How can I control "CurrentCamara" if the player's Character is nil?
I am trying to make a spectate system where when a player presses a the Shift button when he/she is dead, it will focus the camera on a player that is alive. When a player is dead in my game, his/her character is set to nil. The player's character doesn't reload until the next round.
--[[
NOTE: This is in a LocalScript in StarterPack.
It makes sure if the player does not have a Character to continue.
]]--
local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local mouse = player:GetMouse()
local cam = game.Workspace.CurrentCamera
mouse.KeyDown:connect(function(key)
if key:byte() == 48 then --If left shift is pressed
if not player.Character then --If the player is dead
local randomPlayer = nil
for i, v in pairs (game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
if player:FindFirstChild("Character") then
randomPlayer = v --Finds a random player
print("Spectating: "..randomPlayer.Name)
cam.CameraType = Enum.CameraType.Follow
cam.CameraSubject = randomPlayer.Character.Humanoid
break
end
end
end
end
end)
It prints the name of the person whom you are supposed to spectate in the output, but after that, I get an error saying attempting to index a nil value for the line where I am setting the CameraSubject to the randomPlayer's humanoid. I have tried to set the CameraSubject to randomPlayer's head as well, but it gave me the same error message.
Any suggestions on how I can change the CameraSubject of a player's camera when his/her character is in a nil state?
1 answer
I'm not sure how your code is even running.
Even if the player has a .Character, player:FindFirstChild("Character") will return nil -- the character is a property, not a child.
Your if on line 15 is probably supposed to be using v, not player (and again, not using :FindFirstChild).
Right now, there's no point in randomPlayer as a variable -- you might as well just use v (though I would give it a better name, like other or otherPlayer).
If you actually want to pick a random player with a Character, you should make a list of all of those with Characters (with Humanoids)
mouse.KeyDown:connect(function(key)
if key:byte() == 48 then --If left shift is pressed
if not player.Character then --If the player is dead
local candidates = {}
for _, other in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
if other.Character and other.Character:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
table.insert(candidates, other.Character.Humanoid)
end
end
if #candidates >= 1 then
-- If there is at least one candidate...
local randomHumanoid = candidates[math.random(#candidates)]
-- Search on SH for picking random things for more
-- information about how this works
cam.CameraType = Enum.CameraType.Follow
cam.CameraSubject = randomHumanoid
end
end
end
end
Even if the Character is set to nil, the CurrentCamera will remain; that was not the cause of any issue.
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