Touched event glitching when not hitting a player

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#1

So I have this Touched event that detects if it’s hitting a player or a regular material and only about 1/10th of a time it glitches and says this in the output:

13:00:55.235 - ServerScriptService.Script:905: attempt to index nil with 'Name'
13:00:55.236 - Stack Begin
13:00:55.236 - Script 'ServerScriptService.Script, Line 905 - function FakeRayGuns
13:00:55.237 - Script 'ServerScriptService.Script', Line 1919
13:00:55.237 - Stack End

“FakeRayGuns” is what I called my touched function because its meant to mimic Rays and it works fine usually but here is the script:

local DetectedHumanoid = nil

if Hit.Parent.Name ~= Player.Name and Hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") ~= nil then
	DetectedHumanoid = Hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
	
elseif Hit.Parent.Parent.Name ~= Player.Name and Hit.Parent.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") ~= nil then
	DetectedHumanoid = Hit.Parent.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
	
elseif Hit.Parent.Parent.Parent.Name ~= Player.Name and Hit.Parent.Parent.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") ~= nil then
	DetectedHumanoid = Hit.Parent.Parent.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
	
elseif Hit.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.Name ~= Player.Name and Hit.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") ~= nil then
	DetectedHumanoid = Hit.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
	
elseif Hit.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.Name ~= Player.Name and Hit.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") ~= nil then
	DetectedHumanoid = Hit.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
end

That script is in a function obviously but its meant to detect the Humanoid in the fake ray when it hits an object if there is a Humanoid.

(The last elseif is where it is erroring)

#2

Are you sure Hit.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent isn’t nil and exists?

#3

Yes it is not nil I put that if statement in an if Hit ~= nil then statement.

#4

No, I’m talking about the object you’re trying to index with Hit.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent, not the hit object itself because you might be trying to index the parent of the datamodel which is nil.

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#5

OHHH Right I’ll try fix that and see if it helps