How to select a random player in the server and move them somewhere?

[DevForumWanu10]

Hello, i tried to make a script where the script picks one of the players in a server and moves their position somewhere else.
the problem im facing is the players registered in game.players does not contain a humanoid,
for me when a player joins a new instance is created in game.players and game.workspace.
Both of those are registered in your name:

The model thats in workspace contains all the information/humanoid etc i need for this script to work.
but i use a GetChildren in the game.players, but it wont work in workspace because it will get all the models and parts. How do i get this script to work?

[astraIboy (The Batman)]

How about you try getting all the models in workspace and check if you have find them in game.Players and then insert them into a table, and then after youve found all of them do that math.random stuff to select a random players character

[DevForumWanu10]

Can you give me a idea, i took a long break of scripting but i dont know how to check if a name in workspace is also in for example players.

[astraIboy (The Batman)]

Yeah of course so basically this code loops through workspace and then it checks if the names of the models are in game.Players meaning that they indeed a player’s Character and then we get a randomPlayersCharacter

local playerCharacters = {}

for _, character in pairs(workspace:GetChildren()) do
	if game.Players:FindFirstChild(character.Name) then
		table.insert(playerCharacters, character)
	end
end

local randomPlayersCharacter = playerCharacters[math.random(1, #playerCharacters)]
print(randomPlayersCharacter)

Output

[DevForumWanu10]

@astraIboy

local playerCharacters = {}

for _, character in pairs(workspace:GetChildren()) do
	if game.Players:FindFirstChild(character.Name) then
		table.insert(playerCharacters, character)
	end
end

local randomPlayersCharacter = playerCharacters[math.random(1, #playerCharacters)]
print(randomPlayersCharacter)

ServerScriptService.Script:9: invalid argument #2 to ‘random’ (interval is empty) i get this error.

[astraIboy (The Batman)]

Did you just slap it into a server script or do you have it running at a certain time in a script?

The error is happening because there are no characters in the playerCharacters table

[DevForumWanu10]

slap it into a server script. do i need to make a loop or something?

[astraIboy (The Batman)]

Well I thought you had already some sort of code that would run this code at a certain time, if your just trying to test it your going to have to but a task.wait(2) so that the characters can load in before the script runs

[DevForumWanu10]

i did this:

task.wait(2)
local playerCharacters = {}

for _, character in pairs(workspace:GetChildren()) do
	if game.Players:FindFirstChild(character.Name) then
		table.insert(playerCharacters, character)
	end
end

local randomPlayersCharacter = playerCharacters[math.random(1, #playerCharacters)]
print(randomPlayersCharacter)

still getting the same error.

[astraIboy (The Batman)]

It worked for me but I waited 5 seconds try changing it to a longer wait time

[DevForumWanu10]

Never mind, it works find, i just realised i had like 20 tabs open making it really slow to load and it needed more than 2 seconds to load my character in.