Is there any way to get the character from a remote event?

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#1

Hello, I’ve been trying at this for a while but it doesn’t seem to work. I have a teleportation code that sends a player to a place, and then when a player joins that player it is supposed to send them to a certain side of a track. But, when I try to get the character from the remote event function param (plr.Character or plr.CharacterAdded:Wait()), when it is called it always returns:

Attempted to index x with nil

How can I fix this?

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#2

Why would you need to send the player’s character from the remote event? If I were in this case, I would just do:

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
    plr.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(char)
    end)
end)
#3

well, i have a specific case that I need the char in the server script

local script:

local TeleportService = game:GetService("TeleportService")
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local player = Players.LocalPlayer
local char = player.Character

local playersInGame = TeleportService:GetLocalPlayerTeleportData()

if playersInGame then
    if playersInGame[1] == player.Name then
        game.ReplicatedStorage.PlayerPlacement:FireServer("Left", char)
    elseif playersInGame[2] == player.Name then
        game.ReplicatedStorage.PlayerPlacement:FireServer("Right", char)
    end
end

server script:

local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")


ReplicatedStorage.PlayerPlacement.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(plr, side, char)
	if side == "Left" then
		local HRP = char:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")
		
		HRP.Position = Vector3.new(31.65, 10, 358.571)
	elseif side == "Right" then
		local HRP = char:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")
		
		HRP.Position = Vector3.new(2.493, 10, 358.571)		
	end
end)

in my case i have teleport data from a different place that is used to position the player to a certain side of the map. I don’t know what I should do after here cause teh script doesn’t position.

#4

You are trying to access the localplayer’s character on the server.
You can access the character by doing plr.Character on the server.

#5

already have tried this and it just says that it is a nil value.

#6

local Character = plr.Character or plr.CharacterAdded:Wait()

#7

I’ll test this and see what happens.

#8

alright the output says this

ServerScriptService.PlayerPlacement:7: attempt to index nil with ‘WaitForChild’
ServerScriptService.PlayerPlacement:11: attempt to index nil with ‘WaitForChild’

here is the code:

local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")


ReplicatedStorage.PlayerPlacement.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(plr, side)
	local char = plr.Character or plr.CharacterAdded:Wait()
	if side == "Left" then
		local HRP = char:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")
		
		HRP.Position = Vector3.new(31.65, 10, 358.571)
	elseif side == "Right" then
		local HRP = char:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")
		
		HRP.Position = Vector3.new(2.493, 10, 358.571)		
	end
end)
#9

You don’t need WaitForChild, try replacing it with a FindFirstChild.

#10

That’s not the problem here. The char variable is nil.

#11

You dont have to send the character argument, in fact, thats a terrible idea, just get the player it returns.

Server:

local RemoteEvent = YourRemoteEvent

RemoteEvent.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(Player, WowArg)

local Character = Player.Character
local RootPart = Character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")
RootPart.CFrame = CFrame.new(0,0,0) -- now you can mess with the character
Player.DoSomethingHere -- you can also mess with the player.
print(Character, WowArg)

end)

Client:

local RemoteEvent = YourRemoteEvent

RemoteEvent:FireServer("Wow")
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#12

I tested the code now, and only the first player in the game gets teleported, but not the second one.

#13

this should work for both players, right?

local TeleportService = game:GetService("TeleportService")
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local player = Players.LocalPlayer

local playersInGame = TeleportService:GetLocalPlayerTeleportData()

if playersInGame then
	if playersInGame[1] == player.Name then
		game.ReplicatedStorage.PlayerPlacement:FireServer("Left")
	elseif playersInGame[2] == player.Name then
		game.ReplicatedStorage.PlayerPlacement:FireServer("Right")	
	end
end
#14

Just loop through the players, no? Then teleport them.

#15

@VG3O_J, Look at the example script I gave above, no need to send the character over the remote event, just grab it directly.

#16

works, thank you so much for helping me

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