Modifying characters on the client

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So I have a bunch of characters inside ReplicatedStorage. I want to duplicate these on the client only, and put it in Workspace. However, when I put tools in said characters, and try to play animations on them, the animations simply don’t play. Is this actually a limitation by Roblox preventing you to do stuff like this to characters on the client only or is it some mistake with my code?

I am doing this on the client to make everything a lot smoother, preventing unnecessary things to be on the server like these characters as an example.

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Not a Roblox limitation.

It’s almost always because your cloned client NPC is missing proper animation setup.

Animations only play if the rig has:

  • Humanoid + Animator or
  • AnimationController + Animator

If that’s missing, :Play() does nothing.

Also:

  • Tools don’t behave properly on fake client-only characters (they’re designed for real server characters).
  • Client NPCs are fine visually, but tool + animation systems expect full character setups.

Make sure your cloned model has an Animator under either Humanoid or AnimationController, then load animations through that.h that.

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Pretty much, yes.

  • Client-only NPCs = visuals only, tools/animations can be unreliable
  • Server NPCs = tools + animations work properly and replicate correctly

So if you want normal Tool behaviour, put the characters on the server.

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This Alfiepro98234 is obviously using chatgpt

You can play animations on characters with tools 100% on the client without doing anything from the server

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i was suspecting that, a shame people are sad enough to use it

im gonna try it again and let you know if it works cuz maybe it was just a coding mistake then

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for whatever reason, creating/duplicating characters on the client makes the tool disappear? i even tried in a baseplate test place and it still happens so it cannot be a mistake by me

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update: i figured it out. if you wanna add a client tool to a client character, you also need to create a weld called “RightGrip”, add it to the RightHand, Part0 should be RightHand, Part1 should be the handle of the tool. i do not know why this isnt just done on the client but whatever thanks roblox