Two characters welded together but one character isn't animating

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#1

I’m trying to weld two characters together, using Motor6D, and parent the connected character into the main character.

One character isn’t being animated unless I delete the Humanoid of the second character.

With Humanoid: [EXAMPLE]
Without Humanoid: [EXAMPLE]

Like I’ve shown, I’ve tried to delete the Humanoid of the second character and it fixes the animations. But, it removes the accessories and Humanoid form of the second character.
I’ve also tried to remove and modify a few blocks of code that weld and interact with the second character. But, it didn’t work.

ModuleScript code that welds and changes the secondary character’s appearance.

return function(Char)
	local Player = Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(Char);
	local CharTorso = Char:FindFirstChild("Torso");
	if (CharTorso) then
		TorsoConnect.Part0 = CharTorso;
		TorsoConnect.Part1 = Torso;
	end
	local Settings = Replicated.GetSettings:Invoke(Player);
	local SecondaryCharacterID = Settings["Secondary Character ID"];
	if (typeof(SecondaryCharacterID) == "table" and typeof(SecondaryCharacterID[1]) == "number") then
		ApplyDescriptionFromID(Character.Humanoid, SecondaryCharacterID[1]);
	end
end
#2

Apologies for making others click on the links, I couldn’t figure out how to upload without needing to download the gifs.

#3

There is two ways you could address this issue but let me explain what is happening first.
I feel like when you have put these two characters together you have changed/edited the instance tree/explorer which the animation cannot understand.

You can load the animation and see what instances are located where and setup your characters like so to match or either delete the humanoid like you references and re attach the accessories through the use of Welds, Attachments, etc.

#4

The first method wouldn’t work because removing the Humanoid wouldn’t have an affect to the character model itself. I’ve tried this with the blank rig when I didn’t load in a HumanoidDescription into the secondary character and it still failed to work with the Humanoid in the secondary character. So, trying to manage and set up the character again wouldn’t help out much.

The second method also could not work because I still need details such as the shirt and pants.

#5

Are you able to provide the rig and animation so I can look into it myself. It’s hard to help if I don’t have any reference.

#6

Alright, so this includes the rig in the explorer and the way I animated the two characters.

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#7

So the playback works fine I’m guessing? Is it only when you load the animation onto the rig? Wouldn’t you have to load two separate animations for each character because LoadAnimation() only applies to one humanoid and cannot control both.

#8

It should still apply to both since they both still have normal Motor6Ds.

#9

Also, it only has a problem when the secondary character has a Humanoid.

#10

I don’t have the best understanding on how animations work so someone who has more knowledge can help out on the topic though I still believe that something on Roblox’s side cannot understand the two humanoids because that is what is causing the issue.

You could take a alternate route and delete the humanoid within the rig then weld a separate character to the respective parts but at that point it feels like that’s the incorrect way and over doing it.

#11

I’ll wait for another person to reply and hope that they have a solution. Otherwise, I’ll be forced to scrap the changeable secondary character idea and use a robot model instead.

Thank you so much for talking your time with me through this problem though!

#12

You can create a function to weld a separate character to the prop as that’s the only solution I can think of at the time without having to re-animate but that’s all I can provide.

#13

By two characters, you mean 2 players? I don’t have a solution for that but I have welded a character onto an npc… then built a “super rig” that animated both with the same humanoid.

It’s also possible to piecemeal animate a model, so as long as all the bones are different, you could animate the “characters” individually

#14

You have to override the default animations for the character on the back.
Stop all the animations. Then load the one needed on the right character.

Make sure you’re not anchoring anything.
Make sure the characters are R6
Make sure the motor6d has the same name as in the animator