When a player falls into the "Void" script it stops working

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#1

Hi
I made a script that will regenerate the terrain if the nearest player is too far away.
script works flawlessly, but when the player falls out of the map or. his Character ceases to exist he writes me a error. (and the script stops working)

I gave: if Player.Character then … but it doesn’t work

here is an essential part of the code:

		repeat
			local closestchar = nil

			for i, plr in pairs(game.Players:GetChildren()) do ---4
				if plr.Character then  --then player.character
					local distance = (plr.Character.HumanoidRootPart.Position - script.Parent.Parent.range.Position).Magnitude
					if not closestchar or (closestchar.HumanoidRootPart.Position - script.Parent.Parent.range.Position).Magnitude > range then
						closestchar = plr.Character print(closestchar)
					end 
				end
			end ---4


			if closestchar then --then closestchaaracter
				local distance2 = (closestchar.HumanoidRootPart.Position - script.Parent.Parent.range.Position).Magnitude
				if distance2 > range then
					-------- regen
					print("regen")
					script.Parent.Value.Value = false
				else
					print("he is close")
				end  
			end 
			wait(cooldown)
		until script.Parent.Value.Value == false

The code is not complete, but only in this part is there an error.
How else could the error be prevented?
or how would I make the script refresh?
I will be happy for any help.

#2

what line prints the error in the console?

#3 
game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(character)
-- your script here
end 
end
#4

Should probably provide the full script for more context.

#5

Local distance2… Probably line 16, but I can’t figure it out right now.

#6

local range = 75
local cooldown = 10
script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function(hit) —1
if hit.Parent:FindFirstChild(“Humanoid”) then —2
if script.Parent.Value.Value == false then —3
script.Parent.Value.Value = true
—loop
repeat
local closestchar = nil

        for i, plr in pairs(game.Players:GetChildren()) do ---4
            if plr.Character then 
                local distance = (plr.Character.HumanoidRootPart.Position - script.Parent.Parent.range.Position).Magnitude
                if not closestchar or (closestchar.HumanoidRootPart.Position - script.Parent.Parent.range.Position).Magnitude > range then
                    closestchar = plr.Character print(closestchar)
                end 
            end
        end ---4
        
        
        if closestchar then --ak charakter
            local distance2 = (closestchar.HumanoidRootPart.Position - script.Parent.Parent.range.Position).Magnitude
            if distance2 > range then
                -------- regen
                    print("je ďaleko = regen")
                    
                    game.Workspace.Terrain:FillBlock(script.Parent.Parent.Part1.CFrame, script.Parent.Parent.Part1.Size, Enum.Material.Basalt)
                    game.Workspace.Terrain:FillBlock(script.Parent.Parent.Part2.CFrame, script.Parent.Parent.Part2.Size, Enum.Material.Basalt)
                    script.Parent.Value.Value = false
                    print("Terén je obnovený a script je vypnutý")
            else
                print("je blízko")
            end  
            end 
            wait(cooldown)
        until script.Parent.Value.Value == false  print("script off")
    end ---3
end   ---2

end) —1
Here is the full script.

#7

Player characters when falling in the void, doesn’t actually destroy the character. Rather it deletes all the parts (such as parts of accessories, root part, and body parts) but not instances such as the character model itself and the humanoid. It does this because the void can only detect BaseParts.

In this case, you may want to use FindFirstChild and check if the character has a HumanoidRootPart.

Here is a basic understanding of how it goes:

local character = player.Character

if character then
   local HRP = character:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart")

   if HRP then
         --if the instance exist or it is not nil, then run code
   end
end
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#8

Oh, I didn’t know, so the character exists, but parts of it don’t.
Thank you very much for all your help.

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#9

Can i might ask if there’s any chance (purely theoretically) that if script finds out there’s a HumanoidRootPart (or another part) and that’s when part is destroyed, he writes out an error in the next line when he needs that part? It didn’t happen to me, but it was possible? If so, it’s definitely too small, or is it impossible?

#10

If you mean that if the part doesnt exist, yes you can use an else statement then use the warn() command to send a yellow colored text in the output.

local character = player.Character

if character then
   local HRP = character:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart")

   if HRP then
         --if the instance exist or it is not nil, then run code
   else
        --if the instance doesnt exist or it is nil, then run code
        warn("warning")
   end
end

Though if you meant to check if an already referenced part exists just got destroyed, im not so sure. There is a recent event of instance called Destroying, though on my end the event doesnt fire at all.

I dont think you should worry about this though, you may just do another FindFirstChild function then use the process like the code above.

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