HumanoidDescription not loading the hair on a Dummy

[bostnm (ScriptKing)]

Hey! I was wondering what was happening in my Shop system. Mainly because whenever I load in a screen to preview it puts everything on correctly, but it doesn’t give the person hair? I think it has something to do with the dummy being in a viewport frame, because it works totally fine when I load it on the player.

Here is my code for loading the skin on:

    local object = viewportFrame.Dummy
	object.HumanoidRootPart.Position = Vector3.new(0, 0, 0)
	object.Parent = viewportFrame

	local viewportCamera = viewportFrame:FindFirstChildOfClass("Camera") or Instance.new("Camera")
	viewportFrame.CurrentCamera = viewportCamera
	viewportCamera.Parent = viewportFrame
	viewportCamera.CFrame = CFrame.new(Vector3.new(0, 2, 6), object.HumanoidRootPart.Position)
	
	if currentType.Value == "Emotes" then
		local anim = object.Humanoid:LoadAnimation(script.Parent.Animation) --object.Humanoid.Animation)
		anim.Priority = Enum.AnimationPriority.Action
		anim.Looped = true
		anim:Play()
		print("Heheh")
	elseif currentType.Value == "Skins" then
		game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage").Events.ChangeShopSkin:FireServer(object, itemsDict[currentType.Value][currentItem.Value].Name)
	end

events.ChangeShopSkin.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player, dummy, skinName)
	dummy.Humanoid:ApplyDescription(skins[skinName])
end)

Any ideas?

[Juicy_Fruit]

does the hair exist (in vpf) when you check your explorer?

[bostnm (ScriptKing)]

I checked and it is in explorer so it loads it, but I suppose doesn’t position it?

Also here is the properties menu for the hat if you need it

[Juicy_Fruit]

I would suggest manually applying the hair

perhaps after applying the humanoid description, try locating the hair and use

Humanoid:AddAccessory(HairObject)

or

Humanoid:AddAccessory(viewportFrame.Dummy:FindFirstChildOfClass("Accessory"))

also i can’t see the images, its broken on my end for some reason

idk why its not properly adding the accessory to begin with though.

[bostnm (ScriptKing)]

I found out that the hair only doesn’t appear when it is in a viewport frame? I have no idea why.

[Juicy_Fruit]

did my code snippet not help?

alternatively you could clone the hair object into the dummy manually rather than letting the humanoid description handle it and see how that goes

[bostnm (ScriptKing)]

I used your code in mine and nothing happened, I also tried cloning the hair manually, I honestly don’t know what to do at this point. Is it just a studio bug?

[Juicy_Fruit]

Is the dummy inside viewportframe i.e. in game.playergui or do you clone it from workspace (or etc) into the player’s gui on runtime?

[bostnm (ScriptKing)]

It remains in the viewport frame the whole time. Should I try cloning from workspace?

[Juicy_Fruit]

no, its proper that you have it in the playergui by default, as thats what i have on my own customization system too (i had bugs cloning it from workspace–related to accessories)

Is the hair a custom made accessory or is it from roblox catalog?

you also don’t have to do this but it could help by sending a demo file so i could test it, i can only eyeball it at this point since everything is in accordance to how it should be

[bostnm (ScriptKing)]

It’s straight from the catalog, it loads in from a humanoid description in server storage (with remote event) using the catalog ID.

[Juicy_Fruit]

another suggestion would be instead of passing the dummy as an object, let the server just access the dummy via player

snippet from my own code

EquipOnDummy.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player)
Designation = player.PlayerGui.Shop.ViewportFrame.ViewportFrame.WorldModel.Dummy

--add accessory manually or do humanoid desc
local AccessoryClone=Hair:Clone()
Designation.Humanoid:AddAccessory(AccessoryClone)
--...

also ignore viewportframe.viewportframe, its just the way i have the thing made, i have a frame called vpf and a vpf called vpf

@bostnm

[bostnm (ScriptKing)]

Alright, I’ll try this tomorrow when I can!

Wish me luck

[robloxvet33]

Can you mark this as the solution if it worked?