Issue with event not firing

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Hi! I’m trying to make an animated NPC walk up to you when you enter a certain hitbox/area and then, it will fire an event showing a GUI. But, I’m getting an error saying “FireClient: player argument must be a Player object”.
Neither the event nor the NPC is moving to the area it’s supposed to. I’ve looked all over the dev forum and I can’t find a solution.

SERVERSCRIPT in NPC

local NPC = script.Parent

local part1= game.workspace.MaxPathFindWalk

local runanimation = NPC.Run
local idleanimation = NPC.Idle

local runanimationtrack = NPC.Humanoid:LoadAnimation(runanimation)
local idleanimationtrack = NPC.Humanoid:LoadAnimation(idleanimation)
local debounce = false
script.Parent.LockOn.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
	if not debounce then
		debounce = true
		local plr = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent)
		game.ReplicatedStorage.TrainerEvents.TrainerBattleTrigger:FireClient(plr)

	--Walk to Targetted Part
	idleanimationtrack:Play()
	NPC.Humanoid:MoveTo(game.Workspace.MaxPathFindWalk.Position)
	idleanimationtrack:Stop()
	runanimationtrack:Play()
	NPC.Humanoid.MoveToFinished:Wait()
		idleanimationtrack:Play()
		
	end
	wait(5)
	debounce = false
end)
--Finish walking to targetted part

Localscript in StarterGUI

local plr = game.Players.LocalPlayer
game.ReplicatedStorage.TrainerEvents.TrainerBattleTrigger.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(plr)
	print("Trainer battle triggered by"..plr.name.."Battle UI popup fired")
end)
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Is the NPC supposed to touch the part?

3

No, it’s standing right before the part.image

4

Does the error throw when the player touches the part?

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5

Yeah, right after you touch it, it errors out.

6

That’s weird. Could you try this and see what it prints?

debounce = true
print(hit.Parent, game:GetService("Players"):GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent)) --Right here
local plr = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent)
game.ReplicatedStorage.TrainerEvents.TrainerBattleTrigger:FireClient(plr)
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It printed “TopHat” and then errored right after.

8

Ok I think the hit is not a direct child of a Player character. Could you show the explorer when you are testing the game?

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9

Sure, But when I joined the game and pressed it now, it move to the correct position but it’s still giving me errors?image

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10

I was referring to your character.

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11

Ok, so apparently, when you go in and out of the area, it runs?

12

Oh, whoops. Here it is.

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14

Wait I posted this on the wrong post LOL my bad

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I think the problem is in the :GetPlayerFromCharacter. :GetPlayerFromCharacter function returns the Player associated with the given Player.Character , or nil. However, the plr that u r trying to pass in the :FireClient is not a player.

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