:Clone() not working in local script

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#1

I have absolutely no idea why this isn’t working. It functioned fine a while ago, however I changed a bit of code and now it doesn’t. It will run in a server script (with alterations to the player name of course), but not local.

local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local charac = workspace:WaitForChild(player.Name)
charac.Archivable = true


local clone = charac:Clone()
clone.Parent = workspace
clone.PrimaryPart = clone:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")
clone:MoveTo(Vector3.new(19.581, 3.15, 25.422))

The error I receive is Infinite yield possible on Workspace.Player1:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")'

the model of the player is copied, but it contains nothing

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#2

Instead use GetCharacterFromPlayer, It’s returning the player Object not the Actual Player’s Character.

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#3

player.Character doesn’t work either, with the same errors

#4

Oh, Do game.Workspace[player.Name]

#5

Roblox players have Archivable set to false, which prevents cloning from working. do Character.Archivable = true then clone the player. (Didn’t notice you already do, lol)

Oh, Do game.Workspace[player.Name]

For the love of god, please don’t… the LocalPlayer.Character variable exists for a reason and any objects named the same as the player might get caught which has caused issues for me

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#6

… do Character.Archivable = true then clone the player.

Above in the code snippet I’ve tried that, still nothing

#7

Try Character = CharacterAdded:Wait(), maybe the character can’t load in before it’s cloned

#8 
local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local character = player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
character.Archivable = true


local clone = character:Clone()
clone.Parent = workspace
clone.PrimaryPart = clone:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")
clone:MoveTo(Vector3.new(19.581, 3.15, 25.422))

even with this, I recieve errors that indicate the character is nil or has no descendants.
all other scripts but the local script are disabled

#9

trying the code as a startercharacter localscript seems to “work”, though it has missing cosmetics
you’ll have to wait for the appearance to load in, and if it’s not that i am out of ideas

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#10 
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
print('player exists')


local function playerAdded(player)
	player.CharacterAppearanceLoaded:Connect(function(character)
		print('loaded')
		character.Archivable = true


		local clone = character:Clone()
		clone.Parent = workspace
		clone.PrimaryPart = clone:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")
		clone:MoveTo(Vector3.new(19.581, 3.15, 25.422))
		print('clone moved')
	end)
end

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(playerAdded)
print('eof')

even when placed into StarterCharacterScripts, loaded isn’t printed

#11

I used this source code in the studio and it clones the model of a player correctly:

local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local charac = workspace:WaitForChild(player.Name)
charac.Archivable = true

local clone = charac:Clone()
if not clone:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart") then
	repeat
	    charac = workspace:FindFirstChild(player.Name)
		clone = charac:Clone()
		wait(0.1)
	until clone:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart")
end
clone.Parent = workspace
clone.PrimaryPart = clone:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart")
clone:MoveTo(Vector3.new(19.581, 3.15, 25.422))
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#13

that seems to work, however it doesn’t clone accessories and clothing

#14

It really does depend on how fast internet and computer you have since the studio might miss look some things. I tested my script and it does fully clone my character to the workspace. WaitForChild() has a second parameter that you can use for a timeout to wait even more time for specific things, this most of the time fix the problems as you might have.

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#15

I restarted my computer and it worked. maybe some ram issue that got flushed

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