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Error message "You can only tween objects in workspace" but I set the parent to workspace. Any help?

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commag 228

7 years ago

Edited 7 years ago

I was making a death Pillar script and it has no errors in the output, but in the client log, it says "can only tween objects in Workspace". Any ideas on how to fix?

01--made by commag
02 
03 
04local ChatService = game:GetService("Chat")
05 
06Plr = game.Players.LocalPlayer
07Char = Plr.Character
08TS = game:GetService("TweenService")
09repeat wait() until Char
10PG = Plr.PlayerGui
11G = Instance.new("ScreenGui", PG)
12MF = Instance.new("Frame", G)
13MF.Size = UDim2.new(0.2,0,0.2,0)
14MF.Style = "DropShadow"
15MF.Position = UDim2.new(0.8,0,0.8,0)
16EVal = Instance.new("StringValue", PG)
17EVal.Value = "Unequipped"
18T = Instance.new("TextButton", MF)
19T.BackgroundTransparency = 1
20T.Size = UDim2.new(1,0,1,0)
21T.Text = "Death Pillar: " .. EVal.Value
22T.TextScaled = true
23M = Plr:GetMouse()
24Casting = false
25 
26 
27 
28----------
29 
30M.Button1Down:connect(function()
31 
32if Casting == false and EVal.Value == "Equipped" then
33Casting = true
34 
35ChatService:Chat(Char, "I will cleanse this world...", "Green")
36wait(2)
37ChatService:Chat(Char, "With The Pillar Of Death!", "Green")
38 
39 
40Pillar = Instance.new("Part")
41Pillar.Shape = "Cylinder"
42Pillar.Size = Vector3.new(0.1,500,0.1)
43Pillar.Rotation = Vector3.new(0,90,0)
44Pillar.CFrame = CFrame.new(M.Hit.p)
45Pillar.TopSurface = "Smooth"
46Pillar.BottomSurface = "Smooth"
47Pillar.BrickColor = BrickColor.new("Really black")
48Pillar.Transparency = 0.4
49Pillar.Material = "Neon"
50Pillar.Anchored = true
51Pillar.CanCollide = false
52wait()
53Pillar.Parent = workspace
54 
55 
56local TIO = TweenInfo.new(
573,
58Enum.EasingStyle.Linear,
59Enum.EasingDirection.Out,
601,
61true,
622
63)
64 
65local Prop = {
66Size = Vector3.new(35,500,35)
67}
68 
69Pillar.Touched:connect(function(H)
70if game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(H.Parent) and H.Parent.Name ~= LS.Name then
71H.Parent:BreakJoints()
72 
73end
74 
75end)
76 
77local Tween = TS:Create(Pillar, TIO, Prop)
78Tween:Play()
79Pillar:Destroy() 
80wait()
81 
82Casting = false
83 
84 
85end
86end)
87 
88T.MouseButton1Click:connect(function()
89if EVal.Value == "Unequipped" and Casting == false then
90EVal.Value = "Equipped"
91elseif EVal.Value == "Equipped" and Casting == false then
92EVal.Value = "Unequipped"
93end
94end)
95 
96while wait() do
97T.Text = "Death Pillar: " .. EVal.Value
98end
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which line has the problem? Resplendid 3 — 7y

There are no errors in the script output, however in the client log, it says "Can only tween objects in the workspace" commag 228 — 7y

