What is the most efficient way to get the player character from the server?

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So I have this working piece of code here that will get the player’s character from the workspace but I don’t know if it’s efficient to do this or not:

local Players = game:GetService("Players")

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
	local plrChar = game.Workspace:WaitForChild(tostring(plr))
	
	print(plrChar)
	print(plrChar.Parent)
end)

The piece of code that I have shown above is the best way that I know to get the player’s character from the server.

Can someone tell me if there are better and efficient ways to get the player character from the server?

2

The Player instance has a Character property. It’s the preferred way of accessing the character.

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Alright so I have made changes to that piece of code and used that method but when I try to print the character’s Parent property it is always nil, can you please explain to me why that happens?

Here’s the changes that I have made:

local Players = game:GetService("Players")

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
	local plrChar = plr.Character or plr.CharacterAdded:wait()
	
	print(plrChar)
	print(plrChar.Parent)
end)

Here’s a screenshot of what it’s printing in the output:

player character

4

Because CharacterAdded event fires when it’s model assigned to Character property of Player which happens before it gets parented to Workspace.

Source: Last sentence of the first paragraph in CharacterAdded event API reference page.

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My most viable method is.

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
      player.ChracterAdded:Connect(function(char)
      -- stuff
      end)
end)
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