effect on death not working

[warm hare]

so, i'm trying to make a spooky game that has a glitch effect when you die, i already put the script in the startercharacterscripts but it's still not working.
here's the code:

health = character.humanoid.health
eerror = game.lighting.error -- effect name

function dead()
  health = 0
end

if dead() then
  eerror.enabled = true
end```
i think its an issue with the dead function.

[warm hare]

effect on death not working

[knotty garden]

What the...

[warm hare]

is it bad?

[knotty garden]

Yea... Really bad

It doest make any sense

First of all, check if character is nil or not (add a print before you declare character)

Now, if we know character isnt nil

We are gonna use .Died event to run a function when player died

lemme check something fast

[warm hare]

ok

[knotty garden]

Aight, I had a little issue, now fixed

So, have you checked the character?

[warm hare]

how exactly do i do that?

[heavy fulcrum]

** You are now Level 1! **

[knotty garden]

.

char = script.parent
print(char)

[warm hare]

ohh

why though?

[knotty garden]

Why what?

[warm hare]

nvm

[knotty garden]

We need to make sure that character isnt nil

If is nil, is gonna cause errors

Tell me when you checked

Hello?

[warm hare]

he is nil

[knotty garden]

Aight

Well is the script localized?

[warm hare]

nop

[knotty garden]

where*

Sorry

[warm hare]

StarterCharacterScripts

[knotty garden]

Ok

Not sure how scripts would load from there

So try adding a WaitForChild

[warm hare]

is it waitforchild:char?

[knotty garden]

No

local char = script.Parent
repeat 
    char = script.Parent
    wait()
until char ~= nil

I don't know a better way to do it so I come up with this

Wait

What kind of script is it?

Local or server?

[warm hare]

server

[knotty garden]

Ok

So now what we got the character, we are gonna use .Died event

[warm hare]

where tho?

dead function?

[knotty garden]

2 secs

Ok, we got the character so we also have the humanoid

We could create a new variable for humanoid

local hum = char:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")

And now is time to use the event

hum.Died:Connect(function()
  print("Character died!")
end)

Now you just have to add the effect

Which I'm not sure what it is and I have to go

Sorry

[warm hare]

ok

thank you dude

[knotty garden]

You're welcome