Problems with rescaling custom Character

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#1

I’m working on a game, and I added a GUI that lets you rescale your character. The starter character is a robot with a custom bottom.

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The character is rigged up so it works with R15 avatar animations without a problem. The good thing about R15 is that all I need to do to rescale the character is by changing the values inside the humanoid (BodyDepthScale, BodyWidthScale, HeadScale, etc.). I just scaled these factors, but this was what happened when I called it to be small (0.5x) and big (2x)
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Normally the joints should fix themselves and also if you’re wondering AutomaticScaling is enabled.
Is there a solution to this problem?

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#2

You can iterate through the motor joints in your character and adjust their offsets by some scale percentage.

local motors = {} --add all the character's motor6Ds to this
local scalePercent = 0.5

for _, motor in pairs(motors) do
    motor.C0 = CFrame.new((motor.C0.Position * scalePercent)) * (motor.C0 - motor.C0.Position)
    motor.C1 = CFrame.new((motor.C1.Position * scalePercent)) * (motor.C1 - motor.C1.Position)
end
#3

It works until you try to change your size. That’s when things go back to the way it was until you go back to the biggest scale

#4

What do you mean? I dont understand.

#5

When I change the size it works. However, when I change the scale again then it goes back to breaking again. This is especially after i select the biggest scale. Then smaller scale becomes broken again

#6

You can store the original scale in a variable, like so:

local motors = {} --add all the character's motor6Ds to this
local offset = {}

for i, motor in pairs(motors) do
    offset[i] = {motor.C0, motor.C1}
end

local function scale(scalePercent)
    for i, motor in pairs(motors) do
        local baseC0, baseC1 = unpack(offset[i])
        motor.C0 = CFrame.new((baseC0.Position * scalePercent)) * (baseC0 - baseC0.Position)
        motor.C1 = CFrame.new((baseC1.Position * scalePercent)) * (baseC1 - baseC1.Position)
    end
end
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#7

yeah, i realized that was the problem and it fixed it