Why is LocalPlayer.Character not working?

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#1

For some reason this following line of code is not working:local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer.Character
Its in a local script why is it not working?

#2

The problem may be because there is no actual character yet.

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#3

How would i solve this? :waitforchild?

#4

You wouldnt use :WaitForChild because the character isn’t actually the child of the Player. What you would probably use is

game.Players.LocalPlayer.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(character)

end)
#5

the problem is i want player to be a variable not to trigger a function.

#6 
game.Players.LocalPlayer.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(character)

if you look where it says function( right after that it says character. That would be the variable for the character, you can test this by maybe doing something like

game.Players.LocalPlayer.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(character)
print(character.Name)
end)

for example

#7

oh ok then using character as my variable not player?

#8 
local plr = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer
local character = plr.Character or plr.CharacterAdded:Wait()

This should work.

#9

You can use player if you replace game.Players.LocalPlayer.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(player)
character with player, or whatever variable you want it to be.

#10

Honestly, no point of doing this when you could just use the solution above, which would ensure the loading.

#11

the problem with this is that is says “Humanoid is not a valid member of Model “Workspace.hellobeede”” (hellobeede is my accounts name) so i think it hasnt loaded yet

#12

Ensure that the Humanoid exists, waitforchild it and before doing anything.

local hum = character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
local plr = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer
local character = plr.Character or plr.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local hum = character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
if hum then
	print("Humanoid Found")
	-- Resume Function --
end

The code I sent you ensures that the character loads, so I am guessing you are either doing something wrong or its roblox’s engine, as I use those variables for every script related to character in the client, and they work.

#13

thanks this seems to work. the reason I got the error before is because I forgot to add waitforchild. Thanks you saved me a lot of time

#14

No problem, usually it doesn’t even require the WaitForChild, my guess is that you are using Workspace.StreamingEnabled

Good luck!