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attempt to index nil with waitforchild()?

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I am working on a singleplayer game and I want to create a flashlight, but the script I am using doesn't work.

Error: ServerScriptService.Other.FlashlightSetup:5: attempt to index nil with 'WaitForChild'

local players = game:GetService("Players")

local function createFlashlight()
	local character = game.Workspace:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("Model")
	local torso = character:WaitForChild("Torso") -- attempt to index nil with 'WaitForChild'
	
	local light = Instance.new("PointLight", torso)
	light.Name "flashlight"
	light.Color = "White"
	light.Enabled = false
	light.Brightness = 30
end

players.PlayerAdded:Connect(createFlashlight)
Anonymous

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The player is not your character. They are two separate things. When your player is added the character is not yet loaded.

I'd advise in this case to remove the PlayerAdded part and move this script to StarterCharacterScripts inside StarterPlayer. This means the script will automatically be put inside every character that spawns in.

The only thing you'd have to change at that point is local character = script.Parent

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