Add toggle to disable default scripts from being added to player and character upon initialization

[Aeresei]

As a Roblox developer, it is mildly annoying to constantly deal with the automatic and default scripts added into the player and character upon play-testing and publishing games, requiring developers to have their primary animate script in the character and named “Animate” or to have a blank, disabled, and empty script in the character named “Animate” is just bloat and mildly annoying to deal with.

Use Cases:

It’s not necessarily a large change and more of a QoL change, but to have a toggle to turn off adding default scripts would be incredibly nice to have, for example:
Turning off the game/engine/studio adding:

• Character
• • Health
• • Animate
• Player
• • PlayerScriptsLoader
• • RbxCharacterSounds
• • PlayerModule

If this would be added, it would lower the amount of scripts in game (very little, but still), make any script for removing character sounds or more completely obsolete.

In my case of my experience, I am required to use this layout (see image) just to avoid overlapping animations or unintended behavior from scripts, since I use custom movement, animations, and health.

And, it would also be pretty satisfying to have it be this instead:

Pretty clean if you ask me

(P.S, let me know if this should be in engine features instead of studio features)

[NOTEKAMI (NOT)]

I found a similar request from 2016 and it seems like Roblox is too lazy to add this feature😐

Allow StarterScripts to have no defaults

I am currently working on a game where I do not require the sound script, health script or animate script of the traditional character. Currently, to replace them I have to add scripts with the same names that are entirely blank. This just seems a little pointless to me, and instead a bool under StarterScripts should exist that decides whether or not to add the default scripts even if there’s no replacement.

[Aeresei]

yayyy, super duper fun

common roblox L

[East98]

I’ve been hoping to see this feature get added for years now. Here’s my reply on a similar post last July:

Disable Core Scripts Property

The practice of adding a script with Name matching default Roblox inserted ones feels like a work around rather than a supported feature. I can’t fully assume the default scripts injected to PlayerScripts at runtime wont change at some point (in Name or source), potentially breaking customs systems built on top of or adjacent to them. With something like a boolean property indicating whether Roblox should inject latest default player scripts, I can be much more confident what to expect when buil…

[Auhrii]

This would be useful, as new default scripts could easily be added without breaking games that completely override default behaviour. Developers shouldn’t have to write boilerplate code to remove these scripts automatically, or to clutter StarterCharacterScripts and StarterPlayerScripts with disabled versions of the same name (which also has the downside of the developer having to manually duplicate each one).

Edit: Looks like we’re actually getting it, please disregard. Allow StarterScripts to have no defaults - #8 by Razorter