Can't seem to modify player.Character?

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Hello I’m trying to swap a player’s character with another player, I searched up how to do this and it seems simply setting the player’s character to another rig works for them, but nothing is happening when I do it for some reason.

So far I’ve been able to clone both player’s characters, and I’ve set their player.Character to their corresponding clone, but nothing happens…

Here is my code:

            local Players = game.Players:GetPlayers()
			local randomPlayer
			local randomPlayerChar
			repeat
				randomPlayer = Players[math.random(1, #Players)]
				task.wait()
			until randomPlayer.Character ~= nil and randomPlayer.Character:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
			randomPlayerChar = randomPlayer.Character
			char.Archivable = true
			randomPlayerChar.Archivable = true
			local clone1 = char:Clone()
			local clone2 = randomPlayerChar:Clone()
			char.Archivable = false
			randomPlayerChar.Archivable = false
			char = clone2
			randomPlayerChar = clone1
			clone1:PivotTo(char.PrimaryPart.CFrame)
			clone2:PivotTo(randomPlayerChar.PrimaryPart.CFrame)
			clone1.Parent = workspace
			clone2.Parent = workspace

char is the Character of the player that triggered the RemoteEvent that started this script, and randomPlayerChar is the character of a randomly picked player in the server

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Try setting Player.Character on clientside and use SetNetworkOwner on serverside for the character you’re trying to set

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If you are just trying to swap the characters, then I think it would be easier to use CharacterAppearance. See this article:

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That’s what I was missing! Adding SetNetworkOwner() made it work, though I needed to set Player.Character on the server side, doing it on the client made nothing happen, other than setting their cameras

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This is definitely useful, will keep it in mind

What I was trying to achieve is not only to change their appearances though, I was trying to swap their positions and controls as well, basically like their souls swapped kind of thing

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