How do I convert a player's character to a pre-built model without using StarterCharacter or HumanoidDescription?

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#1

It’s in the title, how can I convert the player’s character to a model that was previously built before hand. Like say I have this model:

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How can I go about changing the player’s character model to this? How do I weld all the individual parts in the same desired places with precision in the script? How do I change all the body parts to the same color?
What’s the best way to doing this? I don’t want to use startcharacter or humanoid description because of its limitations, is there a better way or is humanoid description the only way to go?

#2

You could go into Players service and set it’s CharacterAutoLoad to false then when a player joins(PlayerAdded) do something like this

Player.Character = YOUR_MODEL

#3

This won’t make the character animated (or controllable) from what I believe.

#4

Also, from what I’ve seen character auto loads still loads a character just a grey avatar.

#5

To my knowledge he could do procedural animations or animate it then add the animation script from roblox

#6

CharacterAutoLoads doesn’t load your character or any character if set to false

#7

It would be simpler to just replace the body parts in the player’s character.

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#8

The CharacterAutoLoads Players property indicates whether Character s will respawn automatically. The default value is true .

If this property is disabled ( false ), players Characters will not spawn until the Player:LoadCharacter function is called for each Player - including when players join the game.

Notice it says respawn in the first paragraph and not just spawn. This means there could be some unintended behaviour.

#9

How would I go about doing that?

#10

First turn off LoadCharacterAppearance in StarterCharacter / StarterPlayer then add a script that one by one adds a body part from the model and then destroys the corresponding part on the player.

However there is a simpler way and that is to use HumanoidDescriptions (this only works if the model has no extra body parts), also may I ask why you don’t want to use StarterCharacter?

#11

Consider this post that I made a few days ago: