Changing packages for R15 characters

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#1

As you may know, swapping packages between R15 characters is far harder than doing the same for R6. The best method I found was from the following wiki page:

If you scroll down to ‘Package Parts’, you’ll find the source code I use.

I am currently experiencing one problem; when a player ‘morphs’ into another R15 character, it will occasionally kill them. This is a big problem as I can not afford to have the player die at all.

You can test out the problem yourself here: Guest World Main Scripts - Roblox (You normally have to morph 5 or so times for it to kill you)

My question is, how can I prevent it completely from killing the player whilst changing packages?

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Applying the R15 Package Part occassionally kills my NPC
The Humanoid's 80/20 features should be ported to Lua
#2

Clone made a nice model for this

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#3

I’ve seen that too, but my morphing system is currently based around the wiki’s method, so I’d prefer to try and solve that before scrapping it completely

#4

Inside Clone’s model, there is code that does exactly what you want

humanoid:SetStateEnabled(Enum.HumanoidStateType.Dead, false)

#5

The reason this kills players is because the head is temporarily disconnected from the UpperTorso. I tried setting the ‘Dead’ state to false and then disconnecting the head, and I still died by changing Part0 of the neck joint to false.

There’s more the script could be doing to make death less likely or null, but this line alone doesn’t prevent it.

You could try using BuildRigFromAttachments, but I don’t know if that would solve the issue if players dying.

Really this feels like humanoids just being annoying, once again, due to the lack of control we have over them.

#6

If the humanoid tries to die and fails, it will just automatically die once you enable death again. Even if your configuration is complete when you enable it.

#7

Sadly, as Extuls explains, that doesn’t prevent the humanoid from dying.

#8

How would I apply this to the code from the wiki?

#9

It’s basically a function for humanoids that does what the wiki example of the function does. The difference is that rather than finding all the different attachments you need to connect and running them through the function, you just run the function once after swapping out the body parts, and it finds all the attachments for you and attaches them.

#10

Imo, if you’re not looking at Clone’s model, which works and I’ve used it to make a R15 morph, then you’re trying to reinvent the wheel.

#11

Clone’s model (at least when I used it 2 months ago) has a fix in for this. It’s been talked about many times on other posts, but since this isn’t a member OP I can’t link to those posts for ForeverHD.

#12

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.

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Are there any ways to swap Character models without certain LocalScripts resetting?
#13

Thanks, Ill have a go at doing this now