Help with respawnable mesh character

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#1

  1. What do you want to achieve? A character selection screen that respawns the character as a new custom character.

  2. What is the issue? Getting an error saying “Trying to index character with nil”

  3. What solutions have you tried so far? Changing how the character is referenced, such as

local player = Players.LocalPlayer or game:GetService("Players")
local character = player.Character

Furthermore, I have tried premade default morphs that do not respawn the player. Using these breaks all touch interests, which makes most things impossible to interact with. However, click detectors do work.

The character I am trying to use is a mesh character, which has a humanoid and an invisible Roblox dummy inside. The character is basically an animated mesh skin over the default Roblox character.

Below is the script:

local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")

local morphButton = script.Parent
local morphModel = ReplicatedStorage.C

local function respawnAsMorph()
	local player = game:GetService("Players")
	local character = player.Character

	-- Remove the current character
	if character then
		character:Destroy()
	end

	-- Clone and spawn the morph model
	local morphClone = morphModel:Clone()
	morphClone.Parent = workspace
	player.Character = morphClone
end

morphButton.MouseButton1Click:Connect(respawnAsMorph)
#2

Try this:

local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")

local player = Players.LocalPlayer

local morphButton = script.Parent
local morphModel = ReplicatedStorage.C

local function respawnAsMorph()
	-- Clone and set the morph model as character
	local morphClone = morphModel:Clone()
	morphClone.Parent = workspace
	player.Character = morphClone

	morphClone:SetNetworkOwner(player)
end

morphButton.MouseButton1Click:Connect(respawnAsMorph)
#3

This spawns in the character, but I am getting the same error here:

To clarify, it spawns the character as a new part basically. Cannot control it.

#4

I’ve got this script now:

local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")

local player = Players.LocalPlayer

local morphButton = script.Parent
local morphModel = ReplicatedStorage.C

local function respawnAsMorph()
	-- Clone and set the morph model as character
	local morphClone = morphModel:Clone()
	morphClone.Parent = workspace
	player.Character = morphClone
end

morphButton.MouseButton1Click:Connect(respawnAsMorph)

I can control the custom mesh character now but it’s focused on the normal character. It also teleports the character incorrectly. Is there a way to set the humanoid to the mesh character?

#5

I believe this may be a Roblox issue where morphs cannot touch parts, even with a humanoid and canTouch on the humanoidRootPart, mesh, etc. I will be making a bug report on the matter.

#6

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