Attempt to index nil with Name Error?

TheDCraft · July 20, 2020, 7:40pm

local tween = require(game:GetService("ServerStorage").Modules.Tweening)
local httpService = game:GetService("HttpService")
local plr = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer
local add = require(game.ServerStorage.Modules.AddingItems)

script.Parent.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
       print(plr.Name) -- if its just plr it will print 'nil'
       local location = script.Parent.Parent
       local pos1 = 0.5
       local pos2 = 1.5
       tween.out(plr, location, pos1, pos2)
       add.BuyWeapons(2, plr)
end)

This is my current script and for some reason i get error saying “attempt to index nil with Name”. Not sure what the problems is, I’ve tried many different ways and none of them work.

LifeDigger · July 20, 2020, 7:48pm

You also need to have “” around the name you want to print as it is a text string. So it should be like

print("plr.Name")

Hope this helps and sorry if it does not as I am new to scripting but this is quite basic.

DarkDanny04 · July 20, 2020, 7:48pm

You can’t use LocalPlayer in a server script.

TheDCraft · July 20, 2020, 7:49pm

This wouldn’t work this would just print “plr.Name” in the output

LifeDigger · July 20, 2020, 7:50pm

Were did he/she do that? That was a variable at the start.

TheDCraft · July 20, 2020, 7:50pm

I originally had script.Parent.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function(player) but that doesn’t work.

DarkDanny04 · July 20, 2020, 7:50pm

local plr = game:GetService(“Players”).LocalPlayer

That’s where.

but that doesn’t work.

Player isn’t a parameter for MouseButton1Click function.

LifeDigger · July 20, 2020, 7:51pm

What are you trying to do with the script then because you use print to print things in the output?

TheDCraft · July 20, 2020, 7:52pm

I am trying to print the players name so I know who pressed it, just to test it out.

DarkDanny04 · July 20, 2020, 7:53pm

I’m not too sure what the module script does, and I don’t really need to know, but you should use a remote event, and have the click function in a local script.

GalaxyGourmet · July 20, 2020, 7:53pm

You can’t get LocalPlayer in server scripts. Consider using a LocalScript, and use remotes to communicate with the server, or find another way to get the player.

LifeDigger · July 20, 2020, 7:53pm

I am not sure then sorry. You should have really put that in the description of what is wrong.

DevFoyRBX · July 20, 2020, 7:58pm

local tween = require(game:GetService(“ServerStorage”).Modules.Tweening)
local httpService = game:GetService(“HttpService”)
local add = require(game.ServerStorage.Modules.AddingItems)

script.Parent.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function(Player)
print(Player.Name) – if its just plr it will print ‘nil’
local location = script.Parent.Parent
local pos1 = 0.
local pos2 = 1.5
tween.out(plr, location, pos1, pos2)
add.BuyWeapons(2, Player)
end)

Not sure if this fixes it

TheDCraft · July 20, 2020, 8:03pm

Already tried that, I’m going to use a local script.

BuilderMasterWOW · July 20, 2020, 8:27pm

Always use a LocalScript for UI related stuff. Also, LocalPlayer does not work in a regular script. All you need to change is that. Once you change it everything should work.

DevFoyRBX · July 23, 2020, 1:46pm

Just looking back into it and I just realised it said MouseButton1Click

use player and do

local tween = require(game:GetService("ServerStorage").Modules.Tweening)
local httpService = game:GetService("HttpService")
local add = require(game.ServerStorage.Modules.AddingItems)

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)
       script.Parent.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
       print(Player.Name) -- if its just plr it will print 'nil'
       local location = script.Parent.Parent
       local pos1 = 0.5
       local pos2 = 1.5
       tween.out(plr, location, pos1, pos2)
       add.BuyWeapons(2, Player)
       end)
end)

bjdanh266 · July 23, 2020, 1:48pm

use ``` to format code

local tween = require(game:GetService(“ServerStorage”).Modules.Tweening)
local httpService = game:GetService(“HttpService”)
local add = require(game.ServerStorage.Modules.AddingItems)

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)
script.Parent.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
print(Player.Name) – if its just plr it will print ‘nil’
local location = script.Parent.Parent
local pos1 = 0.5
local pos2 = 1.5
tween.out(plr, location, pos1, pos2)
add.BuyWeapons(2, Player)
end)
end)

RazerLauncher · July 1, 2021, 2:06pm

if that’s a server script then on the 3rd line you cant get .LocalPlayer because you can only get it through a local script so it returns Nil instead of the player