Attempt to index nil with 'WaitForChild'

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#1

I am currently using a ‘touched’ function to let the player leave the level by fading into a black ui frame once the leaderstat named ‘Items’ is is 5, but it keeps giving me an error saying this:

Workspace.Map1.Exit.Script:5: attempt to index nil with 'WaitForChild'

Here is the full script:

local TweenService = game:GetService('TweenService')

script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function(player)
	local plr = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(player)
	if plr:WaitForChild("leaderstats").Items.Value == 5 then
		game.Workspace.WooScary.AI.Disabled = true
		
		local load = plr.PlayerGui.PlayScreen.Load

		TweenService:Create(
			load,
			TweenInfo.new(2),
			{BackgroundTransparency = 1}
		):Play()

		wait(2)

		TweenService:Create(
			load,
			TweenInfo.new(2),
			{BackgroundTransparency = 0}
		):Play()
	end
end)

Does anyone have a solution?

#2

Touched returns a BasePart and GetPlayerFromCharacter needs a Model, since player is a BasePart, it returns nil, change that part to this

local plr = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(player.Parent)
if plr and plr:WaitForChild("leaderstats").Items.Value == 5 then
#3

Thank you for your help, it works now!