Attempt to index nil with leaderstats? Please help me!
I'm working a simulator game and this is a local script inside a textbutton. It's a upgrade gui for the simulator. The error is on line 4 (the error is: attempt to index nil with 'leaderstats'). Idk how to fix it so I'm asking the scriptinghelpers' community!
Thanks, notreallysupernova
01 | local CarRespawn = game.ReplicatedStorage.Stats.CarRespawn |
02 |
03 | script.Parent.MouseButton1Click:connect(function(Player) |
04 | local stats = Player.leaderstats -- This is the error |
05 | local money = stats:WaitForChild("Money") |
06 |
07 | local price = 300 |
08 | if money.Value >= price then |
09 | money.Value = money.Value - price |
10 | print("Purchased Upgrade") |
11 | CarRespawn.Value = CarRespawn.Value - 2 |
12 | end |
13 | end) |
4 answers
Your Player value is nil. Which means, "Player" is nil. If it's a local script in startergui, do
1 | local Player = script:FindFirstAncestorOfClass("Player"):WaitForChild("leaderstats",7) |
Or
1 | local Player = game.Players.LocalPlayer:WaitForChild("leaderstats",7) |
If it's in a server script/normal script, you can't get player by MB1Down in a gui.
Also also, you can't change player leaderstats value in a local script. You have to use a normal script and a remote event for that. You can do this:
1 | --[[ First, put a RemoteEvent in Replicated Storage before doing any of this. |
2 | ]] |
3 | -- Client/Local Script: |
4 | local remoteEvent = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage"):WaitForChild("RemoteEvent") |
5 |
6 | guiButton.MouseButton1Down:Connect(function() |
7 | remoteEvent:FireServer() |
8 | end |
01 | -- Server/Normal Script: |
02 | local remoteEvent = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage"):WaitForChild("RemoteEvent") |
03 |
04 | local CarRespawn = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage"):WaitForChild("Stats"):WaitForChild("CarRespawn") |
05 |
06 | local player = remoteEvent.OnServerEvent:Wait() |
07 | local leaderstats = player:WaitForChild("leaderstats",7) |
08 | local Money = leaderstats:WaitForChild("Money") |
09 |
10 | local price = 300 |
11 | if Money.Value >= price then |
12 | Money.Value -= price |
13 | print("Purchased") |
14 | CarRespawn.Value -= 2 |
15 | end |
I would suggest trying ;
local stats = game.Player.LocalPlayer.leaderstats
Tell me if that worked or not - Maren
Because this is a UI, in this case MouseButton1Down doesn’t have “player” as a parameter. So to get the player, you would use “LocalPlayer” which you can get by doing
1 | local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer |
That’ll work for you and you don’t need “player” in the parentheses in the MouseButton1Down event.
Your error is that you cannot call "Player" in localscripts. Instead, do this:
01 | local CarRespawn = game.ReplicatedStorage.Stats.CarRespawn |
02 |
03 | script.Parent.MouseButton1Click:connect(function() -- It would not have player here |
04 | local stats = game.Players.LocalPlayer.leaderstats -- This is the error -- use Localplayer instead |
05 | local money = stats:WaitForChild("Money") |
06 |
07 | local price = 300 |
08 | if money.Value >= price then |
09 | money.Value = money.Value - price |
10 | print("Purchased Upgrade") |
11 | CarRespawn.Value = CarRespawn.Value - 2 |
12 | end |
13 | end) |