Are there any ways to swap Character models without certain LocalScripts resetting?

[DevKaister (Kaister)]

Hi! I need help with swapping out Custom Character models cleanly. My method of swapping to custom character models is very simple- and that is player.Character = customCharacter. It works for the most part, but the game treats this as a new character is spawning, and fires the CharacterAdded event, which I don’t want to happen. This method also resets all local scripts, even when I switch the local script’s parent to the new character before I destroy the old character.

Basically I want to switch the character’s rig to a new one without changing anything else. Does anyone have and clues on how to do this? HumanoidDescription is out of the question because this is a custom rig.

[DevKaister (Kaister)]

I still have yet to figure out how to do this. Does anyone have any ideas on how to do this? This is a really important factor in my game.

[CodedE44OR (CodedError)]

Here is the answer to your problem:

@LMH_Hutch

They recently added more functionality to the StarterPlayer object. If you add a model named StaterCharacter to it then that model will become the character that is used for your games characters, Player:LoadCharacter() will also use this model. It’s worth noting it will still try to load appearances into the model, that doesn’t change.

As far as I know the only catch is you need the model to have a PrimaryPart named Head , aside from that they’re pretty free form aside from the regular humanoid requirements exist (if you’re using humanoids that is).

Bonus tip placing a humanoid inside StarterPlayer will cause all characters humanoids to inherit the placed humanoids properties. Pretty easy way to give people super jump/speed or whatever. If a humanoid exists in StarterPlayer and not in your character model it will insert a copy of the placed humanoid into the character when it spawns.

[DevKaister (Kaister)]

This does the same thing as player.Character = CustomRig. The problem is that I want to rigs to swap cleanly, that is, I don’t want to use :LoadCharacter() or anything else because it will reset ALL the local scripts. I want to swap rigs as if nothing happened to anything else in the game. But the game sees the swapping rigs as a character that is respawning, so it fires the CharacterAdded event and causes the local scripts to stop functioning, which I don’t want happening.

[JackOfAllTrades101 (JackOfAllTrades)]

CharacterAdded fires whenever Player.Character is changed to any non-nil value so there isn’t really a way around it except for maybe using a debounce. Although, this wouldn’t solve the issue with all local scripts resetting. Instead of changing Player.Character, maybe try changing every limb and attachment individually. This might help in doing so:

Changing packages for R15 characters

See this thread. Add a reliable method for swapping out R15 packages without killing the Humanoid You have to disable the death state on both the client and the server before swapping out the body parts.