Seat occupant becomes nil

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1

So I created this seat occupant script and there is a problem with it. It basically will not execute the line of code (commented) because occupant is reset to nil. When a occupant leaves the seat, the occupant becomes nil, but how do you still retain the value of the previous occupant?

tool.Seat:GetPropertyChangedSignal("Occupant"):Connect(function()
	local occupant = tool.Seat.Occupant.Parent
	
	if tool.Seat.Occupant then
		for i, j in pairs(occupant:GetChildren()) do
			if j.ClassName == "Part" then
				j.Massless = true
				print("Ok massless")
			end
		end
	else --this is the problem because the statement alredy said that occupant = nil
		for i, j in pairs(occupant:GetChildren()) do --attempt to index nil, how would i retain the value of the previous occupant?
			if j.ClassName == "Part" then
				j.Massless = false
				print("This DOES NOT PRINT")
			end
		end
	end
end)
2

If you’re trying to retain the value of the previous occupant, then set a variable.
What are you trying to do? When the person sits down he becomes massless?

3

Right now the person sitting down causes mass bc all of the player’s joints have mass, it is causing some issues with my vehicle thing.

4

Actually, I was about to reply with setting a variable, but I noticed you already did that, so I’m going to test it on RS myself

5

Oh, I see. It’s because you’re redefining the variable every time the seat occupant leaves or enters. Meaning that when the seat occupant leaves, the variable occupant’s value will be set to nil.

6

But the reason why I did that is because I don’t want the value to retain forever, because a new person might sit in the seat and it still thinks the old person is massless.

7

You can set occupant to nil after it is changed. Just put
local occupant before the GetPropertyChangedSignal
I’m also testing in RS

8

So where do I put occupant == nil?

9

I found it. Here’s what I did.

local seat = script.Parent
local occupant
seat:GetPropertyChangedSignal("Occupant"):Connect(function()
	if seat.Occupant then
		occupant = seat.Occupant.Parent
	else
		
		print(occupant) --it prints!
	end
end)

You could probably make occupant nil after they leave.

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10

What does it print? fdaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

11

Is your seat thing working now? (Also it prints the occupant’s name)

12

It prints the character name seat.Occupant.Parent
seat = seat
seat.Occupant = Humanoid
seat.Occupant.Parent = Character