Sound Time Position Help

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#1

Hello All, so today i was looking through old scripts and i saw a time position script. It looked pretty messy so i TRIED to remake it but i ended up with this

local playersStarterPark = game.Players.LocalPlayer.Character
local characterTool = playersStarterPark:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("Tool")

local sound = characterTool.ugh
local label = script.Parent.TIme

characterTool.Equipped:Connect(function()
	label.Text = string.format("%d:%02d", math.floor(sound.TimePosition/60), sound.TimePosition%60)
end)

doesn’t even work lol. I seriously need help on this

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#2

im really sleepy so my brain is so dead rn

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#3

Could we please have more context into what the hell your doing.
As of right now, we don’t even know what your problem is, nonetheless what the table sound is supposed to represent / hold

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#4

You need to react to changes in the sound’s time position.

function changeLabel()
    -- update the label text here
end

sound:GetPropertyChangedSignal("TimePosition"):Connect(changeLabel)
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#5

like i said, i don’t know im being insanely dumb right now. im trying to make when a text label replicates how long the song has been going for. i apologize for you not understanding, hope this clears it

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#6

im pretty sure its gonna make the numbers like

0.989909809890

and not

0
#7

Is that not why you’ve chosen %d?

Put this inside the function body.

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#8

And what is currently wrong with it. Is your rounding not working properly, is it a replication problem…?

#9

just doesn’t function at all. ill see what i can do with the our guys help, brb

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#10

well, at least it functions. it just won’t replicate the song time position
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#11

buster. I’ll see what i can do from here now, ill mark it as a solution since it gave me an easier way to fix. Thanks!

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#12 
local playersStarterPark = game.Players.LocalPlayer.Character
local characterTool = playersStarterPark:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("Tool")

local sound = characterTool.ugh
local label = script.Parent.TIme -- Is that what it's named?

while task.wait(1) do -- Ik, bad practice, sue me.
    label.Text = string.format("%d:%2d", math.floor(sound.TimePosition / 60), sound.TimePosition%60)
end

In theory, this should work! :smile:

You could also do this:

local runService = game:GetService("RunService")

local playersStarterPark = game.Players.LocalPlayer.Character
local characterTool = playersStarterPark:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("Tool")

local sound = characterTool.ugh
local label = script.Parent.TIme -- Is that what it's named?

runService.Heartbeat:Connect(function()
    label.Text = string.format("%d:%2d", math.floor(sound.TimePosition / 60), sound.TimePosition%60)
end)

(I have no freaking idea if Heartbeat is the right one, otherwise, it’s RenderStepped. But I think it is Heartbeat!)

#13

seems like theres an error
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#14

If it says “attempt to index nil”, it means that the thing you indexed (characterTool) is nil.

Try using WaitForChild.

#15

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weird. want me to show you a video of what i want so it can be simpler to fix?

#16

Oh, I see.

You also need to wait for the character.

local character = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local tool = character:WaitForChild("Tool") -- or whatever you've named it
#17

Btw, on the

local tool

part, im trying to detect when the character has a tool not the tool name

Example:
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im trying to detect when they have a tool equipped*

#18

In that case, you can use an event:

character.ChildAdded:Connect(function(tool: Tool)
    if tool:IsA("Tool") then
        -- do stuff
    end
end)
#19

does this

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no error either?

source code


local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local character = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:Wait()

local label = script.Parent.Label

character.ChildAdded:Connect(function(tool: Tool)
	if tool:IsA("Tool") then
		label.Text = string.format("%d:%2d", math.floor(tool.ugh.TimePosition / 60), tool.ugh.TimePosition%60)
	end
end)
#20

Can you open the Explorer and check that the sound time is replicating to the client?

This is the only thing I can think of, since everything else looks okay…