Get Player **object** from Player username

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I know there’s a function that allow’s you to get a players character based of there username.

Example

local Player = Players:GetPlayer('HeWo30')
Player.Character -- // etc etc etc...

But I can’t find it anywhere.

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To get the character, you can simply do:

local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local Player = Players:FindFirstChild("Username")

if (Player ~= nil) then
    local Character = Player.Character 
end

This will only work if the player is in the game though

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GetPlayerFromCharacter() or game:GetService(“Players”):FindFirstChild(Username)

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4

???
GetPlayerFromCharacter()
This require’s the character.

5

Yeah I know, I messed up. but is the second suggestion the one you’re looking for?

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I was planning on having something like

-- // Get player object from username
local Player = functionHere('Username')
Player.UserId
Player.Name
Player.DisplayName
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function FunctionHere(Name): Player?
   if Players:FindFirstChild(Name) then
      return Players:FindFirstChild(Name) -- will return player object.
   end
end

Like this?

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This is highly redundant when you can just do local player = Players:FindFirstChild(username)

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