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LocalScript can't find bool value in the player?

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Okay, so I made a script that would create a bool value to check if the game intro is ran. Here is the script for that:

game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(function(player)
	local IntroRan = Instance.new('BoolValue', player)
	IntroRan.Name = 'IntroRan'
	IntroRan = false
end)

So I checked the location when I went into play mode, and I saw the Boolvalue where it should be (Players.LocalPlayer). I also created local script to check if the bool value is true or not, and if it is, it will enable a script. Here is the script for that:

local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local introran = player.IntroRan
while true do
	wait(0.05)
if introran == true then
	player.PlayerGui.Warning.LocalScript.Disabled = false
end
end

It looks like the scripts should work but it doesn't. In the script output, it says that the bool is not a valid member of player. What's wrong?

Anonymous

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Most likely, the LocalScript is running before the event listener function to PlayerAdded does. So, when the LocalScript runs, IntroRan doesn't exist. This can be remedied by using WaitForChild:

local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local introran = player:WaitForChild('IntroRan') --// This will yield the script until IntroRan exists.
while true do
	wait(0.05)
	if introran then
		player.PlayerGui.Warning.LocalScript.Disabled = false
	end
end

Also, I'm not entirely sure why you're using a while loop there; it would probably be best to omit it entirely.

Hope this helped.

PS: See how much easier it is to read your code when it's properly indented? I fixed it for you this time, but please properly indent your code in the future.

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Ok, thank you, also its in a loop so that it keeps checking (is there another way to do that?).

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