Player required for LoadCharcter, even though character has been found before hand

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#1

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for _, player in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
	if player then
        player:LoadCharacter() -- ERRORS HERE!!
    end
end
#2

You haven’t checked for the character, just the player.

#3

LoadCharacter doesn’t require the character to be loaded in tho

#4

that’s a very good point

I can’t see any reason why this code would be erroring. Either way you need to wrap this in a pcall for when players leave part way through the loop running.

#5

All I can imagine this meaning is that the player has to be a descendant of the DataModel, though I don’t know why you would receive the player before that condition is true. Either way, try printing the parent of the player object right before calling LoadCharacter.

If that isn’t the issue, then I’d personally say the error description offers no information which would help any developer fix the bug.

#6

LoadCharacter yields, so it’s possible that players leave while e.g. the 1st player’s character is being loaded.
You can check if player.Parent then .... end to check if the player is still in the game. (player on its own won’t ever be nil as GetPlayers returns an array of players that are in the game at the time you call that function.)

Alternatively, load all characters in parallel (avoid spawn here, it waits with resume-ing the spawned thread one tick, so the player could have left in that case…):

for _, player in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
    coroutine.wrap(function()
        player:LoadCharacter()
    end)()
end
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#7

Put it in a pcall() , spawn() , and while loop check