Hats on NPC in Viewport?

[RaymondLWeston (Ray)]

I am creating a Character Creation menu and I’m running into a weird problem with hats and hair.

In my UI you click on a button to choose the NPC’s hair/beard/etc, but for some reason the accessory is not showing up when parented to the NPC via a script.

I can provide code if needed, but it’s a fairly straightforward problem and the code works as intended (parenting the hair to the NPC model in the Viewport) aside from the accessory not displaying for some reason.

I have tried deleting / refreshing the NPC as well, to no avail.

Any thoughts?

[collector]

Accessory | Documentation - Roblox Creator Hub

Feed me code

[RaymondLWeston (Ray)]

Here you go, I suppose. It’s not much besides what I said.

local function Initialize()
	Configuration.Gender.Value = "Male"
	Configuration.FirstName.Value = "RAYMOND"
	Configuration.LastName.Value = "WESTON"
	Configuration.HairColor.Value = Color3.fromRGB(88, 76, 71)
	Configuration.SkinColor.Value = Color3.fromRGB(250, 214, 194)
	Configuration.HairStyle.Value = hairFolder.Male["Hair-Male-0"]
	UpdateHairStyles()
	
	--Initialize Player Preview
	if Player and Player.Character then
		wait()
	else
		Player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
	end
	
	local Clone = game.ReplicatedStorage.CharacterMenuStorage.TemplateChar:Clone()
	Clone.Name = "PlrModel"
	Clone.Parent = CharacterViewport
	
	UpdateSkinColor()
	SkinColorButtons()
	HairStyleButtons()
	
	local CharCam = Instance.new("Camera")
	CharCam.Parent = CharacterViewport
	CharCam.CFrame = Clone.PrimaryPart.CFrame + Vector3.new(1, 1, -5)
	CharCam.CFrame = CFrame.lookAt(CharCam.CFrame.Position, Clone.PrimaryPart.Position)
	
	CharacterViewport.CurrentCamera = CharCam
end

local function UpdateHairStyle()
	local Char = CharacterViewport:FindFirstChildOfClass("Model")
	for _, hair in ipairs(Char:GetChildren()) do
		if hair:IsA("Accessory") and hair.AccessoryType == Enum.AccessoryType.Hair then
			hair:Destroy()
		end
	end
	local newHair = Configuration.HairStyle.Value:Clone()
	newHair.Handle.Color = Configuration.HairColor.Value
	newHair.Parent = Char
end

First code block sets up the viewport and some basic variables. Second code block is specifically what updates the hats.

I can confirm two things:

1. The NPC in the viewport updates properly. I have a separate function used to change the NPC’s skin tone, which works and updates as intended.
2. The accessory is properly parented to the NPC model. If I Ctrl+X that model and paste it somewhere else, the NPC displays properly with the accessory. It just doesn’t show or update in the Viewport itself, no matter what I do.

That’s about it. Like I said, nothing special here.

[RaymondLWeston (Ray)]

Fixed. It was a combination of multiple issues.

If anyone else comes across this thread, make sure you’ve put your NPC inside of a WorldModel inside of the Viewport, and make sure all your updates occur on the server side, not the client side.