I still don't understand what is ":GetPlayerFromCharacter" function mean?

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#1

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    I want to understand what does the function “GetPlayerFromCharacter” means?

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#2

The key concept here is knowing that “Player” and “Character” are two separate things.

Player you can think of as being your account itself.
Character you can think of as being the visual representation of you in game (Your avatar)

GetPlayerFromCharacter will goto the visual representation in game and then say “Who is in charge of this guy?” The person in charge of them is the Player.

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#3

It simply attempts to get a player from a character model. The function returns nil if it could not get a player from the provided instance.

This is especially useful when listening for the Touched event; which fires when a part is touched by another. In many cases you might want a player to touch this, maybe because it gives them a power up or something.

-- Example script inside a part
local part = script.Parent
local Players = game:GetService("Players")

part.Touched:Connect(function(other_part)
    local player = Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(other_part.Parent)

    if player then -- without this check we would be attempting to index nil!
        player.Character.Humanoid.WalkSpeed = 32
    end
end)
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#4

Love this amazing I can visualise what you just said in m own head

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