Problems when switching Player.Character

[jamee25 (RedRed)]

So I’m making an RPG where you summon and control another character by pressing a button. However once that happens, Local scripts become unusable when switching controlled characters, which raises tons of problems. I tried looking around for solutions but they tend to be unrelated or unusable. Any ideas on how to fix this?

[bluebxrrybot (blueberry)]

Make sure that the network owner of the new character is indeed the player. If not, you might not be able to move, or the movement will be delayed.

[jamee25 (RedRed)]

I tried to set the network ownership but it still doesn’t seem to make local scripts work. I checked it using a simple click detection. Here’s the server script for switching characters.

PS: Movement is okay, just the local scripts

local repstore = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local events = repstore:WaitForChild("Events")

events.RemoteEvent.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player, status)
	if status == "activate" then
		player.Character.Archivable = true
		character2 = player.Character:Clone()
		character2.Parent = workspace
		
		for i, parts in pairs(character2:GetDescendants()) do
			if parts:IsA("BasePart") then
				parts:SetNetworkOwner(player)
			end
		end
		
		character2.PrimaryPart.Position = player.Character.PrimaryPart.Position
		character2.Archivable = false
		player.Character.Archivable = false
		
		character2.Parent = workspace
		
		local spirit = game.ReplicatedStorage.Character1:Clone()
		spirit.Parent = workspace
		spirit.PrimaryPart.CFrame = player.Character.PrimaryPart.CFrame * CFrame.new(0,0,-5)
		
		for i, parts in pairs(spirit:GetDescendants()) do
			if parts:IsA("BasePart") then
				parts:SetNetworkOwner(player)
			end
		end
		
		player.Character = spirit
		events.RemoteEvent:FireClient(player,{CharName = spirit.Name})
		
	elseif status == "deactivate" then
		player.Character = character2
		events.RemoteEvent:FireClient(player,{CharName = player.Name})
	end
end)

Click Debug (Placed inside cloned character)

local uis = game:GetService("UserInputService")

uis.InputBegan:Connect(function(input, gpe)
	if gpe then return end
	if input.UserInputType == Enum.UserInputType.MouseButton1 then
		print("B R U H")
	end
end)

[3Crk]

If I had to guess, it might be because the character doesn’t have a Player object and you are trying to use services/built-in functions that require one too early. For that, I recommend you move that stuff to StarterPlayerScripts rather than having it in a character model.

[jamee25 (RedRed)]

wait if that’s the case, then does that mean that cloning the script to the character during the switch would work just fine?

[jamee25 (RedRed)]

Looks like cloning the scripts after changing player.character works absolutely fine, thanks for this!