It keeps returning nil for player and saying that im trying to index a nil with 'WaitForChild' even though I have tried adding a wait command and changing player to 'game.Players.LocalPlayer' I'm new to scripting and I don't know what else to do.
local buyButton = script.Parent
local player = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer
local multiplier = player:WaitForChild("Multiplier")
buyButton.MouseButton1Up:Connect(function()
if multiplier.Value == 0 then
multiplier.Value = 1
end
end)
Instead of local player = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer you want to do:
local players = game:GetService("Players")
local player = players.localplayer
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I can not resolve this by my self.
Thank You for helping.
This is my first stackoverflow question :3
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Latest available version as of 2022 October 03
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The output:
ServerScriptService.CheckpointsScript:31: attempt to index nil with 'leaderstats'
The code:
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local CheckpointsFolder = game.Workspace.Checkpoints
Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
local leaderstats = Instance.new("Folder")
leaderstats.Name = "leaderstats"
leaderstats.Parent = player
local Stage = Instance.new("IntValue")
Stage.Name = "Stage"
Stage.Parent = leaderstats
--player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(char)
-- local checkpoint = CheckpointsFolder:FindFirstChild(Stage.Value)
-- player.Character..CFrame = CFrame.new(checkpoint.PrimaryPart.CFrame.Position.Y + 5 =, checkpoint.PrimaryPart.CFrame.Rotation)
--end)
end)
for _, v in pairs(CheckpointsFolder:GetChildren()) do
if v:IsA("BasePart") then
v.Touched:Connect(function(part)
local player = Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(part.Parent)
local stageValue = player.leaderstats.Stage
if player and stageValue.Value < tonumber(v.Name) then
stageValue.Value = v.Name
end
end)
end
end
Your issue is coming from this line
local stageValue = player.leaderstats.Stage
And that is because the Touched event fires for any object that touches it. And you need to make sure that player actually exists.
You are doing this already, you just need to move this line inside your safety check.
local player = Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(part.Parent)
if player then
local stage = player.leaderstats.Stage
local currentStage = tonumber(v.Name)
if stage.Value < currentStage then
stage.Value = currentStage
end
end
When trying to respawn the player with plr:LoadCharacter() it just gives me:
attempt to index nil with 'LoadCharacter' & I tried multiple ways to do it such as Player:LoadCharacter() or is there a more efficient way to kill/respawn the player?
--Declared Boolean Global variable
_G.TimerStart = false
--Local Paths to Objeccts
local label = game.StarterGui.TimerGUI.Timer
-- Get Service Variables
local Teams = game:GetService("Teams")
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local plr = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer
--Get Children
local Child = game.Players:GetChildren()
-- Wait for Child Variables
local TimeCountdown = ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("Timer")
local timerevent = ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("Timer")
local function Thieves(Players)
if _G.TimerStart == false then
for i,v in pairs(game.Teams.Thieves:GetPlayers()) do
game.StarterGui.ThiefWinScreen.Frame.TextLabel.Script.Disabled = false
wait(2)
plr:LoadCharacter()
wait(7)
timerAmount = 120
end
for i,v in pairs(game.Teams.Police:GetPlayers()) do
game.StarterGui.ThiefWinScreen.Frame.TextLabel.Script.Disabled = false
wait(2)
plr:LoadCharacter()
wait(7)
timerAmount = 120
end
end
end
In this case plr is a nil value. So plr:LoadCharacter() is not allowed as it does not make any sense.
local plr = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer
is the reason.
So refer to this manual page: https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/property/Players/LocalPlayer
Maybe this helps:
Loading GUIs When creating loading GUIs using ReplicatedFirst, sometimes a LocalScript can run before the LocalPlayer is available.
In this case, you should yield until it becomes available by using
Instance:GetPropertyChangedSignal
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
-- Below: access Players.LocalPlayer; if it is nil, we'll wait for it using GetPropertyChangedSignal.
local player = Players.LocalPlayer or Players:GetPropertyChangedSignal("LocalPlayer"):wait()
script.Parent.MouseButton1Click:connect(function()
local RS = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local item = RS:WaitForChild("Pencil")
local price = 350
local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local stats = player:WaitForChild("leaderstats")
if stats.Strength.Value>=price then
stats.Strength.Value = stats.Strength.Value - price
local cloned = item:Clone()
cloned.Parent = player.Backpack
cloned.Parent = player.StarterGear
end
end)
I am trying to make a shop and it comes up with "attempt to index nil with 'WaitForChild'" on line 6:
local stats = player:WaitForChild("leaderstats")
I copied it exactly how the video had it and the video had no problem and apparently player has no value even though we set it up just one line above
It means that you are indexing a nil value, which means that player value is nil, which means that game.Players.LocalPlayer on the previous like returns nil. Why that is you need to figure out, as there is not much to go by.
The example shows that it should be local player = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer, so you may want to try that.
So I am using a remote function, as seen at the end, and for some reason, a normal assignment of a variable won't work, it is giving me the error message, "Unable to cast value to Object," what is wrong?
local storeEvent = script.Parent.Parent.OpenStore
local slotNum = 1
script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function (hit)
if game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent) then
storeEvent:InvokeClient(slotNum)
end
end)
and connecting to the other script:
script.Parent.OnInvoke:Connect(function (slot)
local StoreArrows = game.ReplicatedStorage.StoreArrows
StoreArrows.SlotNum.Value = slot
local cam = game.Workspace.Camera
local storeButtons = script.Parent
local camNum = game.ReplicatedStorage.StoreArrows.CamNum.Value
local camNumInst = game.Workspace.CamStorage:WaitForChild("Cam-"..camNum)
cam.CameraType = Enum.CameraType.Scriptable
cam.CFrame = camNumInst.CFrame
local clonedStoreButtons = StoreArrows:Clone()
clonedStoreButtons.Parent = player.PlayerGui.ScreenGui
end)
Keep in mind that many clients connect to a server at a time. So when you call a RemoteEvent's InvokeClient function, you have to tell it which client to invoke it on. The first parameter to InvokeClient is supposed to be the player, that's why the error is telling you that it cannot cast the slotNum value to a player object.
local storeEvent = script.Parent.Parent.OpenStore
local slotNum = 1
script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
-- check that the thing that we touched is actually a player
local player = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent)
if player then
-- tell that player to open the store
storeEvent:InvokeClient(player, slotNum)
end
end)
I am trying to clone an object from the replicatedstorage to the players backpack when an object part is touched and the code looks fine for me but it keeps giving a nil response from clone.parent = player.backpack
local replicatedtorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local Sword = replicatedtorage:FindFirstChild("Sword")
local part = game.Workspace.Part
local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local clone = Sword:Clone()
part.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
local humanoid = hit.parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
if humanoid ~= nil then
clone.Parent = player.Backpack
end
end)
This looks like a server Script which cannot access Players.LocalPlayer like clients can because there is no local player to the server. A way to get the Player that touched a part is through Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter() which requires one instance to be passed and will either return the Player whose Character is that instance or nil.
part.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
local character = hit.Parent
local player = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(character)
if player then
clone.Parent = player.Backpack
end
end)
This should work right away in your script and can replace your existing Touched connection.