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How would I solve this problem about someone reseting?
If someone resets while having a ForceField the code will get a error and not work. How would I go about solving this issue.
local players = game.Players:GetChildren()
for i, plr in ipairs(players) do
local shieldCheck = plr.Character:FindFirstChildOfClass("ForceField")
shieldCheck:Destroy()
Error I am getting: ServerScriptService.mainscript:58: attempt to index local 'shieldCheck' (a nil value)
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Check if shieldCheck exists before attempting to call :Destroy() on it. FindFirstChildOfClass will return nil if it cannot find the class it was fed. CorruptScript 86 — 5y
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Thanks! I knew it was something simple like that. dracefiery 4 — 5y
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Reiterating what was previously mentioned in the comments, your problem is that the script is told to destroy a ForceField that may or may not exist.
If you run that code and the player's character doesn't have a child of the ForceField class, the variable shieldCheck gets set to nil. You can't call :Destroy() on nil. It doesn't make sense.
Therefore you have to check if the ForceField exists before trying to destroy it. It's fairly simple. Appending what you posted already, it would look like this:
local players = game.Players:GetChildren()
for i, plr in ipairs(players) do
local shieldCheck = plr.Character:FindFirstChildOfClass("ForceField")
if shieldCheck then
shieldCheck:Destroy()
end