HumanoidDescription.Face loads a blank decal

[c0rg_i (corgi)]

1. I want to get the player’s face from Players:GetHumanoidDescriptionFromUserId() and have it apply to a StarterCharacter

2. The HumanoidDescription.Face is not the ID to load the face decal.

3. I’ve searched the developer forums, some external sites, and tried finding a few other solutions

plr.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(chr)
	--cant use characterappearanceloaded for custom starter
	wait(.1)
	local head = chr:WaitForChild('Head')
	local bodycolors = chr:FindFirstChildOfClass("BodyColors")
	local humApp = game.Players:GetHumanoidDescriptionFromUserId(plr.UserId)
	humApp.Parent = script
 --where the issue happens
	head.face.Texture = basefaceurl..humApp.Face
	bodycolors.HeadColor3 = humApp.HeadColor
	humApp:Destroy()
	print("Loaded "..plr.Name.."'s face and head color")
end)

Example using the Check It face. (top is loaded from HumanoidDescription, bottom is loaded from rig creator)

Hopefully the devforum doesn’t give me radio silence this time. Please.

[NyrionDev (Nyrion)]

This looks like a decal id/image id problem. A solution you can try is using the thumbnail endpoint instead:

head.face.Texture = "rbxthumb://type=Asset&w=768&h=432&id="..humApp.Face

If that doesn’t work I’m afraid you will have to bruteforce the answer. Here’s an older post of mine that does that:

How would I convert a Image ID to a Decal ID?

The above reply will only make the image load, not fetch the decal ID. A solution to fetching the decal id is brute forcing by taking advantage of the fact that the decal id is the asset id, incremented by a small amount, usually less than 10. Here’s a solution that uses brute force to find the answer: local MarketplaceService = game:GetService("MarketplaceService") local assetId = 0 local lookAhead = 10 --check 10 ids ahead --The type checking is to make your life easier if you want to modi…

If that also doesn’t work, try changing assetId+i to assetId-i and retrying the bruteforce script.

[c0rg_i (corgi)]

The thumbnail endpoint solution worked. Thank you for your help.