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

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#1

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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#2

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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#3

Already tried that, it finds the folder but then can’t find the part.

#4

Did you use WaitForChild in the part as well?

#5

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

#6

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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#7

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?

#8

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

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

if campart then
–code
end

#9

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

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#10

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

#11

You can see the explorer there.

#12

My bad. Have you tried FindFirstChild()?

#13

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

#14

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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#15

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

#16

Is the camerapart’s archivable property set to true?

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#17

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

#18 
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.

#19

Tried both ways, neither of them work.

#20

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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