Unable to change a character's body colors upon respawn

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So the goal of this individual script is to wipe the player model of all shirts, pants, hats, and accessories on respawn and color the character to the color “Fossil” all around except for the torso (currently using R6) which will be colored the player’s team color.

Everything seems to work fine except for the fact that the player’s body parts won’t color the way I want it to. Oddly enough, however, the only part that does color correctly is the HumanoidRootPart.

There are no errors in the output.

There is a “Something unexpectedly set ___ parent to NULL” warning that I’m not sure how to remedy although it doesn’t seem to cause any problems while testing.

Specific Code:

local function wipePlayerModel(character)
	local player = playersService:GetPlayerFromCharacter(character)
	local headPart = character:FindFirstChild("Head")
	local torsoPart = character:FindFirstChild("Torso")
	for index, obj in pairs(character:GetChildren()) do
		if obj and obj:IsA("Accessory") or obj:IsA("Hat") or obj:IsA("Shirt") or obj:IsA("Pants") then
			obj:Destroy()
		end
	end
	for index, bodyPart in pairs(character:GetChildren()) do
		if bodyPart and bodyPart:IsA("BasePart") then
			bodyPart.BrickColor = BrickColor.new("Fossil")
		end
	end
	if headPart then 
		local face = headPart:FindFirstChild("face")
		if face then
			face:Destroy()
		end
	end
	if torsoPart then
		torsoPart.BrickColor = player.TeamColor
	end
end

Entirety of Code:

local runService = game:GetService("RunService")
local playerService = game:GetService("Players")

local scriptService = game:GetService("ServerScriptService")
local server = scriptService:WaitForChild("server")
local settingsList = require(server:WaitForChild("Settings"))

local playersService = game:GetService("Players")
local shortcuts = require(script:WaitForChild("Shortcuts"))

local function wipePlayerModel(character)
	local player = playersService:GetPlayerFromCharacter(character)
	local headPart = character:FindFirstChild("Head")
	local torsoPart = character:FindFirstChild("Torso")
	for index, obj in pairs(character:GetChildren()) do
		if obj and obj:IsA("Accessory") or obj:IsA("Hat") or obj:IsA("Shirt") or obj:IsA("Pants") then
			obj:Destroy()
		end
	end
	for index, bodyPart in pairs(character:GetChildren()) do
		if bodyPart and bodyPart:IsA("BasePart") then
			bodyPart.BrickColor = BrickColor.new("Fossil")
		end
	end
	if headPart then 
		local face = headPart:FindFirstChild("face")
		if face then
			face:Destroy()
		end
	end
	if torsoPart then
		torsoPart.BrickColor = player.TeamColor
	end
end

local function wipePlayerModelUsingChild(child)
	if child and child.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
		wipePlayerModel(child.Parent)
	end
end

local function respawned(character)
	runService.Stepped:wait()
	wipePlayerModel(character)
	character.ChildAdded:connect(wipePlayerModelUsingChild)
end

local function joined(player)
	local character = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:wait()
	local leaderstats = shortcuts:CreateIntValue("leaderstats", 0, player)
	shortcuts:CreateIntValue("KO", 0, leaderstats)
	shortcuts:CreateIntValue("DMG", 0, leaderstats)
	shortcuts:CreateIntValue("OBJ", 0, leaderstats)
	
	player.CharacterAdded:connect(respawned)
	if character then
		respawned(character)
	end
end

for num, player in pairs(playersService:GetPlayers()) do
	joined(player)
end

playersService.PlayerAdded:connect(joined)
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Don’t use code for this, just turn off StarterPlayer.LoadCharacterAppearance. It will do this all for you automatically.

If for some reason you can’t or don’t want to use that property, then what you should be doing is fetching the character’s current HumanoidDescription, wiping the values of some fields and then applying that description. Make sure to use CharacterAppearanceLoaded instead of CharacterAdded. This is probably also why your original code failed to work; wrong function used.

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