String expected, got nil

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#1

Pretty straight forward question

This is a LOCAL script

local itemIcons = {
	["StarterWeapon"] = "rbxassetid://7306739276",
	["Weapon2"] = "rbxassetid://7306744538"

}



while true do wait()
	
	local itemEquipped = plr:WaitForChild("EquippedItem").Value
	
	itemImage.Image = itemIcons[itemEquipped]
	
end

Thanks in advance!

#2

Are you sure that it’s not just the Value equaling to nil when you first start it up…?

My assumption is that when a Player equips an item, that EquippedItem StringValue gets changed to the current item equipped on your Character?

#3

Yeah, but it’s automatically set to “StarterSword”

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)

local equippedItem = Instance.new("StringValue",plr)
equippedItem.Name = "EquippedItem"
equippedItem.Value = "StarterSword"
#4

Couldn’t you just check every time the StringValue changes using a Changed Event instead of a while true do loop? It’d be way more simpler that way to handle it

local Player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local EquippedItem = Player:WaitForChild("EquippedItem")

local itemIcons = {
	["StarterSword"] = "rbxassetid://7306739276",
	["Weapon2"] = "rbxassetid://7306744538"

}

local function ChangeImage(NewValue)
    itemImage.Image = itemIcons[NewValue]
end

EquippedItem.Changed:Connect(ChangeImage)
ChangeImage(EquippedItem.Value)

I also believe that you’re trying to check for 2 different things, cause StarterSword & StarterWeapon are both different strings

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#5

Ahh thank you, haha made a typo. I should’ve changed StarterWeapon to StarterSword… Thanks!!