I have a simple radio system setup; a player stands near a part, when they chat it broadcasts their chat to other radio parts. This works fine for 20~ minutes, until it breaks suddenly.
function listenForChat(char, relay)
local db = false
local player = Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(char)
>line 28 local connection
connection = player.Chatted:Connect(function(msg)
if not db then db = true
print(msg)
connectRelays(player, msg)
wait(.6)
pInRange = false
db = false
connection:Disconnect()
end
end
)
end
I honestly can’t figure out why this happens. I don’t know if player is nil or chatted is nil or what is going on
Index means ‘to read from’
The error means that you are trying to get an event, property, or child of something that the script can’t find. It just doesn’t EXIST in the reference you provided.
In short, this means that “player” is nil.
(At first I couldn’t figure out why this was happening either but then I saw that you disconnect it as well, meaning that it would have to be reconnected later on)
The problem is that you don’t account for when the player leaves the game. My advice would be to check if the player exists BEFORE connecting a function to the .Chatted event.
Add between line 27 and 28,
if not player==nil then.
In my opinion you are calling the player incorrectly because you are defining it’s character instead of calling it from ‘Players’ service. This might be a fix:
local player = game:GetService("Players"):FindFirstChild(Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(char).Name)
GetPlayerFromCharacter returns the player instance, so there is no need to do all that.
Also, he said that it works fine for about 20 mins, which must be when the player leaves the game.
Another fact is that the :GetPlayerFromCharacter API says that it returns nil if a player cannot be found, and the error says that nil is being indexed with .Chatted.
