How do i change player character without the old one being deleted?

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#1

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Changing characters without making the old one destroy itself…

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I cant figure out a reason to how i would do it.

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Tried messing around in studio and asking ppl.

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Im trying to change a players character without the old one deleting (would be bad if i clone it cuz if the player should play a smooth animation the whole time it would 100% “lag” after its cloned and the animation played again)

Is there some way i can disable this?

#2

I was making a test ride and simply moving impornant things from your character to old character, and removing accesories, shirts, shirt graphics from old character and moving those from new to old.
To make it easier use for loops and :IsA().

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#3

just writing this off the cuff…don’t expect it to run without errors, but it should get you in the right direction :+1:

In server:

local cachedCharacters = game.ReplicatedStorage:FindFirstChild("CachedCharacters")
if cachedCharacters == nil then
    cachedCharacters = Instance.new("Folder")
    cachedCharacters.Name = "CachedCharacters"
    cachedCharacters.Parent = game.ReplicatedStorage
end

local function onPlayerAdded(player)
       local character = player:WaitForChild("Character",10)
       local root = character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart",10)
       if cachedCharacters:FindFirstChild(player.Name) == nil then
           character.Archivable = true --required to clone the character
           local storedCopy = character:Clone()
           character.Archivable = false
           storedCopy.Name = player.Name --i think this is redundant?
           storedCopy.Parent = cachedCharacters
       end
end

game.Players.OnPlayerAdded:Connect(onPlayerAdded)

Now the following should work in any script, local or server

local function getOriginalOutfit(player)
     return game.ReplicatedStorage.CachedCharacters:FindFirstChild(player.Name)
 end
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#4

I just changed the parent of the character instantly after it gets deleted (because its not garbage collected)

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