My script can't find a part and I'm not sure why

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I’ve got this line of code in a local script inside a GUI in StarterGui.

local campart = workspace.CARSPAWNINGPREVIEW.camerapart

However, for some reason it can not find the camerapart and keeps returning with

  22:13:53.918  camerapart is not a valid member of Folder "Workspace.CARSPAWNINGPREVIEW"  -  Client - sc:4
  22:13:53.918  Stack Begin  -  Studio
  22:13:53.919  Script 'Players.socixlizr.PlayerGui.CarSpawning.sc', Line 4  -  Studio - sc:4

I’ve tried a waitforchild, and ensured it is also where I am calling it to be.

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You should use Instance | Roblox Creator Documentation to wait for the instance to exist in case the instance does not exist yet when called.

local campart = workspace:WaitForChild("CARSPAWNINGPREVIEW"):WaitForChild("camerapart")
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Already tried that, it finds the folder but then can’t find the part.

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Did you use WaitForChild in the part as well?

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I done exactly what you done then it infinite yielded at finding camerapart.

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Can you shove this in your script and tell us what it prints?

for _,v in pairs(Workspace.CARSPAWNINGPREVIEW:GetChildren()) do
    print(v)
end
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Are you sure the part exists while the simulation runs? also are you sure it’s exactly named “camerapart” without any hidden characters like a space?

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use FindFirstChild to return if the script found the object or not

local campart = workspace.CARSPAWNINGPREVIEW:FindFirstChild(“camerapart”)

if campart then
–code
end

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For some reason it doesn’t find the parts but only finds the folders and models.

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Make sure you haven’t named a Folder or something the same as the part.

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You can see the explorer there.

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My bad. Have you tried FindFirstChild()?

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I tried a WFC and it didn’t do anything.

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Its quite obvious then that to the script, those parts dont exist. Are these parts being interfered with any other scripts running on the client?

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Nope, the parts are only called for in that script, and the parts are there in game as you can clearly see.

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Is the camerapart’s archivable property set to true?

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Affirm. Yes it is, and it is anchored and collidable.

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local camerapart = workspace.CARSPAWNINGPREVIEW.camerapart or workspace:WaitForChild("CARSPAWNINGPREVIEW"):FindFirstChild("camerapart")

Try this. I’m just thinking of possible ways and it probably won’t work but it’s worth a try.

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Tried both ways, neither of them work.

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Interesting, after looking more closely I noticed that it prints the names of ‘Model’ and ‘PREVIEW’ which are then hyphenated with Client trailing after despite have a green line next to them, indicating it is being outputted by the server.

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