Offset world-text above player's health bar

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I created a world-text with “event player” as a position :
Create In-World Text(All Players(All Teams), Custom String(“”), Event Player), […], Default Visibility);
The custom text appear at the health bar position and they both move together with the event player, perfect so far.
Now I want to shift my custom text above the health bar so I tried adding a vector like so :
Create In-World Text(All Players(All Teams), Custom String(“”), Event Player + Vector(0, 1.5,0), […], Default Visibility);
But now it doesn’t move with the health bar so I’m confused.

Any tips ? Thanks

EDIT : found a workaround using line breaks, check DK55D

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Well, it is in the description:

“The text’s position. If this value is a player, then the text will appear above the player’s head. Otherwise, the value is interpreted as a position in the world.”

I do not think there is a solution.

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i think the only problem is that 1.5 is too low, i tried 2.5 and it worked fine and also maybe try update every frame to make it smoother

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Then you refer to Position Of(Event Player) which works and is considered to be player’s feet, to make it above a player from feet you need at least offfset the Y component of 2 or greater, the other option is to use Eye Position(Event Player) whch is approximately a player’s head.

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Thank you for all for your inputs. Unfortunately none of these solutions worked.
Only Event Player without any modifications parents the world-text to the actual player name tag and healthbar. Doing everything else parents it to the player world pos.
I’d send a video if I could share links but I have a code if anyone wanna see : DK55D
When the character is standing still and doing an emote (for example hello), the nametag moves along. only an unaltered EventPlayer follows it as well.
As a temp workaround I’m simply gonna put it well above and I wish to find a proper cleaner solution soon.

EDIT : I found a solution !
Using line breaks “\n” as saw with the code ATP4N
simply set a global variable as a custom string “\n”
then, in your world text, use Event player as position and add {0} at the end of your string.
{0} being your global variable and here you go, your custom world-text is attached to the player nametag but don’t appear in front of it no more.
Check how I used it with : DK55D