3 answers

Answered by

Azarth 3141

7 years ago

Edited 7 years ago

01-- Make your variables local unless you need them to be global. Local
02-- variables run faster than global variables.
03 
04-- Be more descriptive when naming your variables. Things get confusing fast.
05local ChatService = game:GetService("Chat")
06local Plr = game.Players.LocalPlayer
07-- Get Character or wait for it
08local Char = Plr.Character or Plr.CharacterAdded:wait()
09local TweenService = game:GetService("TweenService")
10-- WaitForChild() on children
11local PlayerGui = Plr:WaitForChild("PlayerGui")
12local ScreenGui = Instance.new("ScreenGui")
13local MainFrame = Instance.new("Frame", ScreenGui)
14-- U'D'im2.new()
15MainFrame.Size = UDim2.new(0.2,0,0.2,0)
16-- FrameStyle?
17-- MainFrame.FrameStyle = "DropShadow"
18MainFrame.Position = UDim2.new(0.8,0,0.8,0)
19local EVal = Instance.new("StringValue", PlayerGui)
20-- Make value a string, though I don't see why you need it. 
21-- If it's because something else changes it, uncomment this
22-- and below in the Button1Down event
23EVal.Value = 'Equipped'
24local TextButton = Instance.new("TextButton", MainFrame)
25TextButton.BackgroundTransparency = 1
26TextButton.Size = UDim2.new(1,0,1,0)
27TextButton.Text = "Death Pillar: " .. EVal.Value
28 
29-- Parent after you're done editing properties
30ScreenGui.Parent = PlayerGui
31 
32local player_mouse = Plr:GetMouse()
33local Casting = false
34 
35 
36 
37----------
38 
39-- Create now, clone when you need it.  
40local Pillar = Instance.new("Part")
41Pillar.Shape = "Cylinder"
42Pillar.Size = Vector3.new(0.1,500,0.1)
43Pillar.Rotation = Vector3.new(0,90,0)
44Pillar.TopSurface = "Smooth"
45Pillar.BottomSurface = "Smooth"
46Pillar.BrickColor = BrickColor.new("Really black")
47Pillar.Transparency = 0.4
48Pillar.Material = "Neon"
49Pillar.Anchored = true
50Pillar.CanCollide = false
51 
52-- Use 'C'onnect
53player_mouse.Button1Down:Connect(function()
54    if Casting == false then--and EVal.Value == "Equipped" then
55        Casting = true
56 
57        ChatService:Chat(Char, "I will cleanse this world...", "Green")
58        wait(2)
59        ChatService:Chat(Char, "With The Pillar Of Death!", "Green")
60 
61        local pillar_clone = Pillar:Clone()
62        pillar_clone.CFrame = CFrame.new(player_mouse.Hit.p)
63        pillar_clone.Parent = workspace
64 
65 
66        -- EasingDirection misspelled
67        local TIO = TweenInfo.new(3,Enum.EasingStyle.Linear,Enum.EasingDirection.Out,1,true,2)
68 
69        local Prop = {Size = Vector3.new(35,500,35)}
70 
71        pillar_clone.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
72            -- Always prepare for an error, else your script breaks. 
73            if hit and hit.Parent then
74                local player = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent)
75                if player then
76                    local victim_char = player.Character
77                    if victim_char then
78                        -- Always prepare for an error, else your script breaks. 
79                        local this_hum = victim_char:findFirstChild("Humanoid")
80                        if this_hum and this_hum.Health > 0 then
81                            player.Character:BreakJoints()
82                        end
83                    end
84                end
85            end
86        end)
87 
88        local Tween = TweenService:Create(pillar_clone, TIO, Prop)
89        Tween:Play()
90        -- Tween doesn't yield, so destroy is happening right away
91        -- Use something like what @thebootsie123 suggested. 
92        Tween.Completed:Connect(function()
93            pillar_clone:Destroy()
94        end)
95        wait(3) -- wait total tween time
96 
97        Casting = false
98    end
99end)
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Answered by

thebootsie123 160

7 years ago

Alright. So after a little figuring out and something found out by Azarth, what was happening was that the Pillar was getting created and then instantly destroyed since Tween:Play() doesn't yield the script. The fix this problem add this bit of code.

1Tween.Completed:connect(function()
2    Pillar:Destroy()
3end)

What this does is it uses the Tween event called completed. Once the tween is done playing it will run the completed event and then run the function. In this case, the function destroy's the pillar.

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Answered by

Resplendid 3

7 years ago

At Line 48, Change it to "Pillar.Parent = game.Workspace"

That is because you are not defining Workspace clearly, you said "workspace" the script doesn't know what that is unless you made a variable like:

`1`	`local` `workspace` `=` `game.Workspace`

No, I already did it. Roblox provides the shortcut workspace anyway commag 228 — 7y

Error message "You can only tween objects in workspace" but I set the parent to workspace. Any help?

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