Unable To Get "BodyColors"

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#1

Hello!

I can’t seem to get the “BodyColors” Instance from the character…

Function 
local Player = Players.LocalPlayer
local Character = Player.CharacterAdded:Wait()

local function GetSkinColor(Character) --22
    local BodyColors = Character:FindFirstChildOfClass("BodyColors") --23
    local RightArmColor = BodyColors.RightArmColor3 --24
    local LeftArmColor = BodyColors.LeftArmColor3 --25
    return RightArmColor, LeftArmColor --26
end --27
Error

Players.fakedantdm1000.PlayerScripts.CreateViewport:24: attempt to index nil with 'RightArmColor3'

Tried 
local BodyColors = Character["Body Colors"] --23

local BodyColors = Character:WaitForChild("Body Colors") --23

local BodyColors = Character:FindFirstChild("Body Colors") --23

This is probably a really stupid issue but I can’t find any way to solve it.

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#3

I think this issue is about defining the BodyColors Instance Itself
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#5

Oh I see the issue

You’re not detecting if there’s either a Character being added, or a Character Instance already added to the game before the script even started

Try this:

local Player = Players.LocalPlayer
local Character = Player.Character or Player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
#6

Same error occurs:
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#7

Try this?

local function GetSkinColor(Character) --22
    local BodyColors = Character:FindFirstChild("BodyColors") --23

    print(BodyColors)

    if BodyColors then
        print(BodyColors.ClassName)
        local RightArmColor = BodyColors.RightArmColor3 --24
        local LeftArmColor = BodyColors.LeftArmColor3 --25
        return RightArmColor, LeftArmColor --26
    end 
end --27
#8

The issue is the defining of “Body Colors” Then:
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#9

Your Character parameter may be nil if that’s the case, can you check that what you’re passing is valid to your local function?

#10

Added Character Print:

local Player = Players.LocalPlayer
local Character = Player.Character or Player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
-- ...

local function GetSkinColor(Character)

    print(Character) -- "fakedantdm1000" (My Username)

    local BodyColors = Character:FindFirstChild("BodyColors")

    print(BodyColors) -- nil

    -- ...

Output:

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#11

So the Character Model is valid then

Try looping through all of the Character’s Children, and see if you can find anything that’s relevant to a BodyColors object of some sort

local Player = Players.LocalPlayer
local Character = Player.Character or Player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
-- ...

local function GetSkinColor(Character)

    print(Character) -- "fakedantdm1000" (My Username)

    for _, Object in pairs(Character:GetChildren()) do
        print(Object)
    end
    --local BodyColors = Character:FindFirstChild("BodyColors")

    --print(BodyColors) -- nil
#12

I’m so confused:

local function GetSkinColor(Character) --22

    print(Character) -- "fakedantdm1000" (My Username)

    for _, Object in pairs(Character:GetChildren()) do
        print(Object)
    end

    print(Character:FindFirstChild("Health"))

    local BodyColors = Character:FindFirstChild("BodyColors") --23

    print(BodyColors)

    if BodyColors then
        print(BodyColors.ClassName)
        local RightArmColor = BodyColors.RightArmColor3 --24
        local LeftArmColor = BodyColors.LeftArmColor3 --25
        return RightArmColor, LeftArmColor --26
    end 
end --27

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#13

Are you passing a Character property of some sort

You should just be passing the Character Model as its own

#14

I am.

I’ve created another game and copied the required scripts into it:
ScriptingSupport(8).rbxl (27.8 KB)

I’m so confused to why this is happening.

#15

Ok so looking at the code, all I had to do was change this

To this

local BodyColors = Character:WaitForChild("Body Colors")

And I referenced the loop after defining the BodyColors variable, and that pretty much worked

local function GetSkinColor(Character) --22

    print(Character) -- "fakedantdm1000" (My Username)

    local BodyColors = Character:WaitForChild("Body Colors") --23
	
	for _, Object in pairs(Character:GetChildren()) do
		print(Object)
	end
	

    print(BodyColors)

    if BodyColors then
        print(BodyColors.ClassName)
        local RightArmColor = BodyColors.RightArmColor3 --24
        local LeftArmColor = BodyColors.LeftArmColor3 --25
        return RightArmColor, LeftArmColor --26
    end 
end --27