How would I go about setting the startercharacter for only ONE player?

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#1

So right now I have a character select system, and once the player chooses a character they morph into that specific player (the way this is done is by putting the model of that specific character in StarterPlayer with the name “StarterCharacter”, I think you see why this is a problem)

What this does is basically, if one player chooses a character, every other subsequent player will have that character too, I’ve searched several forums from doing it with player.Character = model (this was extremely glitchy as the animations wouldnt load and the camera would be buggy) to applying humanoiddescriptions (which is irrelevant to me because im using custom characters, not a specific player’s character)
Any help would be appreciated!

#2

set Player.Character to a clone of whatever character they choose

#3

Already did this, the camera wont get focused on the character (which isnt a big problem since i can set the camerasubject) but the animations wont load and its overall pretty buggy

#4

do the character models have an animate script in them?

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#5

If you’re working with vanilla Humanoid characters, then yes, manually setting the Character property will have unintended consequences that requires workarounds. I would recommend using Player:LoadCharacterWithHumanoidDescription() or Humanoid:ApplyDescription() instead. There is an entire article about creating your own HumanoidDescription here:

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#6

I’ve written up this LocalScript you can paste into StarterPlayerScripts that will fix the CameraSubject and animating issues if you do decide to manually set the Character property:

--!strict

local Players = game:GetService("Players")

local Player: Player = Players.LocalPlayer
local Camera: Camera = workspace.CurrentCamera

local function apply(character: Model): ()
	-- Wait until the character is in the workspace
	while not character:IsDescendantOf(workspace) do
		character.AncestryChanged:Wait()
	end
	
	-- Wait for the Humanoid (on Immediate signals,
	-- Humanoid may not exist after CharacterAdded)
	local humanoid: Instance? = character:WaitForChild("Humanoid", 3)
	
	-- Check if the Character is a custom one by
	-- checking if the CameraSubject is different
	-- since Roblox automatically does this for us
	if humanoid ~= nil and humanoid:IsA("Humanoid") and Camera.CameraSubject ~= humanoid then
		-- Apply the CameraSubject to the new Humanoid
		Camera.CameraSubject = humanoid
		
		-- If it contains an animate script, simply
		-- re-enabling it will run the Animate script
		-- as expected
		local animate: Instance? = character:FindFirstChild("Animate")
		
		if animate ~= nil and animate:IsA("LocalScript") then
			animate.Enabled = false
			animate.Enabled = true
		end
	end
end

-- Listen for CharacterAdded
Player.CharacterAdded:Connect(apply)

-- In case this LocalScript runs late, apply it
-- in case the server already applied a custom character
if Player.Character ~= nil then
	task.spawn(apply, Player.Character)
end
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#7

Wow i sure as hell look dumb now :skull:
Yeah uhh that was the problem i was overcomplicating myself thanks a ton

#8

Thanks a ton for the help too, I didnt really need the script just didnt realise that the character model needed to have an animate script inside it, I appreciate the effort a lot though