooter game)
  1. What is the issue? Include screenshots / videos if possible!
  • It looks like game.Players in Scripts don’t have a Character in it, which is crucial for declaring the player’s position
  1. What solutions have you tried so far? Did you look for solutions on the Developer Hub?
  • I already searched in the internet beforehand, but nothing appears that helps me
local Pos = P.Character.PrimaryPart.Position
			local hrpP = Hit.Parent:FindFirstChildOfClass("HumanoidRootPart").Position or Hit.Parent.Parent:FindFirstChildOfClass("Humanoid").Position
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Hi there! I think what your asking is “How do I change the position of a player in a server script?”
Well here’s the cool thing…
You don’t need to!
Local scripts will translate a players position on the server AND client, and can be done by doing

local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local character = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local hrp = character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")

local postion = yourPosition.Position

wait(3)

hrp.Position = position

and just in case you still want to so it on a server script:

local players = game.Players

players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
    local character = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
    local hrp = character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")
    local position = yourPart.Position
    
    wait(3)

    hrp.Position = position
end)

These are just simple player teleport scripts, but this is just how you reference a player’s position. You can also do this by using remote events to get the local player position, but this is very exploitable, so these methods might be better, unless you are trying to get the player’s position at a certain time.

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local players = game:GetService("Players")

local function onPlayerAdded(player)
    local function onCharacterAdded(character)
        local humanoidRootPart = character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")        
        task.wait(10)
        print(humanoidRootPart.Position) --humanoid root part's position after 10 seconds
    end
    
    player.CharacterAdded:Connect(onCharacterAdded)
end

players.PlayerAdded:Connect(onPlayerAdded)
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I don’t really look for a teleport script, I just want to know how far a player is from the target

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For that you can just use .Magnitude on a position to get the distance of a player between a part something like (RootPosition - PartPosition).Magnitude and it’ll return the distance between the player and part.