So I was trying to make a clone of yourself if you click a button, but I get the error "Workspace.Part.ClickDetector.Script:8: attempt to index local 'clone' (a nil value)"
game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player) local name = player.Name
script.Parent.MouseClick:connect(function() local x = workspace:FindFirstChild(name) print (x.Name) local clone = x:Clone() clone.Parent = game.Workspace end) end)
Use :GetService() to retrieve the Players Service
Use the CharacterAdded Event of the Player Instance to get the model, rather than FindFirstChild()
game.Workspace can be shortened to workspace
connect is deprecated in favor of Connect
When the player's Character is created, you can only :Clone() it if its Archivable property is manually set to true, since otherwise, as you've seen, the Instance's Clone function will return nil
game:GetService("Players").PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(x)
x.Archivable = true
script.Parent.MouseClick:Connect(function()
local clone = x:Clone()
clone.Parent = workspace
end)
end)
end)
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That means the value of clone is nil, and trying to do nil.Parent will error. FindFirstChild probably returned nil (if no child of that name can be found).
It did find a child, it printed x.Name (which is the player's name)
Why do you have two random links that lead to nowhere?
Figured out that characters aren't archivable, so I made the character archivable before I cloned it.