CharacterMesh remover not working

IConsumeCheddar · November 25, 2021, 6:30pm

So I’m making a charactermesh remover script for my goofy ragdoll game, and I can’t see why it doesn’t work. Any obvious stupid mistakes I made?

Code:

local Players = game:GetService('Players')

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)
	Player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(Character)
		repeat wait() until Character
		local charChildren = Character:GetChildren()
		
		for _, thing in pairs(charChildren) do
			if thing:IsA("CharacterMesh") then
				thing:Destroy()
				warn('found CharacterMesh, name is '.. thing.Name) -- this doesnt print out either
			end
		end
	end)
end)

Yes, this post is a duplicate, but the other post doesn’t say how they fixed it…

IConsumeCheddar · November 25, 2021, 6:32pm

ChildAdded makes no difference either?

Winbloo · November 25, 2021, 6:38pm

try using :GetDescendants() instead of :GetChildren() (not sure of the hierarchy u have btw)

IConsumeCheddar · November 25, 2021, 6:39pm

The hierarchy is the same as all standard R6 characters. The character mesh is just slapped into the character model, so that wouldn’t make any difference

a1etheia · December 6, 2021, 1:09pm

Are there any errors? I also recommend putting the warn before thing:Destroy()

IConsumeCheddar · December 6, 2021, 8:05pm

It just says “Something tried to destroy CharacterMesh in IConsumeCheddar, current parent is nil”, or something along the lines of that. I haven’t bothered with the script in like, well, 10 days so I forgot the exact error.

IConsumeCheddar · December 12, 2021, 11:04pm

Found a fix

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
	plr.CharacterAppearanceLoaded:Connect(function(char)
		for _, v in pairs(char:GetDescendants()) do
			if v:IsA("CharacterMesh") then
				v:Destroy()
			end
		end
	end)
end)