Can anyone tell me why the script is unable to find VehicleSeat

[trim crane]

When playing the game, if you check in the explorer, is VehicleSeat there?

That's a lot of code to look through, so it'd help if you just show the part where it attempts to find VehicleSeat

[simple lark]

Fair enough will do:

local function setupCarListener(carModel: Model)
-- ... (Code inside the function below) ...
end

-- Gets the car model as input (e.g., Workspace.Car)
local bodyPart = carModel:FindFirstChild("Body")
-- Checks if 'Body' was actually found. If not, it stops processing this car.
if not bodyPart then return end


-- Now searches inside the 'bodyPart' found above
local driverSeat = bodyPart:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("VehicleSeat")
-- Checks if a 'VehicleSeat' was actually found inside 'bodyPart'. If not, it stops.
if not driverSeat then return end

[trim crane]

and if you look in the explorer while the game is running? Is it still there?

[simple lark]

Yea it is

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[trim crane]

What if you print out the children of the body & print out the driverSeat variable? Just trying to rule some stuff out and debug a bit

[simple lark]

Debug output

[trim crane]

Did you :WaitForChild since you're looking for the seat on the client? I know that isn't directly the same as FindFirstChildWhichIsA, but the seat may not replicate in time, so I'd want to analyze that

[simple lark]

will try to swap it out

I get this output

18:32:29.276 Stack End - Studio
18:32:32.991 Players.fru_buski.PlayerScripts.VehicleEntryController:135: attempt to call a nil value - Client - VehicleEntryController:135
18:32:32.991 Stack Begin - Studio
18:32:32.991 Script 'Players.fru_buski.PlayerScripts.VehicleEntryController', Line 135 - Studio - VehicleEntryController:135
18:32:32.991 Stack End - Studio

The lines in question here are

-- Setup Enter Prompt Listener
if not carPromptConnections[prompt] then
    carPromptConnections[prompt] = prompt.Triggered:Connect(function()
        if not isSeated and not isTransitioning then
            handleEnterCar(prompt)
        end
    end)
    prompt.Destroying:Connect(function()
        if carPromptConnections[prompt] then
            carPromptConnections[prompt]:Disconnect()
            carPromptConnections[prompt] = nil
        end
    end)
end

[trim crane]

Hmm, this is a different issue than we were just debugging

handleEnterCall could be nil

Are you seeing anything about an infinite yield? How did you add WaitForChild?

[simple lark]

The places where WaitForChild are here was just changed from findfirstchildwhichisa to waitforchild

local function setupCarListener(carModel: Model)
local bodyPart = carModel:FindFirstChild("Body")
if not bodyPart then return end

local driverSeatInstance = bodyPart:WaitForChild("VehicleSeat", WAIT_TIMEOUT)
if not driverSeatInstance or not driverSeatInstance:IsA("VehicleSeat") then
    warn("VehicleEntryController: Failed to find a valid VehicleSeat named 'VehicleSeat' in", bodyPart:GetFullName())
    return
end
local driverSeat = driverSeatInstance :: VehicleSeat

local promptInstance = driverSeat:WaitForChild("ProximityPrompt", WAIT_TIMEOUT)
if not promptInstance or not promptInstance:IsA("ProximityPrompt") then
    warn("VehicleEntryController: Failed to find a valid ProximityPrompt named 'ProximityPrompt' in", driverSeat:GetFullName())
    return
end

[trim crane]

and it still says that it doesn't exist?

Can you print out all the children of "Body" just before you wait for it?

Check in the explorer both on the server & client to confirm it's still there too

Maybe a task.wait(10) just before your clientside workspace scan

It's either slow to replicate or just not there

[simple lark]

Will try

Im getting srsly confused here

[trim crane]

are you trying to find a model inside the seat?

oh sorry nevermind

What's the event name constant?

[simple lark]

This?

[trim crane]

No like the constant you use, what's the value of that? the one you use to search

[simple lark]

Oh 2 sec

ENTER_REMOTE_EVENT_NAME: The value is "EnterVehicleEvent".

EXIT_REMOTE_EVENT_NAME: The value is "ExitVehicleEvent".

[trim crane]

Okay that looks fine.

I mean generally when the client can't find something from the server it means it hasn't replicated yet. Did you add that task.wait before the workspace scan on the client?

[simple lark]

Yeah

This is the entire output with debug prints

[trim crane]

Ah okay, so we found the VehicleSeat fine. So printing those children aren't important anymore

So I guess we need to make sure we're looking for the event in the right spot.

It's a bit tough to look through all of that output on my phone, but maybe just a single print to say where it's looking from, and just one line here to tell me what the output was

[simple lark]

The script fails right after the line VehicleEntryController: > handleEnterCar - carModel found: Body. It then tries to run carModel:FindFirstChild("EnterVehicleEvent") and that fails.

So, the script thinks the variable carModel (which it got from seat:FindFirstAncestorOfClass("Model")) refers to the object named "Body". It's looking for the "EnterVehicleEvent" directly inside that object named "Body" according to the log, but it can't find it there.

And i just realized im stupid the EnterVehicleEvent isnt directly inside of Body its inside of Car

[trim crane]

Oh lol yes I just saw that now too

[simple lark]

Well now i just get the fadein and fadeout i dont actually get in the car... I mustve just wrote everything wrong bro 😭

[trim crane]

Well you're partly there! things are happening which is great

[simple lark]

Yeah true