Problems with Replication

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1

I have a humanoid model that I parent to the workspace, and I give NetworkOwnership of all parts in it to the Player, and I also add an animator inside the model’s humanoid. But when I play an animation on that animator it doesn’t replicate to other players.

Animations[FighterModel] = FighterHumanoid.Animator:LoadAnimation(script.WalkAnimation)

for _, Part in pairs(FighterModel:GetDescendants()) do
		if Part:IsA('BasePart') then
			while not Part:IsDescendantOf(workspace) do
				task.wait(0.1)
			end
			
			Part:SetNetworkOwner(Player)
			PhysicsService:SetPartCollisionGroup(Part, 'Fighter')
			Part.Massless = true
		end
	end
2

It does replicate when the model is parented to the Player’s character, but I don’t want to do that because of some weird bugs that happen because of it (Flinging and Player “fusing” with the other model). So I want to know if there is a way to make it replicate with it just being parented to workspace.

3

You can play the animation locally for ALL PLAYERS if you can just use a state machine on the server
And all other players will have their own script to play the animation for the jet depending on which state is the jet on.

4

So if the model isn’t parented to the Player’s Character, I’m forced to make manually replicate animations?

5

Is there a reason you’re giving a player network ownership? This should all be executable from server side code.

6

I dont want to check every frame to either play or stop the animation, would be very bad for performance. So I’m giving the player network ownership so I can do it on the client and have it replicate to the server.

7

NetworkOwnership only allows the client to physically manipulate a part. Meaning they can’t execute code on or animate the part.

8

Weird thing is that it works when I parent the model to the Player’s character but not when I parent it to the workspace. I guess it’s just the way they made it and there’s nothing I can do.