How can I fix this

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#1

Please don’t get mad at me for creating a similar topic, but I had an issue with a script a while back that got solved, but I discovered another issue which I have been trying to solve for god knows how long. And I am dying to get this issue fixed, so I can move on.

Here it is:

local chunks = {}

local function chunkExists(chunkX, chunkZ, chunkY) -- Check's if a chunk exists
        spawn(function()
    local isNil = false

  -- if not chunks[chunkX] then
  --    chunks[chunkX] = {}

  -- end
   if not chunks[chunkX] then
       chunks[chunkX] = {}
     --  return false
   end
   if not chunks[chunkX][chunkZ] then
       chunks[chunkX][chunkZ] = {}
     --  return false
   end
   if not chunks[chunkX][chunkZ][chunkY] then
       chunks[chunkX][chunkZ][chunkY] = {}
       --return false
   end

  -- if isNil == false then
       return chunks[chunkX][chunkZ][chunkY]
  -- end
    end)
end

local function roundTo(number, roundToNumber) -- Give it a value and it'll round it to the target's multiple, e.g 12 goes to 8, 17 goes to 16.
    return number - (number % roundToNumber)
end

local function CheckPos(X, Z, Y)
    spawn(function() -- We use spawn function because if we don't then every time this function is called then the (all) the client(s) that are running the game will freeze
        local RoundedX = roundTo(X, 32)
        local RoundedZ = roundTo(Z, 32)
        local RoundedY = roundTo(Y, 32)

        --print(" X: "..RoundedX.." Z: "..RoundedZ.." Y: "..RoundedY)
        --print(RoundedZ)
        --print(RoundedY)

        for x = -32, 32 do
            for z = -32, 32 do
                for y = -32, 32 do
                    local cx = RoundedX + x
                    local cz = RoundedZ + z
                    local cy = RoundedY + y

                    if not chunkExists(cx, cz, cy) == true then
                        --print("x: "..cx.." z: "..cz.." y: "..cy)
                        chunks[cx][cz][cy] = true -- This is where I am getting the error at :/

                    end
                end
            end
        end
    end)
end

spawn(function()
    while true do
        wait(1)
        --print("hh")
        for i, v in pairs(game:GetService("Players"):GetChildren()) do
            local C = nil
            local HRP = nil

            pcall(function()
                if v.Character then
                    C = v.Character
                else
                    C = nil
                end
            end)

            if C ~= nil then
                pcall(function()
                    if C:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart") then
                        HRP = C:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart")

                    else
                        HRP = nil
                    end
                end)
            end

            if HRP ~= nil then
                CheckPos(HRP.Position.X, HRP.Position.Z, HRP.Position.Y)
            end
        end
    end
end)

The error is at line 53 “Attempt to index a nil value”. There is nothing nil there. I am trying to set a value that is ‘nil’ to true. The error might lie in the “ChunkExists” function, but I am not entirely sure.

This is where the error is at:

chunks[cx][cz][cy] = true -- This is where I am getting the error at >:(

I am not indexing a ‘nil’ value. chunks which is a table and is not nil, cx, cz, cy, are not nil either. What can I do to fix this?

For those who are wondering what I am trying to accomplish, is I created a 3D Perlin noise script a while back, and I want to use it in a game, where terrain generates based of the player’s position, while I was in the middle of writing this script I found this error, including another one (which got fixed in a different topic).

#2

Without reading the entire code, I can tell you that your chunkExists function looks a bit strange: it always returns nil. It looks like you want to use the return value of that function on line 51 (if not chunkExists(cx, cz, cy) == true then), but you wrap the function in a spawn, so the function always returns nil (the function chunkExists never uses the return value of the function inside the spawn). I don’t know if this is the cause of your bug but I hope that helps.

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#3

AHA! Let me see if wrapping the “Chunk Exists” function with a spawn as well fixes things up. Or I will remove the spawns entirely. The reason I have a spawn in there is because I had an issue a while back where the “CheckPos” function would cause my game to freeze every time it would run.

#4

Looks like removing the spawns fixed the issue. But I want to know if there is anything that I scripted wrong in the “Chunk Exists” function. Also the game DOES freeze any time the “CheckPos” function runs… so gotta fix that up to.