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How to display a value that is within a character?
Hey, I am having trouble displaying a value located in the "workspace.Charactername" area. The following is what I have in a Local script that is within a text label.
local Clothingvlu = game.Players.LocalPlayer.Character.Clothing local mode = "Bleh"--ignore script.Parent.Text = "" ..Clothingvlu.Value.. " (P) of clothing."
When I run this I get the following error:
16:17:39.990 - Clothing is not a valid member of Model
16:17:39.991 - Script 'Players.Player.PlayerGui.TradeSystemGUI.ClothingAmount.Loca', Line 1
16:17:39.992 - Stack End
This is especially confusing because I can use this other script with no trouble at all: (Its not a local script)
function onButtonClicked() --This gets the player who clicked and changes a value within the player local h = script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.Character.Clothing h.Value = 101 print (h.Value) end script.Parent.MouseButton1Click:connect(onButtonClicked)
Help appreciated
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Assuming the first script is in their PlayerGui, the PlayerGui tends to load before the actual character. Use the WaitForChild method to well, wait for the child.
local Clothingvlu = game.Players.LocalPlayer.Character:WaitForChild('Clothing')
local mode = "Bleh"--ignore
script.Parent.Text = Clothingvlu.Value.. " (P) of clothing."
Another way is by adding a wait()
repeat wait() until game.Players.LocalPlayer.Character local Clothingvlu = game.Players.LocalPlayer.Character local mode = "Bleh"--ignore script.Parent.Text = Clothingvlu.Value.. " (P) of clothing."
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Ok so I tried what you said and it gave me and error saying: WaitForChild called on an Instance that is not in a DataModel. So I thought about what you said and tried adding a wait(1) at the begging of the program and it worked, so in a way you helped me. Thanks! lordrex12345 25 — 10y
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No problem. You could also use repeat wait() to wait for the character. I'll update my answer Shawnyg 4330 — 10y