Positioning a 2D UI to a part?

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#1

I know there’s such thing as a billboard ui so I can properly add a textlabel into a part and it pops up. But what if I wanted to make a ui on my screen, that positions the text to a part’s position?

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#2

Use Camera:WorldToScreenPoint (or, if the ancestor ScreenGui’s IgnoreGuiInset is enabled, Camera:WorldToViewportPoint. Every render step, get the screen point from the world position of the part and set the text label’s position to that point.

local runService = game:GetService("RunService")
local camera = workspace.CurrentCamera
local textLabel = path.to.text.label
local part = path.to.part

runService:BindToRenderStep("FollowWorldPosition", Enum.RenderPriority.Last.Value, function(deltaTime)
    local screenPoint, isInBounds = camera:WorldToScreenPoint(part.Position)
    if not isInBounds then
        textLabel.Visible = false
        return
    end
    textLabel.Visible = true
    textLabel.Position = UDim2.new(0, screenPoint.X, 0, screenPoint.Y)
end)
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#3

thanks buddy i appreciate your help!