HumanoidDescription from UserID is not returning all the owned emotes

[Dogutsune (Dogu)]

The bug (or issue) doesn’t return all the emotes when using HumanoidDescription:GetEmotes() on Players:GetHumanoidDescriptionFromUserId().
It only return emotes that are equipped by the player.

I noticed this today when using this method to load emotes for my custom R15.
I asked DevForum earlier for a workaround.
I tested this with script few times and decided it is in fact a bug.
Bug happens on actual site, by using script provided under

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I recommend to put this in workspace or ServerScriptService.
You need to join the game with your R15 rig on.
You will be able to see the inconsistency.
A test server script:

local players = game:GetService("Players")

local function PlayerJoined(player)
	local function Update(character)
		local desc = character:WaitForChild("Humanoid").HumanoidDescription
		print("== DESCRIPTION OF CHARACTER ==")
		for i,v in pairs(desc:GetEmotes()) do
			print(i,v[1])			
		end
		print("== DESCRIPTION FROM USERID ==")
		local desc2 = players:GetHumanoidDescriptionFromUserId(player.UserId)
		for i,v in pairs(desc2:GetEmotes()) do
			print(i,v[1])			
		end
	end
	player.CharacterAdded:Connect(Update)
	if player.Character then Update(player.Character) end
end

players.PlayerAdded:Connect(PlayerJoined)

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My thread about issue can be seen there:

HumanoidDescription:GetEmotes(), but for all owned emotes?

Hi! So my game has a custom R15 rig (for aesthetic and texturing purposes) with the use of StarterCharacter and I’d love to allow players to use emotes they own on the actual site. In normal games, you can use all the owned emotes by chatting their name. "/e power blast" should work flawlessly. In the test game, it sadly doesn’t work. I noticed HumanoidDescription:GetEmotes() is limited, because it only gets equipped emotes. Yep. Not the whole emote list. Just ones you have equipped. I’m n…

[TheGamer101]

I think this might not strictly be a bug, when loading all the Emotes we have to load this information from a users inventory and depending on how many emotes they have this is done in a paged request (pages of X Emotes are loaded per request).

I don’t think we would add this to HumanoidDescription because it would add more requests that are not necessarily desired and make the behavior a bit unclear as to how the Emotes are added to the HumanoidDescription.

This does seems like a missing feature though. I think we should expose the internal EmotesPages Instance so that developers can easily load the Emotes for a player themselves.

I’ll file a ticket for this but I’m not sure when it will be addressed.