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Player Won't take damage?

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So upon writing a quick and easy damage script,I keep on getting this part of an error "Human(a nil value)"

Here's the script:

--Upon stepping on the glass shard, damage will be taken.
local Human = script:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") --Required for the damage to be taken
local GlassShard = script.Parent --The object that does the damage

GlassShard.Touched:Connect(function()
	Human:TakeDamage(2) --The player will take 2 damage points upon touching the shard
end)

Please tell me what's wrong with this.I don't see anything wrong.

Anonymous

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Hello, RoccoAttackYT!

--Upon stepping on the glass shard, damage will be taken.
-- Removed this human because the script don't have a child called "Humanoid"
local GlassShard = script.Parent --The object that does the damage

GlassShard.Touched:Connect(function(part) -- part is now a reference to what touched
	Human = part.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") -- Tryes to refer to touch part's parent humanoid
	if (Human) then --Test if is player(or NPC) based on humanoid existing
		Human:TakeDamage(2) --The player will take 2 damage points upon touching the shard
	end
end)

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Good Luck with your games

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Thanks man.I modified it a bit so I hope you don't mind and thanks for the good luck.Good luck to you to!

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why is Human global

Anonymous#
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? Why I choose "Human" as the var name? I just copyed from the original script

Anonymous#
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Welp, The humanoid goes before touch, and add a argument function(here) which distributes the function needed for the part.touch:connect thing to work but since someone solved this.

Anonymous#
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wait the humanoid varible goes like inside the function

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