Player Colors script keeps breaking

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Hello! I am trying to achieve a working script where it where it will assign colors to the players character (which is a starter character) based on the colors of the players avatar.

It is a ServerScript in ServerScriptService and works as follows:

local Players = game:GetService('Players')



while true do
	
	for _, Player in pairs(Players:GetPlayers()) do
		local Character = Player.Character
		
		if Character then
			
	
			if Character:FindFirstChild('Humanoid') then
				if Player:GetAttribute('DoneColours') == nil then
					if Player.UserId ~= nil and Player.UserId > 0 then
					if Players:GetCharacterAppearanceInfoAsync(Player.UserId).bodyColors ~= nil then
					local charinfo = Players:GetCharacterAppearanceInfoAsync(Player.UserId).bodyColors
					Player:SetAttribute('DoneColours', true)
					for n,v in pairs(charinfo) do
						if n == 'leftArmColorId' then
							Character['Left Arm'].BrickColor = BrickColor.new(v)
						elseif n == 'torsoColorId' then
							Character['Torso'].BrickColor = BrickColor.new(v)
						elseif n == 'rightArmColorId' then
							Character['Right Arm'].BrickColor = BrickColor.new(v)
						elseif n == 'headColorId' then
							Character['Head'].BrickColor = BrickColor.new(v)
						elseif n == 'leftLegColorId' then
							Character['Left Leg'].BrickColor = BrickColor.new(v)
						elseif n == 'rightLegColorId' then
							Character['Right Leg'].BrickColor = BrickColor.new(v)
						else
					end
					end
				end
				end
			end

			end


		end

	end

	task.wait(1)
end

However at random times when I join a running server, all players will have gray characters. There are no errors thrown at all, so I do not know what is being done that causes it to stop working. It will work for a while but it seems eventually it will just stop assigning player colors.

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Is there anywhere it is possible being hung indefinitely, or isnt written correctly which is causing that issue?

Thanks!

2

The issue could be that you Async requests are causing an error. You should try to wrap them in a pcall like so:

local success, characterAppearanceInfo = pcall(Players.GetCharacterAppearanceInfoAsync, Players, Player.UserId)
if success and characterAppearanceInfo then
    local success, charInfo = pcall(Players.GetCharacterAppearanceInfoAsync, Players, Player.UserId)
    if success and charInfo then
        -- your other code
    end
end
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3

So like this:

local Players = game:GetService('Players')

while true do
	task.wait(1)
for _, Player in pairs(Players:GetPlayers()) do
	local Character = Player.Character


local success, characterAppearanceInfo = pcall(Players.GetCharacterAppearanceInfoAsync, Players, Player.UserId)
if success and characterAppearanceInfo then
	local success, charInfo = pcall(Players.GetCharacterAppearanceInfoAsync, Players, Player.UserId)
	if success and charInfo then

		if Character then


			if Character:FindFirstChild('Humanoid') then
				if Player:GetAttribute('DoneColours') == nil then
					if Player.UserId ~= nil and Player.UserId > 0 then
						if Players:GetCharacterAppearanceInfoAsync(Player.UserId).bodyColors ~= nil then
							local charinfo = Players:GetCharacterAppearanceInfoAsync(Player.UserId).bodyColors
							Player:SetAttribute('DoneColours', true)
							for n,v in pairs(charinfo) do
								if n == 'leftArmColorId' then
									Character['Left Arm'].BrickColor = BrickColor.new(v)
								elseif n == 'torsoColorId' then
									Character['Torso'].BrickColor = BrickColor.new(v)
								elseif n == 'rightArmColorId' then
									Character['Right Arm'].BrickColor = BrickColor.new(v)
								elseif n == 'headColorId' then
									Character['Head'].BrickColor = BrickColor.new(v)
								elseif n == 'leftLegColorId' then
									Character['Left Leg'].BrickColor = BrickColor.new(v)
								elseif n == 'rightLegColorId' then
									Character['Right Leg'].BrickColor = BrickColor.new(v)
								else
									end
								end
							end
						end
					end
				end
			end
		end
	end
	end
	end
4

Yes, you should always wrap Async calls in a pcall, they can give an error at anytime.

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5

Well it didnt solve the issue…