After setting a players character their animations stop working

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#1

I’m trying to implement a skins system. I’ve done this by making a clone of the skin and then setting the players character to this skin:

local skin = game:GetService("ServerStorage").Skins.Skin1.StarterCharacter
	
player:LoadCharacter()
local newSkin = skin:Clone()
newSkin.Name = player.Name
player.Character = newSkin
newSkin.Parent = workspace

This seemed to work until I tried it in multiplayer mode. As it turns out, the animations are only visible to the local player and the other players couldn’t see any animation.

I haven’t been able to find a solution to this. The only way I can get the animations to work is by setting the StarterCharacter inside of the StarterPlayer. I doubt this is the way you’re supposed to do it though, as it gives the client a lot of responsibility.

#2

You shouldn’t really ever be manually assigning to player.Character. StarterCharacter exists for custom characters, and will handle all the proper referencing needed by the engine. There’s a possibility you’re memory leaking the character created by player:LoadCharacter() as well.

If you really don’t want to use StarterCharacter; then the animation problem is most likely a result of the client not having NetworkOwnership over it’s new custom character. This will allow animations to be played on the owner client, then replicate them to the other clients.

#3

So I found the problem. Turns out the humanoid I had inside of the character wasn’t proper and for some reason caused the animations to not replicate to the server.

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