Players.benraupp123.PlayerScripts.Placemaker:10: attempt to index nil with 'RightHand' pls help

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#1

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#2

It means that the RightHand doesn’t exist or the character doesn’t exist.

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#3

How do i fix this then?

30tehcharacters

#4

You need to wait for the character to be loaded, you can do this:

local character = localPlayer.Character or localPlayer.CharacterAdded:Wait()

Not sure if this will fire when you join the first time.

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#6

Says righthand is not a valid member of model

#7

It is because only R15 has a right hand, R6 doesn’t.

#8

It means there is no child in the Character’s model named RightHand.

Edit: What @Lyyrezism also said.

#9

Im using r15?

30tehcharacterse

#11

Hey dude, character loads have some mysterious behavior behind them. When the characterAdded event fires, you’ll notice that it doesn’t have any children. So you’ll want to put in a wait for whatever objects you’re accessing from a character object.

  • Note: This behavior only happens client side, while client waits for character’s children to be replicated.

This behavior can be tested with this code on client 
local player=game:GetService('Players').LocalPlayer
player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function (char)
	local charChildren=char:GetChildren()
	
	-- Immediately after connection fires, print all children names of character
	print('Immediately after character created')
	for i,v in pairs(charChildren) do
		print(v.Name)
	end
	
	-- Stop for a minute
	wait(1)
	print('After 1 Second: \n ')
	
	-- Try again
	charChildren=char:GetChildren()
	for i,v in pairs(charChildren) do
		print(v.Name)
	end
end)

For future reference as well, whenever you have a ‘attempt to index nil with “so and so”’, it always means the parent of “so and so” is not defined.

#12

This is just a mess.
The code i provided worked in the past i don’t know whats wrong.

#13 
repeat wait() until script.Parent:IsA("Model")

local mouse = game.Players.LocalPlayer:GetMouse()

local object = Instance.new("Attachment",script.Parent:WaitForChild("RightHand"))

object.Name = "Grappleattach"

object.Position = script.Parent:WaitForChild("RightHand").Position

Put this into a localscript inside StarterCharacterScripts

#14

If you’re putting this into a tool, tell me so I can write a version to work with a tool script.

#15

Here try this:

local Players = game:GetService("Players")

local localPlayer = Players.localPlayer
local localChar = localPlayer.Character or localPlayer.CharacterAdded:wait() -- Wait for character
game:GetService('RunService').RenderStepped:wait() -- Wait for character to fully replicate to client

local mouse = localPlayer:getMouse()

local object = Instance.new("Attachment")
object.Name="Grappleattach"
object.Parent=localChar.RightHand
object.Archivable=true
object.Position=localChar.RightHand.Position
#16

Works great!!!
30tehcharacters

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#17

That also works when I tested it.

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