WaitForChild() Issue

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#1

You can write your topic however you want, but you need to answer these questions:

  1. What do you want to achieve? How to Use WaitForChild(), Corectly. and how to use waitforchild for waiting boolvalue with player.Name
game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player) ---- script1 
 local a = Instance.new(BoolValue)
 a.Parent = workspace
 a.Name = player.Name
end

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player) --------- script2
 local a = workspace:WaitForChild() --- player name ??
end
#2

now there will be a problem and that is the players character is named the same thing so you could do a.Name = (player.Name…“s bool value”)
and then workspace:WaitForChild(player.Name…“s bool value”)

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#3

You can also use Player.CharacterAdded to get the character inside the PlayerAdded event.

#4

This right here, your original method isn’t reliable as it limits what you can do, or adds unnecessary work.

#5

If you want to get the character, then you do workspace:WaitForChild(player.Name) in script2, as this will wait for a child in workspace with the same name as the player. You put a string value in WaitForChild to do this (in this case being player.Name).

Some criticism I would give is that you should always do game:GetService("Players") instead of game.Players. Do this for every service except workspace, as that is already a variable. As well as this, when creating an instance, you should set the parent of it AFTER you set the values to it. The reason why can be seen in this post: PSA: Don't use Instance.new() with parent argument

Hope this helps!

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#6

:WaitForChild() can be used to wait for a child that’s being cloned, such as the player’s PlayerGui, and it’ll be automatically defined once added. If the child wasn’t added for a long time, a warning outputs as it yields for it (waits).

If you want to define the player’s character, I suggest using Player.CharacterAdded event - that way it’ll fire every time they respawn/reset, and in case you have a statue of yourself in workspace.