Trying to understand what's causing this error on Roblox's Dialogue plugin

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#1

So I’m using Official Roblox Dialogue System and Dialogue Editor Beta - and it works great on every other place.

But my current game runs into this error

Not sure what’s causing it.

#2

Tried reinstalling the scripts? There’s an option to do that in the plugin toolbar.

#3

This will occur if you are changing the parent of an instance that :Destroy() has be called on.

local a = Instance.new('Part') 
a.Parent = workspace 
a:Destroy() 
a.Parent = workspace -- error
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#4

When the plugin was made, there was no way to preserve BillboardGuis on death, so instead it temporarily de-parents them on the Died event to prevent cleanup on death, and then re-parents them when the character respawns. When you call LoadCharacter, it never gets a chance to do this, and the BillboardGuis get destroyed, causing this error when it tries to set their parent again on spawn.

To fix this, Roblox has now added a ResetOnSpawn property to BillboardGuis, so you can edit to initialize that to false in created BillboardGuis, and remove the code that de/re-parents them. Maybe @Davidii can update the plugin with this as well.

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#5

Thanks for the explanation.