Attempt to nidex nil with humanoidrootpart on a playerRemoving function

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Hi, this is my first post on the dev forum so I’m sorry if this is a little unclear. I am trying to achieve a position-saving system that saves your current position every time you leave the game.

My current issue is that although it works, sometimes when I leave the game I get the error, attempt to index nil with HumanoidRootPart. I suspect this error is because I have the code run on a playerRemoving function and I suspect the character and Humanoid root part has already left the game by the time I ran the code.

Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(player)
	local profile = Profiles[player]
	if profile.Data.CurrentlyLoaded == false then
		return
	elseif profile.Data.CurrentlyLoaded == true then
		print(player.Character.HumanoidRootPart.Position)
		profile.Data.Cframe.Position.x = player.Character.HumanoidRootPart.Position.x
		profile.Data.Cframe.Position.y = player.Character.HumanoidRootPart.Position.y
		profile.Data.Cframe.Position.z = player.Character.HumanoidRootPart.Position.z
		profile.Data.CurrentlyLoaded = false
		print(profile.Data.Cframe.Position)
	end

	if profile ~= nil then
		profile:Release()
	end
end)

I have searched far and wide and couldn’t find anyone with the same problem as me. Please help me out. Thank you! Some people were telling me that it is a vector 3 issue but I assure you it is not as it has worked before and it still works now but it is not 100% reliable as I randomly receive this error. the profile.data.cframe uses the profile service data module for data stores. If you don’t know what that is just imagine that I’m saving the humanoidrootpart position to a global variable that saves after you leave the game.

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It might be that by the time the PlayerRemoving event fires, the Character has already been removed from the game, so it fails. You try linking it to the CharacterRemoving event instead.

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will that fire everytime the character dies?

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ok so i tried that and now im getting the error, "attempt to index nil with data

player.CharacterRemoving:Connect(function (player)
				local profile = Profiles[player]
				if profile.Data.CurrentlyLoaded == false then
					return
				elseif profile.Data.CurrentlyLoaded == true then
					print(player.Character.HumanoidRootPart.Position)
					profile.Data.Cframe.Position.x = player.Character.HumanoidRootPart.Position.x
					profile.Data.Cframe.Position.y = player.Character.HumanoidRootPart.Position.y
					profile.Data.Cframe.Position.z = player.Character.HumanoidRootPart.Position.z
					profile.Data.CurrentlyLoaded = false
					print(profile.Data.Cframe.Position)
				end
			end)
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Hello, I’ve fixed your issue along with optimizing it a bit. Hope this helps.

Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(player)
    local profile = Profiles[player]

    if profile and profile.Data.CurrentlyLoaded and player.Character then
        local HumanoidRootPart = player.Character:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart")
        
        if HumanoidRootPart then
            local position = HumanoidRootPart.Position
            print(position)
            profile.Data.Cframe.Position = position
            profile.Data.CurrentlyLoaded = false
            print(profile.Data.Cframe.Position)
        end

        profile:Release()
    end
end)
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uh all this did was prevent an error but i still smoetimes dont get position printed meaning that it still isnt working

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Another option might be to store the characters HRP position at all times during the game.

You can use a Vector3Value to store the info.

That way you can access it even after they leave, then delete it when you’re ready.

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Sorry, But if you’re still not getting the Position to be printed, then the script can’t find either the Profile or Profile.Data.CurrentlyLoaded, or Player.Character. Which means the issue is somewhere else in the game. Most likely the ‘Profiles[player]’.

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apparently, the players’ character is nil. This is the most confusing yet because the player is already loaded in I know that for a fact so I have no idea why it wouldn’t be loaded in.

	player.Character.HumanoidRootPart.Position = Vector3.new(dataStore.Value.Cframe.Position.x, dataStore.Value.Cframe.Position.y, dataStore.Value.Cframe.Position.z)

This is the line of code that is erroring. The player variable is getting passed from the player-added event.

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Hey, I managed to fix it by putting a character-removing event in a playeradded function.

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