FindFirstChild appears to be having a stroke

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#1

Hello. I have an airplane game, and I had the entire system in a local script. Unfortunately, it was only client side, so only Player 1 could see that they shoot down Player 2.
I copy pasted the entire code into a SCRIPT not a LOCAL SCRIPT. However, it is being difficult. Here is a screenshot.

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I have no errors, but I get an outpouring of “Steel Inquisitor is searching for the script.”
Please help!!!

#2

I would remove the repeat function, and use WaitForChild instead.

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#3

Thank you! I will try that. 3030303030

#4

No luck. I checked the dev console and there is nothing but it is just plain refusing to work.

#5

What is happening it is failed to find the child, then it started the loop. It never tried again.

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#6

Oh, okay. So what I should do is put findfirstchild in the loop?

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#7

Still not working. I still receive a barrage of “Steel Inquisitor is searching for the script.”

#8

Can you paste the script here?

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#9

Okay.
Version #1
(Repeat Loop.)

local plane = script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent
local scripty = plane:FindFirstChild("Kar")
repeat
	local scripty = plane:FindFirstChild("Kar")
	wait()
	print("Steel Inquisitor is searching for the script.")
	
until scripty
scripty.Disabled = false

Filled with Steel Inquisitor
Version #2
WaitForChild

local plane = script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent
local scripty = plane:WaitForChild("Kar")
scripty.Disabled = false

There is an infinite yield on this.

#10

Version #2 should work fine. If you do want to have the repeat loop with the printing. Then maybe something like this:

local plane = script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent
if not plane:FindFirstChild("Kar") then
    repeat
	    wait()
	     print("Steel Inquisitor is searching for the script.")
    until plane:FindFirstChild("Kar")
end
scripty.Disabled = false
#11

“Kar” appears to be a script, not local script. A local script won’t be able to find it. A regular script should. Have you checked, while the game is playing, that Kar is still visible on the server?

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#12

Remove all the parents and make it just one.

local plane = script.Parent
local scripty = plane:WaitForChild("Kar")
scripty.Disabled = false
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#13

This is part of the issue as well, I assume.

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#14

I changed every local script to a regular script so it could find oher scripts. However I am a bit confused. Can LocalScripts only find other LocalScripts?
And I have an error. Infinite Yield possible on "Wait for child “Kar”

#15

Current Script:

local plane = script.Parent
local scripty = plane:WaitForChild("Kar")
scripty.Disabled = false
#16

One more thing. Printing "Steel Inquisitor is searching for the script." so many times every wait() is bad. (Also use task.wait()) Maybe you should make a function and get the function to just wait before printing. Maybe using a debounce.

local Debounce = false
function PrintSearching()
      if Debounce == false then
         Debounce = true
         print("Steel Inquisitor is searching for the script.")
         ask.wait(1)
         Debounce = false
    end
end

then use a coroutine and wrap the function so it doesn’t stop the repeat.

repeat
    task.wait()
    coroutine.wrap(PrintSearching)()
end
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#17

Wait what?!?!?! Sorry Im new. Do I put the repeat after the function? Are you sure to put an end after repeat? I though it was until.

#18

Sigh…
everyone left me lol. 303030

#19 
local plane = script.Parent

local scripty = plane:WaitForChild("Kar")

scripty.Disabled = false

I used this script and it worked just fine, both of the scripts were normal scripts, not local.

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#20

Thank you! It worked!!!