Player.Character:PivotTo(CFrame)/:MoveTo(Vector3) not Working

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So, I’m working on a spawn script that choses a random model’s BasePart and sets the characters position to it.

I’ve noticed despite adding safeties like Character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart") it doesn’t make PivotTo or MoveTo work on the character.

The character just sits on top of the SpawnLocation.

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)
	print("PlayerAdded!")
	Player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(Character)
		print("CharacterAdded!")
		Character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")
		print("RootPart!")
		local ChosenGuideModel = GuideModelList[math.random(1, #GuideModelList)]
		local TargetCFrame = ChosenGuideModel.PrimaryPart.CFrame
		Character:PivotTo(TargetCFrame)
		print("MoveTo!", TargetCFrame)
	end)
end)

When this is ran, I get this output:

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Not sure if I’m missing something here but I do remember vividly that this used to be a functional thing.

I’ve also tried adding Player.CharacterAppearanceLoaded:Wait() which didn’t work.
I’ve noticed that adding a wait(1) sometimes works sometimes doesn’t but it’s not a solution I’m entirely happy with.

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Have you tried waiting for target cframe part?

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As you can see, the output displays a complete CFrame.
The GuideModel is positioned before being parented to workspace aswell.

At the very minimum, the CFrame value outputted should not have my character sitting at the SpawnLocation.

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try adding waitforchild for humanoid

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Nothing changed so far.

303030

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What is it exactly doing?

is it not teleporting?

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No teleporting, my character sits at the SpawnLocation on the Baseplate instead of being ontop of the target part.

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8

Sitting is likely the problem
force the character to jump before trying

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Added Character.Humanoid.Jump = true after Character:WaitForChild("Humanoid") still no change.

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Try editing sitting property

also could I see the full script?

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Not needed, you can remove the local variables and fill in a CFrame value for PivotTo

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)
	print("PlayerAdded!")
	Player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(Character)
		print("CharacterAdded!")
		Character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
		Character.Archivable = true
		print("RootPart!")
		Character:PivotTo(CFrame.new(-100, 0, 100))
		print("MoveTo!")
	end)
end)

I have this as a script inside ServerScriptService.

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I don’t think anyone can figure this out without the rest of the code

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I mean the one I just provided that has no reference to any other code breaks the same by itself.
So I’m not sure what to tell you.

I have no other client code that is messing with the character nor server code.

14

Could you setup a demo place?

: )

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example.rbxl (34.4 KB)

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This behavior just got even weirder my friend.

I added a repeat until with a magnitude check and it passed the repeat but still I showed up at the SpawnLocation this may be a bug report in the making.

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)
	print("PlayerAdded!")
	Player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(Character)
		print("CharacterAdded!")
		Character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")
		print("RootPart!")
		local TargetCFrame = CFrame.new(-100, 0, 100)
		repeat
			Character:PivotTo(TargetCFrame)
		until (Character.HumanoidRootPart.Position - TargetCFrame.Position).Magnitude <= 10
		print("MoveTo!", TargetCFrame)
	end)
end)
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This worked for me

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)
	print("PlayerAdded!")
	Player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(Character)
		print("CharacterAdded!")
		Character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")
		print(Character.HumanoidRootPart.Position)
		Character.Archivable = true
		print("RootPart!")
		task.wait()
		print(Character.HumanoidRootPart.Position)
		Character.HumanoidRootPart:PivotTo(CFrame.new(-100, 0, 100))
		print(Character.HumanoidRootPart.Position)
		print("MoveTo!")
	end)
end)
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Huh. When using inside serverscript, it doesn’t work. When placed inside localscript like this (parented to game.StarterPlayer.StarterPlayerScripts), it works

local LocalPlayer = game.Players.LocalPlayer
print("Player added!")
LocalPlayer.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(chr)
	print("Character added!")
	chr:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")
	print("HumanoidRootPart added")
	chr:PivotTo(CFrame.new(0, 1, 1000))
end)

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I see that for some strange reason the server sends the signals before the client.

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Yeah I feel like this behavior that I’m dealing with wasn’t intended.
I’m surprised no one brought it up.

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The client controls the character
perhaps it is being overridden by the client as how soon it is ran on the server
but that is the client so it works