Issue with giving player chat tag when they join if a bool value inside of them is set to true

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#1

For some reason the player doesn’t get the chat tag, the datastore works for the bool value, it’s set to true when I look in the character model. Here’s the script in server script service:

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)

if player.BackpackItems.EpicChatTag.Value == true then

local speaker = chatService:GetSpeaker(player.Name)

speaker:SetExtraData("Tags", {{TagText = "EPIC"}})

speaker:SetExtraData("ChatColor", Color3.fromRGB(0,255,255))

end

end)```
#2

This is probably because “BackpackItems” and/or “EpicChatTag” does not exist yet. I would add a :WaitForChild().

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)

if player:WaitForChild("BackpackItems"):WaitForChild("EpicChatTag").Value == true then

local speaker = chatService:GetSpeaker(player.Name)

speaker:SetExtraData("Tags", {{TagText = "EPIC"}})

speaker:SetExtraData("ChatColor", Color3.fromRGB(0,255,255))

end

end)
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#3

Wouldn’t it just error if BackpackItems didn’t exist yet?

I would first suggest OP to try printing “speaker”, maybe it’s not getting the correct speaker for whatever reason.

#4

In the same way, if that were true it would show errors in the console about “speaker” being nil.

#5

Right, makes sense. I’m assuming the “EpicChatTag” bool is saved in a datastore, so it could also just be false when the check happens, and only after that does the data load in.

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#6

He might have to add it into the script he has to load the data. Or, because I have experienced this in the past, he should move the chatSpeaker variable into the PlayerAdded function because it has a :WaitForChild() in it so it doesn’t delay the PlayerAdded function making it not run when the first player joins.

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