Preventing Errors When Removing Character

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#1

  1. What do you want to achieve?

    I am making a custom camera system in which there is no need for the default character. I would like to cleanly remove the player’s character, however this cannot be done without destroying all children of the baseplate. (For more context, visit this earlier post: How can I delete the player character? - #36 by neweve2323). If there is a way to do this correctly then that is far preferred, but if not I would just like to make the players character an anchored part without the “Health” and “Animate” scripts.

  2. What is the issue?

    I have been able to achieve the latter solution listed above but I still receive infinite yield warnings from the server and such. This is definitely not a huge issue that affects gameplay in any way, I’m just open to better ways to do this.

  3. What solutions have you tried so far?

  • Deleting Character when player joins: destroys all children of baseplate
  • Setting StarterCharacter: still has Health and Animate scripts
  • Deleting scripts inside StarterCharacter: still yields errors such as "Infinite yield possible on ‘Torso’ because the StarterCharacter does not have such an instance
  • Banging my head against the wall

Thank you so much! :))

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#2

Just spitballing but you can set the Player.Character value. Maybe try setting it to something else or nil? Then you should be able to delete the character.

local ps = game:GetService("Players")
ps.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
     local character = plr.Character
     plr.Character = nil
     character:Destroy()
end)
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#3

you can go to settings and disable Character auto load

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#4

Where would this setting be located? Does it need to be done via script?

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#5

it’s either on workspace or on starter player or starter character folder
look into their properties

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#6

The most similar setting to the one described is “LoadCharacterAppearance”, and when it is disabled the player spawns as a dummy.

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#7

Since you are setting it to nil previous to destroying it, it does not destroy it I believe.

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#8

If the problem is an infinite yield, simply add a timeout in the second parameter, then return in the function if the variable containing the character instance is nil.
(Assuming you are checking for the character in a function)

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#9

These are uneditable scripts embedded in Roblox that produce the errors.

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#10

I think i’ll go bang my head against a wall for a bit too and think

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#11

real man, real. again if it can’t be helped its literally fine, theres a ton of stuff i need to work on in the meantime

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#12

the character variable is the character model loaded into memory. it’s not Player.Character.

#13

Ah, sorry, I was not clear. I tested the code previous to sending that, and it unfortunately did not fix it. I probably should have said that in addition to my speculation as to why it did not work as intended.