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Why am I getting Nil Value?

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Ok I'm trying to animate a brick into a teleporter where it will go up if touched but when I teleport it does not go down all the way, it's saying this error: attempt to index field 'Parent' (a nil value)

How can I fix this?

gui.teleport.MouseButton1Click:connect(function()
	if not selloc then return end
	if(selloc.Group.Value ~= 0)then 
		local infoassoc = groupserv:GetGroupInfoAsync(selloc.Group.Value)
		if(infoassoc and (not me:IsInGroup(selloc.Group.Value)))then 
			gui.cardview.grouperror.Text = "Teleport Failed: You're not in the group \""..infoassoc.Name.."\""
			gui.cardview.grouperror.Visible = true
			return 
		end
	end
	local teleport = Instance.new("IntValue", me)
	teleport.Name = "JustTeleported"
	game:GetService("Debris"):AddItem(teleport, 5)
	gui.Visible = false
	wait(2)
	porter.User.Value = nil
	me.Character:MoveTo(selloc.Porter.Position)
	me.Character.Humanoid.WalkSpeed = 16
	for i = 1,10 do	
	local Part = game.workspace['Instant Teleport'].Union
	Part.CFrame = Part.CFrame * CFrame.new(0,-1,0)
	wait(1)
	script.Parent:Destroy() -- Error occurs here
end
end)
Anonymous

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Your'e going to need to provide more context . . . The problem is being caused by another part of this script.

Anonymous#

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You've put script.Parent:Destroy() in a for loop that repeats 10 times. My guess is that you want it to be:

	--rest of script here, up to and including the line: me.Character.Humanoid.WalkSpeed = 16
	local Part = game.workspace['Instant Teleport'].Union
	for i = 1, 10 do
		Part.CFrame = Part.CFrame * CFrame.new(0,-1,0)
		wait(1)
	end
	script.Parent:Destroy()
end)

You can minimize errors like this by using proper indentation (there should be an extra indent after the 'for'). If you ever see two "ends" in a row at the same indent level, you've missed indenting a block.

The error is occurring because script.Parent:Destroy() destroys the script (since script is a child of script.Parent), setting its .Parent property to nil. Attempting to call anything on a nil value causes the type of error you encountered.

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