Attempt to index nil with 'WaitForChild'

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1

So, the output says “Attempt to index nil with ‘WaitForChild’”

waitforchild error
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But Its Only Shows error inside roblox
In Roblox Studio it doesnt show any error and everything is working fine
i already googling and search in roblox devforum for hours and i didnt get any help for this

2

You might want to attach source code of your script to let us easily figure out your problem, thanks.

3

Please provide us the code, there’s no way we can help you without your code. Thanks

4 
local loading
local chunkgenerated = 0
game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
    loading = player.PlayerGui:WaitForChild("Loading")
end)

Inside a for loop
chunkgenerated=chunkgenerated+1 loading:WaitForChild("Chunk").Text = "("..chunkgenerated.."/289) Chunk Generated"
the error come from “:WaitForChild(“Chunk”)”

5

Try doing this:

local loading
local chunkgenerated = 0
game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
    loading = player:WaitForChild("PlayerGui"):WaitForChild("Loading")
end)
6

Its says the same thing “Attempt to index nil with ‘WaitForChild’”

7

Can you show your explorer where the script is located?

8

its a script located in workspace

9

Try to put it in ServerScriptService or it could be some bug idk,but WaitForChild works fine

10

I assume you have placed for __ do loop out of the function that runs on PlayerAdded event.
You can fix it by placing loop inside function scope like below.

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
    local chunkgenerated = 0
    local loading
    loading = player.PlayerGui:WaitForChild("Loading")
    repeat
        chunkgenerated=chunkgenerated+1 loading:WaitForChild("Chunk").Text = ("chunkgenerated".."/289")
        wait()
    until chunkgenerated == 289
end)
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11

Thanks, the script is working right now