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Infinite yield possible on 'Players.Player1:WaitForChild("Character")'? any help

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this is the error Infinite yield possible on 'Players.Player1:WaitForChild("Character")'

here's a part of the script

game.Players.LocalPlayer:WaitForChild("leaderstats") game.Players.LocalPlayer.leaderstats:WaitForChild("Level") game.StarterGui:WaitForChild("Hp") game.StarterGui.Hp.Frame.Frame:WaitForChild("HpPart") game.StarterGui.Hp.Lv:WaitForChild("LVL DISPLAY SCRIPT")

local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer player:WaitForChild("Character") local Character = player.Character

if game.Players.LocalPlayer.leaderstats.Level.Value == 1 then player.Character.Humanoid.MaxHealth = 250 player.Character.Humanoid.Health = 250 end

the problem is in this part

local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer player:WaitForChild("Character") local Character = player.Character

i can't figure it out? any help ?

Anonymous

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Players.Player1:WaitForChild("Character") will always return nil, since Character is not a Child, its a redirection.

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Essentially all this means is that ROBLOX is warning you that your script can potentially wait forever, if the object you set to wait for hasn't been made.

You shouldn't have a problem with it (and it is just a warning, not an error), but if you want to get rid of the error, set a time where if the object is not created, the WaitForChild will just return nil and end. Ex:

game.Workspace:WaitForChild("Part", 100) -- if after 100 seconds there is no part in the workspace, this function will return nil.

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thank you so much!

Anonymous#

In your following script,

local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer player:WaitForChild("Character") local Character = player.Character

Remove the part player:WaitForChild("Character")

The correct script becomes local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer local Character = player.Character

Character is not child of player although we can write player.Character. player:WaitForChild("Character") will always result infinite yield since player will never get a child named Character.

if you want to make sure player.Character exists, use local Character = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:wait()

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