Need help with changing character

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#1

When I test my manual charactering script, it changes their character, but leaves their old one. But when I try destroying their old character, their leftover one is the parameter for the player.CharacterAdded function. But then using player.Character messed a few things up the last time I tested, so I have no idea what to do. Thanks for any responses.

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#2

Could you provide the script for it?

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#3 
			local charged = game.ServerStorage.Characters["Charged Creeper"]:Clone()
			charged.Name = player.Name
			player.Character = charged

			charged.Parent = workspace
			
			wait()
			
			char:Destroy()

Edit: I spawn in the character to a spawn afterwards. Also, I have a character in StarterPlayer already, so I just put a randomizer to it to make it rarer

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#4

Have you tried removing your character before loading another one?

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#5

no, but how would I do that? Would I have to disable or destroy something when they die then put the charged creeper character on them when they respawn?

#6

You can use Player:RemoveCharacter() for this. When the player dies, their character isn’t removed, so the function can help for situations like this.

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#7

I would do some changes like :
1-using replicated storage.
2-using SetPrimaryPartCFrame and GetPrimaryPartCFrame to get the Cframe from the old model and setting it to the new model
3- idk how char is defined in that script but u can do:

local outdated=player.Character

then clone and set the new player.Character and destroy outdated (again idk if char is defines like that or not this is just for good measures…)

#8

This is how I normally change my characters, try it

local classNames = {"Accessory", "Shirt", "Pants", "ShirtGraphic", "BodyColors"}

function SetPlayerCharacter(Player , Character)
	for i, descendant in pairs(Player.Character:GetDescendants()) do
		if table.find(classNames, descendant.ClassName) or descendant:IsA("Decal") and descendant.Parent.Name == "Head" then
			descendant:Destroy()
		end
	end
		for i, descendant in pairs(Character:GetDescendants()) do
			if table.find(classNames, descendant.ClassName) then
				if descendant.ClassName == classNames[1] then
					local Clone = descendant:Clone()
					Clone.Handle:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("Weld").Part1 = Player.Character[tostring(descendant.Handle:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("Weld").Part1)] or Player.Character["Right Leg"][tostring(descendant.Handle:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("Weld").Part1)] or Player.Character["Left Leg"][tostring(descendant.Handle:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("Weld").Part1)]
					Clone.Parent = Player.Character
				else 
					descendant:Clone().Parent = Player.Character
				end
			elseif descendant:IsA("Decal") and descendant.Parent.Name == "Head" then
				descendant:Clone().Parent = Player.Character.Head
		end
	end
end
#9

you will need to change some lines though and you can add arms/legs to the table if you want it to be replaced aswell…(sorry for the late reply btw)

#10

Alright so what I probably want is to not respawn the player after they die in this case. This character has a rarity to it, so I can’t just put it in StarterPlayer. Also, char is defined in the player.CharacterAdded() function

#11

did my script work??? it doesnt respawn the play and works perfectly for me…

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#12

uh it isn’t a player character thing it’s a character I made, so it doesn’t have shirts or accessories

#13

so it wont place them, it will remove what the character has on and never replace them since your character doesn’t have them

#14

Well, maybe you can set Players.RespawnTime to math.huge and make a custom respawn script for normal players.

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#15

well that might cause more issues since what if a respawn script I find bugs occasionally and breaks the game? Idk when that’d ever happen