Player Character Respawn But Camera Stays At Death Points / Character Respawn Bug

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#1

If this doesn’t belong in scripting support please let me know below.

I don’t tinker with the camera or anything else with regards to the player character.

https://gyazo.com/e060126386611c78c744790d203d4a6c

The first time I spawn everything is fine
The second time I spawn I respawn but the camera is focused at my death
The third time I don’t respawn at all

I have no scripts to show as I said I didn’t tinker with the camera and don’t know what’s causing this issue.

I’ve searched the explorer for any possible virus scripts but there aren’t any.

Any support is appreciated thank you!

EDIT: I’ve also noticed after the second time, NPCS stop chasing me

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#2

It’s hard to say what the issue is with the little information given. but do you have characterautoloads off? Custom spawning not done properly can cause issues. Also, is your script ever assigning the player a character? (I.e. Player.Character = Model)

#3

Yea the problem is I can’t indentify the issue either, I’m going through most of my scripts and disabling them to see if that would do the trick but no luck so far.

CharacterAutoLoads is set to true as well as there is no custom characters. I do have a script that parents the player character to a folder called “Characters” upon respawn.

Here’s the contents:


Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)
	local Character = Player.Character or Player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
	repeat wait()
	Character.Parent = game.Workspace.World.Characters
	until Character.Parent == game.Workspace.World.Characters do end
	
	Modules["Datastore"].startData(Player)
	Modules["Datastore"].loadData(Player)
	Modules["Datastore"].generateObjInstances(Player)
	
	Modules["Character Loader"].loadCharacterTools(Player)

	--> Character Resetter
	Player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(Character)
		Character.Parent = game.Workspace.World.Characters
		Modules["Character Loader"].loadCharacterTools(Player)
	end)
end)

EDIT: I just found the issue! The issue lies in:

--> Character Resetter
	Player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(Character)
		Character.Parent = game.Workspace.World.Characters
		Modules["Character Loader"].loadCharacterTools(Player)
	end)

I don’t think it’s the loadCharacterTools since it just parents a tool to the player Backpack.

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#4

Changing the parent of the character shouldn’t matter though, as long as it’s a descendant of workspace.

#5

I’m having the same issue, and I am pretty sure that changing parent of the character actually make it glitchy sometimes. It even makes my character yellow for no reason or change it to all black with no accessories. This is super weird

#6

Hello everyone, today, I’ve came across this issue again and I’ve remembered I’ve posted a question on this on DevForum. I’ve took time to find a solution to this issue and now I want to post this solution to those who may also be having this issue.

The Problem

In both cases, when the character respawn, it is immediately re parented to a Folder known as “Entities”. This is to categorize and reduce iterations for NPC computing. The script may seem like so:

while Character and Character.Parent ~= game.Workspace.Entities do
	Character.Parent = game.Workspace.Entities
	RunService.Stepped:Wait()
end

The problem is in fact that I’m reparenting the character (seems like I’m doing it too quick for Roblox’s Camera script to detect causing the behavior above.

As some of us who’ve tried this may know, immediately reparenting the character with one line won’t always work. It may look like this:

local RunService = game:GetService("RunService")
game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)	
	local Character = Player.Character or Player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
	local Humanoid = Character:WaitForChild"Humanoid"
	Character.Parent = game.Workspace.Entities
	--while Character and Character.Parent ~= game.Workspace.Entities do
	--	Character.Parent = game.Workspace.Entities
	--	RunService.Stepped:Wait()
	--end
	
	Player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(Character)
		--wait(5)
		local Humanoid = Character:WaitForChild"Humanoid"
		Character.Parent = game.Workspace.Entities

	end)
end)

The Solution

The solution is to yield first, before iterating and parenting. You can either just manually add a wait(1~) near the top or implement that as the yield duration for iterating. A finished product would look something like this:

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)	
	local Character = Player.Character or Player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
	local Humanoid = Character:WaitForChild"Humanoid"
	
	while Character and Character.Parent ~= game.Workspace.Entities do
		wait(1)
		Character.Parent = game.Workspace.Entities
	end
	
	Player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(Character)
		local Humanoid = Character:WaitForChild"Humanoid"
		while Character and Character.Parent ~= game.Workspace.Entities do
			wait(1)
			Character.Parent = game.Workspace.Entities
		end
	end)
end)

Anyway, I just wanted to solve this issue that I had a while back and hopefully someone may find this information useful.

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