Character is not a valid member of Player.PlayerObject, it's basic I just can't fix it for some reason?

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#1

I know this is a really simple problem but I’m pretty new to scripting but I’d like to fix this problem as I am getting this simple basic error that I know how to fix but I quite can’t:

“Character is not a valid member of ‘Player.ThoifeDev’”

I’ve fixed these types of errors with no problem, but the problem is I hate using normal scripts instead of local scripts.

The mission of this script is to let a certain user go in if their name is exclusively this, it’s post to be a bed-type thing for only devs in my game and if you touch it and you’re not a dev then it will teleport you.

Code:

script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
	
	if hit.Parent.Character and hit.Parent.Name == "ThoifeDev" then
		script.Parent.CanCollide = false
	else
		hit.Parent.Character.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame = CFrame.new(119.61, 0.5, -180.22)
	end
	
	end)

The main line that’s causing me problems is line 3, probably line 5 too.

I just need to find the character as I’ve done before but I’ve never tried this type of thing.

#2

hit.Parent is already the character model, so you can just do

if hit.Parent and hit.Parent.Name == "ThoifeDev" then
	script.Parent.CanCollide = false
else
	hit.Parent.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame = CFrame.new(119.61, 0.5, -180.22)
end
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#3

But then it proceeds to find the accessory, not the character, and I don’t really want errors in my output, so I need a

if char then

statement but also using the hit.Parent.Name thingy.

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#4

I revised your script a little, try this out

script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
	if hit.Parent:FindFirstChild('Humanoid') ~= nil then
        local player = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent)

        if player.Name == 'ThoifeDev' then
            script.Parent.CanCollide = false
        else
		    player.Character.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame = CFrame.new(119.61, 0.5, -180.22)
	    end
    end
end)
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#5

Question, where exactly is this script located?

Also @lluckvy player might be defined as nil if you’re not implementing any conditional checks with it & the script detects a hit.Parent that is not a valid Player Object

#6 
script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
    if hit.Parent and hit.Parent.Name == "ThoifeDev" then
        script.Parent.CanCollide = false
    else
        hit.Parent:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart").CFrame = CFrame.new(119.61, 0.5, -180.22)
    end
end)
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#7

It’s located parented to a part.

#8

Why you use ~= nil if you check already if the humanoid exist without it?

#9

It doesn’t really matter, it works both ways

if hit.Parent:FindFirstChild('Humanoid') ~= nil then

if hit.Parent:FindFirstChild('Humanoid') then
#10

Yes I know, I just wanted to know why you use ~= nil if you don’t need it. :slightly_smiling_face: