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#1

It’s a pretty simple script, I’m just trying to get the player’s character from username but it doesn’t seem to be working?

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And if you have any better ways (SIMPLE ONLY) of getting the player’s workplace character please tell me!

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#2

A pretty nice and easy standard way of getting the character every time is:

local char = plr.Character or plr.CharacterAdded:Wait()

It doesnt guarantee something wont happen to the character like it falls off the world and gets deleted but its nice and easy

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#3

You could (and probably should) use the CharacterAddedEvent inside your PlayerAdded event. The CharacterAdded event tracks when a character has been added to the workspace. You can also pass a parameter through the event, which is the character that was added.

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#4

@1Urge 's Suggestion

local Players = game:GetService("Players")
Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)
		print( Player.Name .. "' has joined the game") 

	Player.CharacterAdded:Connect(Character)
		print( Character.Name .. "'s CharacterAdded") 
	end)
end)

https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/event/Player/CharacterAdded

#5

I tried:
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However it’s refusing to print my username and instead printing:
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#6

Since the player just joined the character is not existing yet, therefore its gonna be nil which produces that error. Use CharacterAdded event as suggested by the people above.

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#7 
game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
    wait(1)
    local character = player.Character
    print(character.Name)

Try this. Also use character instead of char because I think char also means something else as it gets highlighted in blue. I don’t know, I’m not in studio. This was hand written code and then typed. Hope this helps.

#8

You said you tired but your code doesn’t apply to what he suggested.

if you had your code would have looked like this

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(a)
local char = a.Character or a.CharacterAdded:Wait()
print(char.Name)
end)
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