Hey! I am trying to create a survivors tab which uses the players id to create a photo and username ui chip after a round is finished, but in my I am unable to get the player using Players:FindFirstChild() with a string value.
I have tried using task.wait, teams as well as looking for similar problems on the dev forum, but I am unable to find anything that relates to my problem and fixes it.
Any help would be appreciated I am quite new to scripting lua!
local events = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage").Events
local player = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer
local roundInfo = game.ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("RoundInfo")
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local gui = script.Parent
local ui = player.PlayerGui.UI_Elements.MainMenu.UI
events:WaitForChild("toggleMainMenu").OnClientEvent:Connect(function(visible)
ui.Visible = visible
print(visible)
events.ShimeStop:Fire(true)
end)
events.Survivors.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(Survivors)
print("rec")
events.ShimeStop:Fire(false)
print(Survivors)
for i,v in ipairs(Survivors) do
print(i, v)
task.wait(0.1)
local playerv = Players:FindFirstChild(v)
-- Add a small delay to allow player object to replicate
task.wait(0.1)
-- Proceed with player object operations
local playerImg = ui.MainUI.SurvivorsContainer.Survivors.PlayerTemplate:Clone()
playerImg.ImageLabel.Shine.Enabled = true
local img = game.Players:GetUserThumbnailAsync(playerv.UserId, Enum.ThumbnailType.AvatarThumbnail, Enum.ThumbnailSize.Size100x100)
playerImg:WaitForChild("ImageLabel").Image = img
playerImg.TextLabel.Text = playerv.Name
playerImg.Name = player.Name
playerImg.Visible = true
playerImg.Parent = ui.MainUI.SurvivorsContainer.Survivors
end
end)
FindFirstChild can return nil if it doesn’t find anything, I suggest using WaitForTime with a time-out duration of 5 seconds instead:
local events = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage").Events
local player = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer
local roundInfo = game.ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("RoundInfo")
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local gui = script.Parent
local ui = player.PlayerGui.UI_Elements.MainMenu.UI
events:WaitForChild("toggleMainMenu").OnClientEvent:Connect(function(visible)
ui.Visible = visible
print(visible)
events.ShimeStop:Fire(true)
end)
events.Survivors.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(Survivors)
print("rec")
events.ShimeStop:Fire(false)
print(Survivors)
for i,v in ipairs(Survivors) do
print(i, v)
local playerv = Players:WaitForChild(v, 5) -- Will wait for 5 seconds for the player to load
if playerv then -- If 5 second passes and no player is found, playerv will be nil so an if statement is needed
-- Proceed with player object operations
local playerImg = ui.MainUI.SurvivorsContainer.Survivors.PlayerTemplate:Clone()
playerImg.ImageLabel.Shine.Enabled = true
local img = game.Players:GetUserThumbnailAsync(playerv.UserId, Enum.ThumbnailType.AvatarThumbnail, Enum.ThumbnailSize.Size100x100)
playerImg:WaitForChild("ImageLabel").Image = img
playerImg.TextLabel.Text = playerv.Name
playerImg.Name = player.Name
playerImg.Visible = true
playerImg.Parent = ui.MainUI.SurvivorsContainer.Survivors
end
end
end)
I assume this doesn’t work because server sends survivors as an array of players instead of array of player names. You can check that by printing typeof(v) inside the for loop. If it prints Instance then you can remove playerv variable and replace its occurences with just v, because it would be the player instance
