Im making a radio tool, which opens a gui from PlayerGui to place the audio ID.
However, the problem starts when getting the player, I used “GetPlayerFromCharacter” but it returns always nil (same with FindFirstAncestorWhichIsA)
And yes, the script is directly in the tool
So, do you know why this happens? here is the code im using, i used the print to check if i was actually referencing the player
local player = script:FindFirstAncestorWhichIsA("Player") or game:GetService"Players":GetPlayerFromCharacter(script.Parent.Parent)
script.Parent.Activated:Connect(function()
print(player)
end)
Also, if you’re expecting a player, I suggest you reference it inside the activated event, because the character is not the tool’s parent initially, activated is only called if you click while the tool is equipped (parented to the character at this point).
Since you are firing when activated, you could just change the player in there
script.Parent.Activated:Connect(function()
local player = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(script.Parent.Parent)
print(player)
end)
Or you could update the player when they equip the tool
Like this
local player = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(script.Parent.Parent)
script.Parent.Activated:Connect(function()
print(player)
end)
script.Parent.Equipped:Connect(function()
player = script.Parent.Parent
end)
The reason being that to actually get a player object as a parent, it would need to be running on the client. Server scripts can’t run anywhere where an ancestor could be a player object
