Way to grab players character on remove?

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#1

I’m trying to grab the players character when they leave the game so I can get what tools they have equipped and their position. However, it seems as if both character removing and player removing do not allow you to do this, as the character is nil by the time I try and clone it / access it. Is there a way to make player characters stick around longer, or to access its information regardlesss of if it still exists or not?

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#2

I can’t test rn, so if you can’t get the character in the PlayerRemoving then you should store a cloned version of the character in a a ReplicatedStorage folder (update the model when something changes) then upon PlayerRemoving do what you gotta do, then Destory() that model

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#3

Use this:

game.Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(player)
	player.CharacterRemoving:Connect(function(character)
		-- your code here --
	end)
end)
#4

You can use the method @CryoPlaysAlot told you about or you can use the childremoved:

local pos
game.Workspace.ChildRemoved:Connect(function(child)
    if not child:IsA("Model") then return end
    if child:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart") then 
        pos = child:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart").Position
        -- find other stuff like backpack tools here
    end
end)

I’m not sure if this will work since I couldn’t test it but give it a try. I think that characterremoving is still better.

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#5

I do recommend that approach, however, I didn’t mention it because:

So idk, maybe OP used it wrong :man_shrugging:

#6

Cache each player’s characters inside a table.