Why does the character variable get nil'd ingame?

Asked Feb 13, 2017308 views1 answers

Inside a LocalScript:

ply=game.Players.LocalPlayer
char=ply.Character
hum=char.Humanoid

I have also tried:

ply=game.Players.LocalPlayer
char=ply:WaitForChild('Character')
hum=char:WaitForChild('Humanoid')

Errors in-game:

attempt to index local 'char', a nil value

AnonymousFeb 13, 2017

poke (look below)

AnonymousFeb 13, 2017#

1 answer

✓ Accepted answer

You'll have to do

local char = ply.Character or ply.CharacterAdded:wait()

That last one will make the script yield till the characterAdded event is fired, and give the character as return instance.

Thanks

AnonymousFeb 13, 2017#

Might I add, what do you use to define humanoid after that?

AnonymousFeb 13, 2017#

Theres no function for HumanoidAdded, you can use -----char:WaitForChild("Humanoid")------ instead.

AnonymousFeb 13, 2017#

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