What do you mean remove it? You could just set the players character to be nil i think
Do you have an example of what you mean?
By remove, i.e they dont show up and can’t control that character
Ye so you can just do
game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
player.Character = nil
end)
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Alright, I guess this is the first step, bare with me having a go now 
I’ve actually just tried this code, and it doesn’t seem to work
Try just disabling Players.CharacterAutoLoads.
Where do you do that? In a script?
It’s a property of Players.
Yes, what you want to do is possible, and commonplace. Player.Character has to be a Model, it’s a typed C++ property, but it does not need to contain a Humanoid Instance. There are lots of games where your character is a vehicle, a block, or something else it makes little sense to have a humanoid in. Generally though, without the Humanoid, you do have a lot of extra work to do, because all of the Roblox player scripts (controls and cameras) are for a Humanoid-based avatar. You need to roll your own camera and input control, or fork and hack the player scripts to remove dependency on the Humanoid.
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Hmmm, do you know if there is any guides as such out there about it?
Not sure if there are any guides, but Chickyoid comes to mind when thinking of a non-humanoid oriented character system.
Chickyoid can be found here.
A player doesn’t need to include a humanoid, but it’s a lot easier if it does. You’re going to lose a lot of useful code and avatar clothing. But if you don’t care about that, you can put a character model named “StarterCharacter” into StarterPlayer service to spawn as that model. From there you will have to code input detection for WASD and spacebar + mobile inputs. To get animations, the humanoid animator object can be replaced for a AnimationController. Then you have to add your own custom health system, and a couple more things. So it’s a pretty big endeavor
Yeah, essentially I have custom blender models which are proving MASSIVELY difficult to turn into humanoids… That would be the better route, but after 7 days and nearly 100 youtube videos I’m starting to look for alternative ways of creating custom characters…
Rigging the model:
Non-humanoid animations:
Why are the custom models difficult to turn into humanoids? Should be a drag and drop thing no?
Maybe for some people, but i’ve tried a lot… there is all the animations in blender too which dont come across properly (flip the player upside down etc)
Roblox Studio is capable of doing many great things and it is possible to make a custom character without the humanoid, but I don’t understand why you would want that
you’ll have to script your own movement system
about camera you renderstep it to setting camera subject to custom char’s root
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why you want humanoidless player characters
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Replication is critical in most games. When a client experiences lag, there’s often a delay for player characters position (typically around 9 studs), which can significantly disrupt gameplay, especially in fast-paced games like melee combat or parkour systems. A humanoidless player character allows for more control over how the character replicates across the network, reducing the delay and improving responsiveness.
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Humanoids are double-edged swords, While humanoids have pre-built animations and movement systems, they can be limited, they also have interesting… physics, using humanoidless player characters just offer more stuff when it comes to customizing
still its not needed though but yeah
(YES I KNOW THIS POST IS A YEAR OLD BUT ehhh… just wanted to answer that)
The character property only needs to be a model, no humanoid is needed. If you cannot use a humanoid in your model due to certain specifications you’d have to recode everything about the movement, platform standing and such. Setting network ownership, calculating when the character is grounded etc. However if you just want to change the movement and states you can use the new physics controllers and get the basics while still not being restricted to roblox default humanoid code