How to change custom character during game

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On your client side, you can use :FindFirstChildWhichIsA to get your model:

selectButton.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
    local model = location:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("Model")
    assert(model, "model does not exist for this location!")

    respawnEvent:FireServer(model.Name)
end)

On your server-side, I think you are making a misconception of what player.Character and player:LoadCharacter are supposed to do. .Character gives you the current character, and :LoadCharacter only respawns the character, nothing else is done.

The default control and camera scripts are not dependent on character changes like this, I would only be potentially worried about network ownership.

You should be able to just set player.Character directly on the server without having to use :LoadCharacter, but I am rather unfamiliar with the mechanics of loading a character through setting a property like this. I would believe it to be like so:

local function respawnPlayer(plr, modelName)
    local model = replicatedstorage.Characters:FindFirstChild(modelName)
    print("Model from server is", model)

    local oldModel = plr.Character
    local newModel = model:Clone()

    local oldCFrame = oldModel:GetPrimaryPartCFrame()

    plr.Character = newModel
    newModel.Parent = workspace -- [1] this follows current character loading behavior
    newModel:SetPrimaryPartCFrame(oldCFrame)
    oldModel:Destroy()
end
respawnEvent.OnServerEvent:Connect(respawnPlayer)

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