Help with getting character from player?
game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(function(p)
local c = p.Character
for i, chara in pairs(c:GetChildren()) do
if chara:IsA("Hat") then
chara:Destroy()
end
end
end)
I have this script that gets the players character and gets rid of their hats when they join the game. It works up to line 3, when it says that C is nil. Why is that? I'm not 100% sure that p.Character is how you get the character from the player, but that's what it says everywhere I went for help.
Someone help me with this?
2 answers
Your Problem
Your problem is that the character hasn't loaded yet, when the script reads line 3, which uses the GetChildren function, it reads 'c' as 'nil' since 'c' hasn't loaded yet.
Solution
There are a couple ways of doing this, but the ultimate goal is to yield the script until the character isn't nil. An easy solution is to use a CharacterAdded event, which is precisely like the PlayerAdded event, but for characters!
Code
game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(function(p)
p.CharacterAdded:connect(function(c) --CharacterAdded event
for i, chara in pairs(c:GetChildren()) do
if chara:IsA("Hat") then
chara:Destroy()
end
end
end)
end)
Here try this, I added a wait
EDIT:Waiting is essential because we want to make sure the character get loaded before doing anything else.
Also, Goulstem smells
game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(function(Player)
repeat wait() until Player.Character
local Character = Player.Character
for _, v in pairs(Character:GetChildren()) do
if v:IsA("Hat") then
v:Destroy()
end
end
end)
Thank you