Attempt to index nil with 'Character'

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1

server cant get player character (it exists!)
when player use tool, localscript fires server for get server player name
however, even thought server gets fire, player still unknown

CLIENT:

local tool = script.Parent
local remote = tool:WaitForChild("throwFunction")
local event = tool:WaitForChild("throwEvent")

local players = game:GetService("Players")
local uis = game:GetService("UserInputService")

local plr = players.LocalPlayer

local rig = script.Parent.rig

rig.Value = tostring(game.Players.LocalPlayer.Character:WaitForChild("Humanoid").RigType)

remote.OnClientInvoke = function()
	return plr:GetMouse().Hit.p
end

script.Parent.Activated:Connect(function()
	game.ReplicatedStorage.possession.getplayer:FireServer()
	game.ReplicatedStorage.possession.CLIENT_:Fire()
end)

SERVER:

local players = game:GetService("Players")
local replicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")

local player2 

local botname = replicatedStorage.possession.current_bot

local bte = replicatedStorage.possession.bot_possessed_b

replicatedStorage.possession.getplayer.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(Player)
	player2 = Player
	print(player2.Name) -- this prints my player name
end)

local physics = game:GetService("PhysicsService")
local possessmodule = require(replicatedStorage.possession.dopossess)
local selfbot
script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
	if replicatedStorage.possession_settings.possessor_enabled.Value == false then
		script.Parent:Destroy()
		return
	end
	if hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("ung_bot") then
		selfbot = hit.Parent.Name
		botname.Value = selfbot
		script.Parent:Destroy()
		if not hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("canbepossessed").Value then
			local cantpossess = replicatedStorage.possession_effects.cannot_possess.PossessionAttachment:Clone()
			cantpossess.Parent = hit.Parent.HumanoidRootPart
			local redlight = Instance.new("PointLight")
			redlight.Parent = cantpossess
			redlight.Color = Color3.fromRGB(255, 0, 4)
			redlight.Enabled = true
			redlight.Shadows = true
			redlight.Brightness = 3
			redlight.Range = 25
			task.wait(5)
			cantpossess:Destroy()
			redlight:Destroy()
			return 
		end		
		possessmodule.destroyPossess(player2) -- but there, "player2" is unknown. WHY?!?!?!?!?
		bte:Fire(player2)
	elseif hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("ung_3dbot") then
		local cantpossess = replicatedStorage.possession_effects.cannot_possess.PossessionAttachment:Clone()
		cantpossess.Parent = hit.Parent.HumanoidRootPart
		local redlight = Instance.new("PointLight")
		redlight.Parent = cantpossess
		redlight.Color = Color3.fromRGB(255, 0, 4)
		redlight.Enabled = true
		redlight.Shadows = true
		redlight.Brightness = 3
		redlight.Range = 25
		task.wait(5)
		cantpossess:Destroy()
		redlight:Destroy()
		return
	else
		return
	end
end)

MODULE (function):

function module.destroyPossess(plr:Player)
	if rs.possession_settings.one_time_use.Value then
		if not plr.Character:FindFirstChild("possessor") then
			plr.Backpack:WaitForChild("possessor"):Destroy()
		else
			plr.Character:FindFirstChild("possessor"):Destroy()
		end
	end
end
2

From the module script you sent, I can’t see return keyword in it. If you require a module script with no return keyword in it, it will always return nil and it will just run the code inside the module script. Maybe that’s the problem?

Correct code:

return function module.destroyPossess(plr:Player)
	if rs.possession_settings.one_time_use.Value then
		if not plr.Character:FindFirstChild("possessor") then
			plr.Backpack:WaitForChild("possessor"):Destroy()
		else
			plr.Character:FindFirstChild("possessor"):Destroy()
		end
	end
end
3

nope, that is not the problem, if i do this function in same server script, it anyway will throw an error

4

They likely return the ‘module’ table at the end of the script.

5

Add print(plr) to the function to make sure it isn’t ‘nil’.

6

when server gets fire and player name, server knows it, but when touched function performed - player no longer “exists” for script

7

possessmodule.destroyPossess(player2) -- but there, "player2" is unknown. WHY?!?!?!?!?
Add print(player2.Name) before this line.