Position is not a valid member of Model

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#1

Hello there,

I am having trouble getting my animated NPCs to work. Basically what they do is, you walk up to the shop owner, and a textlabel appears, you press “F” and a shop pops up. But for some reason they aren’t working anymore. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Error in the Console

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Code 
local position1 = workspace.NPCs.Owner.Sven.Torso
repeat wait() until game.Players.LocalPlayer.Character
while true do
    local position2 = game.Players.LocalPlayer.Character.Position
    local distance = (position1 - position2).magnitude
    if distance < 4 then
        script.Parent.Parent.PlayerGui.UserInterface.Thing.Visible=true
    else
        script.Parent.Parent.PlayerGui.UserInterface.Thing.Visible=false
    end
    wait(.1)
end
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#2

I believe position1 is referring to the Torso itself, and not it’s position.

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#3

The error is coming from position2, on line 4.

#4

Models have no position. Use Character.HumanoidRootPart.Position or similar, or use Character.PrimaryPart.CFrame. The primary part is not guarenteed for to be set for any model though (characters it should be). I usually index the root part by name.

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#5

I tried your solution and got another error

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Did I need to do something else as well?

#6

Did the line change at all, because by that error you tried.

game.Character -- this doesn't exist
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#7

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“Character” is the Model. It’s not a part with a position property.
You will also want to make sure the character exists each loop otherwise it will break when players die/reset.

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#8

Thank you @Darkmist101 and @Dev_Ryan. This fixed my issue.