I have been playing around with character scaling and I have an issue where hats and hair and various other character attachments are not scaling properly. Whats interesting is that the player themselves never sees their own issues, but they do see other players scaling issues.
How to fix?
example:
Can you describe the process you take to create the accessories and add them to characters? Most particularly who (client or server) is doing each part of the process. Accessories are very picky regarding replication. You should make sure you’re creating the accessory and adding it to characters all on the server.
Also make sure neither the accessory or the characters are anchored.
Additionally, scaling doesn’t work on accessories that consist of more than one part - but this shouldn’t be your issue.
These are the hats and so forth that players bring in on their avatars, I do not create them
It happens to their heir too
That’s interesting. Are you doing anything unconventional with characters? Spawning them yourself? Changing their parents?
not at all, just changing their BodyDepthScale, BodyHeightScale, BodyWidthScale, WalkSpeed and JumpPower
Where are you applying scaling? Server or client?
The script is a server script applied to player.Character.Humanoid
here is the script
local humanoid = player.Character.Humanoid
if humanoid then
if humanoid:FindFirstChild("BodyHeightScale") then
humanoid.BodyHeightScale.Value = potion.scale
end
if humanoid:FindFirstChild("BodyWidthScale") then
humanoid.BodyWidthScale.Value = potion.scale
end
if humanoid:FindFirstChild("BodyDepthScale") then
humanoid.BodyDepthScale.Value = potion.scale
end
if humanoid:FindFirstChild("HeadScale") then
humanoid.HeadScale.Value = potion.scale
end
humanoid.WalkSpeed = defaultWalkSpeed * potion.walk
humanoid.JumpPower = defaultJumpPower * potion.jump
end
I can’t seem to reproduce this. Can you make and share a simplified file that reproduces this issue?
I can start working on that, but first I want to check you understood my OP. the player themselves cannot see this issue, only other can. You will need multiple people to see it.
In other words, a player can only see the scaling issue on other players. To yourself, you avatar always looks fin.
I understand the issue. Your images are plenty sufficient to show the problem.
OK cool, will start working on it now, thanks
@qqtt991
testScale.rbxl (28.0 KB)
Heres an image, we just reproduced the issue just now. Here is how I looked to another player:
and here is how I look to myself:
Another image from a mobile device has my hair inside my back and glasses behind my head
Looking into this file has lead me to a similar conclusion as @Maximum_ADHD.
This seems to be caused by changing the scaling values too quickly, one after each other. If you add wait(1) between each if block in characterScale.initializeScale() in the CharacterScale module, the issue no longer occurs.
Obviously this isn’t the optimal solution for a game.
OK so i need a 1 second wait between each of BodyDepthScale, BodyHeightScale, BodyWidthScale?
Thats a long wait between each one. Will try it now
You can get away with just wait(), but there is a noticeable delay unfortunately.
I frequently see issues with manipulating character scale values too quickly.
I’ll put together a thread for this since I can’t find one for this particular case.
So yeah, i added a delay of 1 and also .1 and in both cases I still got the problems
besides it is very bad looking to see all the scales change that way.
Actually, it looks like you’re doing this before the character has even fully spawned. You need to use CharacterAdded. This resolves the problem without any gross wait juggling.
I don’t think I’d call this a bug. It’s moreso undefined behavior.
In ServerHandler, make the following changes to the characterScale.initializeScale(player) line.
player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(char)
characterScale.initializeScale(player) -- this handles settign up the player for scaling events as well as setting initial scale
end)
