game.Players:FindFirstChild() returning nil

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Hey! I’m trying to get a player from game.Players using their names, but it keeps returning “nil”. Other thing to know is I’m trying to FireClient using their name through a server script.

I tried looking through the dev forum and Reddit and I can’t seem to find any solutions to my problem.

Here’s an example of my code:

local giveCashEvent = game:GetService(“ReplicatedStorage”):WaitForChild(“GiveCash”)

local playerName = script.Parent.Owner.Value

local getPlayer = game.Players:FindFirstChild(playerName)

local Credits = math.Random(10,15)

giveCashEvent:FireClient(getPlayer, Credits)
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Not familiar with “Owner” Looks like something you set up.

If you have the character, use this to get player:

Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter (roblox.com)

If it is a localscript, use this:

Players.LocalPlayer (roblox.com)

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What does playerName return then?
print(playerName)

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You’re using curly-quotes in that first line.

local giveCashEvent = game:GetService(“ReplicatedStorage”):WaitForChild(“GiveCash”)
-- should be
local giveCashEvent = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage"):WaitForChild("GiveCash")
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i’ve tried your script with by changing getPlayer/ Credits

local giveCashEvent = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage"):WaitForChild("GiveCash")

local playerName = script.Parent.Owner.Value

local getPlayer = game.Players:WaitForChild(playerName, 10)

local Credits = math.random(10,15)

giveCashEvent:FireClient(getPlayer,Credits)

and it works!
i used print() to test if it really works to the client when it was firedimage

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Yea, sorry I forgot to mention, “Owner” is a string variable. I don’t have the character, only the name and I am using a server script.

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playerName returns the player’s name, but getPlayer returns nil.

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I tried using your script, but it still returns the same thing as I tried with my code which is,

nil
FireClient: player argument must be a Player object

Also I’m still not an expert with coding at all, so what does the “10” do in getPlayer (playerName, 10)?

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10 there is 10s timeout where if its been 10s and it doesn’t appear then the script will stop waiting for the child. studio take time to load all gui/ events and others so i put that there.

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yea i use string value for it. not string variable cause if it is it will just be

local Owner = "Someone"

local playerName = Owner
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did you copy/ paste my code there? if not maybe check your capitalization and if it still doesn’t work can you show me the full error so i would know which line it is

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Yea I copied and paste your code, still didn’t work. However I did already found a work around to my problem, so my script is working now, just a different way. Thank you for trying to help though, I really appreciate it!

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No problem! glad i could help, even though not much!

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This isn’t a Solution per say …
I believe what you was looking for was:

local getPlayer = game.Players:WaitForChild(playerName.Name)