Why is this teleport player script not working?
I have a very basic script that teleports players to a specific Vector3 position as seen here:
1 | if player.Character then |
2 | player.Character:MoveTo(Vector3.new(5,5,5)) |
3 | end |
What I am trying to do, but cannot figure out, is how to have a more generalized Vector3 value so that the position will change based on which map is loaded and where the part "Spawn" is in that map. My attempt at the solution:
1 | Maps = game.ReplicatedStorage.Maps:GetChildren() --Gets the map |
2 | Spawn = Maps.Spawn.Value.Value --Vector3Value parented to a part called "Spawn" |
3 |
4 | if player.Character then |
5 | player.Character:MoveTo(Vector3.new(Spawn)) --Attempt to use the Vector3 value |
6 | end |
I get an error as a result of running the code above which says "attempt to index field 'Spawn' (a nil value). Is there something I am doing wrong?
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2 answers
Problem
So what is happening is GetChildren is a table of indexes and values. Hence there is that i,v in pairs often times used. Since GetChildren's indexes are all number values from 1 to however many objects are children under the object. The script is seeing something like:
1 | { |
2 | 1 = Brick, |
3 | 2 = Brick, |
4 | 3 = Brick, |
5 | 4 = Spawn, |
6 | --etc. |
7 | } |
Since the index values are numbers and doing Maps.Spawn, the Spawn is the index the script is trying to find. However, since Spawn can never be an index for GetChildren, it will return a nil value.
Solution
The best way I see to do this is just using FindFirstChild on the Maps model to find Spawn. This may be a temporary fix, however you would need to ask with further attempt of making this script separate spawns for teams.
Final Script
1 | Maps = game.ReplicatedStorage.Maps:GetChildren() --Gets the map |
2 | Spawn = Maps:FindFirstChild("Spawn") |
3 | SpawnVector = Spawn.Value.Value --Vector3Value parented to a part called "Spawn" |
4 |
5 | if player.Character then |
6 | player.Character:MoveTo(SpawnVector) --Since you claim Spawn (Now SpawnVector) was a Vector3Value object, having Vector3.new() is redundant. |
7 | end |
Hopefully this answered your question. If it did, do not forget to hit the accept answer button. If you have any questions, feel free to comment below. If I made a mistake, or the script is still generating an error let me know so I may resolve it.
You called GetChildren() on Maps, GetChildren returns a table whereas I expect you want a random map from that folder? Here's a quick fix that would get a random map from the maps
1 | Maps=game.ReplicatedStorage.Maps:GetChildren()[math.random(1,#game.ReplicatedStorage.Maps:GetChildren())] |
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