Player.Character returns 'nil' in LocalScript

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#1

Trying to make a cool little death screen for fun and whenever I try to reference the character, it returns a nil value.

I’m not sure why Player.Character keeps returning nil, and I’ve never had this issue before. Is it deprecated or something?

Any ideas on what could be wrong?
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#2

Player.Character would be nil because it no longer exists, hence it being nil. This happens if the player has not spawned yet/had died. I recommend listening to the Player.CharacterRemoving and the Player.CharacterAdded function to listen for these changes.

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#3

Player.Character can be nil if you use it early in the script

It becomes nil because the character is not loaded yet while the script is running

#4

Not sure if this would work since I can’t rlly test it bc im on mobile but

local character

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
     plr.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(char)
            character = char
     end)
end)
#5

Figured out what was wrong. Apparently even a LocalScript will run before the character is spawned in. (I thought this only applied to server-sided Scripts.)

Just had to wait out the spawning with repeat wait() until Player.Character and it was good.

#6

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