Garry's mod lua, attempt to call method error

Question

I am testing out Garry's Mod Lua And a strange error keeps poping up!

This error seems to be popping up whenever i use any Glua classes, Such as Player:kill!

this is my error

[ERROR] lua/test.lua:6: attempt to call method 'Kill' (a nil value)

And here is the code i am using

function killplayer()


 local ply = LocalPlayer()

 ply:Kill()

end

killplayer()

Please help!

Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov · Answer 1 · 2017-03-17T06:15:02.133

1

Try this:

function killplayer()
  if !(LocalPlayer() and LocalPlayer():Alive()) then return end
  LocalPlayer():Kill()
end

edited Mar 17 '17 at 06:15

answered Mar 14 '17 at 07:16

[ERROR] lua/test.lua:6: bad argument #1 to 'pairs' (table expected, got userdata) 1. pairs - [C]:-1 2. killplayer - lua/test.lua:6 3. unknown - lua/test.lua:12 – Nathan galler Mar 17 '17 at 00:43
then forget about for-loop, and try to just `print(ply)`. It will show if `ply` exists on the time when you call it. – Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov Mar 17 '17 at 06:07
Just, [Documentation](http://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/Global/LocalPlayer) says it will be nil until all the things will be initialized... – Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov Mar 17 '17 at 06:08

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Aug 03 '22 at 04:39

0

Did you run lua_openscript test.lua? Because you have to run this script on server side, because Kill() is function working only on server side.

edited Aug 03 '22 at 04:39

Jeremy Caney

answered Jul 29 '22 at 08:05

GlitchedLime

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