RemoteEvent parameters are 'nil' when called in script

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I am trying to make a player change their character appearance to a ball but I am getting a weird error.

local dontrepeat

script.Parent.RemoteEvent.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(plr, rig)

	local char = plr.Character
	print(rig)

--next line has the error
	if not game.Workspace:FindFirstChild(rig).HumanoidRootPart:FindFirstChild("DontRepeat") then
		plr.Character = workspace:FindFirstChild(rig)
	end
	wait()

	if not workspace:FindFirstChild(rig).HumanoidRootPart:FindFirstChild("DontRepeat") then 
		dontrepeat = Instance.new("Attachment")
		dontrepeat.Name = "DontRepeat"
		dontrepeat.Parent = workspace:FindFirstChild(rig).HumanoidRootPart
		wait()
		char:Destroy()
	end
end)

I also fired the remote event from a local script using this:

wait(3)
local plr = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local camera = workspace.CurrentCamera
local rig = game.ReplicatedStorage.ballData:FindFirstChild(plr:WaitForChild("playerData"):WaitForChild("EquippedBall").Value).StarterCharacter:Clone()
rig.Parent = workspace
rig.Name = plr.Name.."Rig"
camera.CameraType = "Follow"
camera.CameraSubject = rig.HumanoidRootPart
script.Parent.RemoteEvent:FireServer(rig.Name)

The error I kepp getting is

Players.Zer0Cactus.PlayerGui.CharacterMorph.Script:13: attempt to index nil with 'HumanoidRootPart'  -  Server - Script:13

I feel like this shouldn’t be happening so is there something I am missing? Thank you!

2

When you clone() something from ReplicatedStorage from a client script, that clone will only ever exist locally, on that client. It will not replicate to the server. You have to clone the “rig” on the server, and then make the appropriate script connections on the client, not the other way around.

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