[Portal] Issues Replicating Character CFrames to Viewports

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The way I dealt with tools was simply using .DecendantAdded and .DecendantRemoving events. Tools get parented between Backpack and Character, so they fire DescendantAdded when you equip and DescendantRemoving when you unequip.

This way, you don’t need to poll every single character every single frame! Just handle them when the events fire. This method is nice cuz it’ll handle other things being added to the character too, such as hats or even custom armor meshes.

For deaths, you can simply reuse the dead body parts for the respawned character. This means you don’t need to recreate it, you just move them from the floor back up into the character.

Edit: Made a functional example

Using my [Open Source] ViewportFrame Handler, I whipped together what you’ve asked for.

local ViewportHandler = require(script.ViewportHandler)

local VF = game.Players.LocalPlayer:WaitForChild("PlayerGui"):WaitForChild("ScreenGui").ViewportFrame
	VF.CurrentCamera = workspace.CurrentCamera

local VF_H = ViewportHandler.new(VF)


local pHs = {} --player handlers

game.Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(plr)
	if pHs[plr] then
		pHs[plr]:Destroy() -- Clear old body
	end
end)

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr) -- Setup players that join later
	
	--Initial
	local char = plr.Character or plr.CharacterAdded:Wait()
	local hum = char:WaitForChild("Humanoid",3)
	
	if hum then wait() -- wait otherwise we run this before the meshes load properly
		pHs[plr] = VF_H:RenderHumanoid(char)
	end
	
	--Future
	plr.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(char)
		local hum = char:WaitForChild("Humanoid",3)
	
		if hum then wait() -- wait otherwise we run this before the meshes load properly
			if pHs[plr] then
				pHs[plr]:Destroy() -- Clear old body
			end
			pHs[plr] = VF_H:RenderHumanoid(char)
		end
	end)
	
end)

wait(1) -- Let players load in

for i,plr in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do -- Setup players in game
	spawn(function() -- Run in parallel since each can yield from the :Wait()
		
		
		--Initial
		local char = plr.Character or plr.CharacterAdded:Wait()
		local hum = char:WaitForChild("Humanoid",3)
		
		if hum then wait() -- wait otherwise we run this before the meshes load properly
			pHs[plr] = VF_H:RenderHumanoid(char)
		end
		
		--Future
		plr.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(char)
			local hum = char:WaitForChild("Humanoid",3)
		
			if hum then wait() -- wait otherwise we run this before the meshes load properly
				if pHs[plr] then
					pHs[plr]:Destroy() -- Clear old body
				end
				pHs[plr] = VF_H:RenderHumanoid(char)
			end
		end)
		
	end)
end

Everything is handled inside the module, you just tell it what you want it to do!

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