Help with Character Switcher

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#1

Hello Everyone! I’m making right now Puzzle game and I have question how to make Character Switcher.

  1. What do you want to achieve? I want to make character chooser. for example I have 3 raccoons and I want to make so player can switch raccoons, and if player choosed Raccoon 2 when he is on Raccoon 1, then it’s saving position of Raccoon 1.

  2. What is the issue? I’ve already made first version of it, but I have a lot of bugs, for example in LocalScript I have raccoonPlaying local, and I have checker that checks if player already playing on this Raccoon, but it’s not changing at all. And I have second bug that it’s not saving raccoons position in table.

  3. What solutions have you tried so far? I didn’t find any solutions and no one asking about it, or maybe asking but I didn’t find.

Server Script:

local rs = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local remote = rs.Remotes.Events.Chooser

remote.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(plr,char,cf)
	local newChar = rs.Characters[char]:Clone()
	if game.StarterPlayer:FindFirstChild("StarterCharacter") then
		game.StarterPlayer.StarterCharacter:Destroy()
	end
	newChar.HumanoidRootPart.Anchored = false
	newChar.Name = "StarterCharacter"
	newChar.Parent = game.StarterPlayer
	plr:LoadCharacter()
	
	newChar.PrimaryPart.CFrame = cf
end)

Local Script:

local raccoonPos = {
	["1"] = CFrame.new(13.348, 2.35, -13.243),
	["2"] = CFrame.new(-29.027, 2.35, -1.142)
}
local raccoonPlaying = 1

local plrs = game:GetService("Players")
local plr = plrs.LocalPlayer
local char = plr.Character or plr.CharacterAdded:Wait()

local rs = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local characters, remote = rs.Characters, rs.Remotes.Events.Chooser

local btns = script.Parent
btns["1"].Activated:Connect(function()
	if raccoonPlaying == 1 then
		warn("Already choosed!")
	else
		raccoonPlaying = 1
		raccoonPos["2"] = char.PrimaryPart.CFrame
		remote:FireServer("Raccoon1", raccoonPos["1"])
	end
end)
btns["2"].Activated:Connect(function()
	if raccoonPlaying == 2 then
		warn("Already choosed!")
	else
		raccoonPlaying = 2
		raccoonPos["1"] = char.PrimaryPart.CFrame
		remote:FireServer("Raccoon2", raccoonPos["2"])
	end
end)

I don’t have any errors in output, so if someone can help, that would be really appreciated! Thanks.

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#2

Maybe because you started with 1 and not 0? So if thats the case then the code reads like its never gonna fire the remote

#3

What do you mean about that? Read the script properly. It’s just a local

#4

Oh my bad. So actually in this case you will have to put the warn in the else setting it to 1 and the the other part of the script to detect the player and change his position

#5

Remove this and set plr.Character to newChar

#6

I don’t see any plr.Character

charrs

#7

Character is a property of plr

#8

Umm, it’s didn’t fixed any bugs that I have. But, now it’s not changing the characters.

#9

Remove plr:LoadCharacter() and parent newChar to workspace

#10

It’s even got worse, my camera stopped working

#11

Idk, if you did everything I said it should be right, can you show me your updated code?

#12

Sure.

local rs = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local remote = rs.Remotes.Events.Chooser

remote.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(plr,char,cf)
	local newChar = rs.Characters[char]:Clone()
	newChar.HumanoidRootPart.Anchored = false
	newChar.Name = "StarterCharacter"
	newChar.Parent = game.StarterPlayer
	
	plr.Character = newChar
	newChar.PrimaryPart.CFrame = cf
	
	warn("Choosed")
end)
#13

Set the parent after you have set the player’s character.

#14

Okay, thanks, it’s changing character but It’s not changing the raccoonPlaying

#15

Hmm… I have a theory on what might be going on. Where is this local script located?

#16

In the GUI where the buttons located
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#17

What is happening is that when you are morphing into a new character, you are being respawned and so the ScreenGui and its descendants are resetting.

Just turn off ResetOnSpawn on the ScreenGui and you should be good :slight_smile:

#18

Thanks it’s working now! I need only to make saving position.

#19

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