Why is :Clone() returning nil for me?

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#1

Hello everyone, hope you are having a good day. I am getting this error message:

Players.crossbar.PlayerGui.PlacementEvent.ClientPlacement:288: attempt to index nil with ‘Parent’

Here is my code:

local model = furniture:FindFirstChild(modelNameGiven)
	
print("Furniture model: ", model)
	
local modelClone = model:Clone()
	
modelClone.Parent = workspace -- This is line 288 of the script, nil

This is also in a LocalScript. I don’t know why cloning the model results in nil, when the model itself is found and does not break any lines in the code. As soon as I clone it though the model returns nil and I get an error. I don’t know why. Could anyone tell me? Thank you very much!

#2

Im guessing the script can’t find the model, try using a string or a path with a name, idk.

Does your print statement print?

#3

Model is found. It returns the name of the model in this line:

print("Furniture model: ", model)

But as soon as I try to clone it it just returns nil for me. Was there an update that deprecated the ability to clone parts locally? Thanks.

#4

Well… no, probably would be disastrous.

But im not sure why it’s not working otherwise. Can you provide a little more context of your script, for example what is “modelNameGiven”.

I guess you can also try wrapping it in an if statement and seeing if that works? Really weird though.

if modelClone then
modelClone.Parent = workspace
end
#5

There is a property called Archivable. If archivable is off, then the instance can’t be cloneable. Check to see if model has Archivable set to true.

#6

It might be important to add that the model is also from ReplicatedStorage. Maybe that’s why?

#7

Being in ReplicatedStorage shouldn’t affect anything.

#8

Nope, that shouldn’t be causing the issue. I guess try wrapping it in an if statement if you haven’t tried already, or check if it was Archivable, set it to true if false.

#9

Yes, it seems I have a script that is turning its Archivable setting to false automatically. It will probably work once I find the script that’s doing this. Thanks for all your help everyone.

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