How do I load a custom character onto the player on join?

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#21

this is really inefficient, like uri said just clone the character and set the player’s character using Player.Character

#22

Then try the morph script as toadle suggested

#23

Instead of using a StarterCharacter clone the model and set it to be players character manually (basically just make your own spawning function)

#24

That just made me spawn like this

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#25

Try this script as toadle suggested

#26

Are you in first person or is your character just not there?

You will have to set the character position and parent manually with this method, just:

character.PrimaryPart.Position= --put your spawn position here, if it's on the floor you need a Y offset
character.Parent= workspace
#27

try practicing Model:PivotTo(CFrame) instead of that

#28

Also works, probably makes more sense too, just force of habit

#29

Not there, Also when you DO move it to the character, its there but its just infront of your character instead of you being the character.

#30

Can you show the piece of code that spawns in the character? I’ve not had that happen

#31

Here (its located in the StarterCharacterScripts so it does that when they spawn)
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#32

You can’t change the player character from a LocalScript, must be done on a server script

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
local newCharacter= --[<code where you get the desired character]]:Clone()

newCharacter.Name= player.Name --Not necessary just for cleanness sake
newCharacter.PrimaryPart.Position= --The spawn position (not the player's old character position)

player.Character= newCharacter
newCharacter.Parent=workspace

end)

This code doesn’t account for when the player dies, for that just wrap it in a function and call the function when the player diea

#33

that was a server script, but ill try this instead

#34

It ended up loading for half a second then reloaded the original character

#35

Also the character in general is unanimated

#36

Ah, i mean it still didn’t work because because instead of setting the player.Character property you had a variable that held the character and then changed it to the newCharacter, you changed the variable instead of changing the actual property

#37

try this

local Players = game:GetService("Players")

local YourCustomCharacter = workspace:FindFirstChild("CustomChar") -- Change with your Character
local CustomHumanoid = YourCustomCharacter:FindFirstChildOfClass("Humanoid")

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
	local Char = plr.Character or plr.CharacterAdded:Wait()
	
	local Humanoid = Char:FindFirstChildOfClass("Humanoid")
	
	Humanoid:ApplyDescription(CustomHumanoid.HumanoidDescription,Enum.AssetTypeVerification.Default)
end)

make sure your custom character has Humanoid and HumanoidDescription as Humanoid’s Child

#38

Oh yeah, forgot about that, i think you have to go to the Players tab, and tick off CharacterAutoLoads for it to work, because Roblox will spawn the regular character while you’re setting it yourself

#39

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uhh…

#40

Ohh I’ll have to try that one, thanks.