Viewport frame displaying blank avatar despite waiting for apperance to load

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Currently working on UI for testing and learning and have stumbled across a weird problem.

My goal is to have the viewport frame just show the players avatar, and it does when you spawn in, but upon respawning it shows up as the default grey avatar. Is this just a problem for studio? Because this problem does persist within Server and Client tests.

Code for viewport frame. 
local viewportFrame = script.Parent

local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local character:Model

if not player:HasAppearanceLoaded() then
	character = player.CharacterAppearanceLoaded:Wait()
else
	character = player.Character
end

character.Archivable = true

local model:Model = character:Clone()
model.Parent = viewportFrame.WorldModel


model.Parent = viewportFrame.WorldModel

local part = viewportFrame.WorldModel.Part

model:PivotTo(part.CFrame)

local viewportCam = Instance.new("Camera")
viewportCam.CFrame = CFrame.new(0, 0, 5)
viewportCam.FieldOfView = 40

viewportFrame.CurrentCamera = viewportCam
2

does this script and gui restart when you respawn?

3

Currently the GUI and script do restart.

I’ve tried turning off ResetOnSpawn it, but it can lead to some buggy-ish behavior to the health bar (such as not resetting to full). I’ll probably give a go at re-scripting it and seeing if I can get anywhere.

4

maybe if

character = player.Character

was put after the if-else statement?

5

Doesn’t seem to work, from what I’ve figured with some minor debugging, is once I respawn it counts my avatar as “loaded” despite it being pure grey, I wonder if this is a studio thing as I’ve never really seen this inside an actual game.

6

you could try loading the character model instead of cloning it

7

It seems that trying to load it with that needs to be run on a server sided script, though that wouldn’t really make sense for this as it’s local gui. Unless there’s something I’m missing?

Edit: I forgot the entire concept of having multiple scripts for one thing my bad.

8

Have found a solution after rewriting the script. (no idea if it’s the best way but it works)

I basically check if the players model exists in replicated storage, if it doesn’t I add it into it. I then use the model from replicated storage to show in the viewport frame.

Code for the script. (put into the viewport frame itself) 
local replicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")

local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer

local viewportFrame = player.PlayerGui:WaitForChild("PlayerStats").ViewportFrame 

local character:Model

if player.CharacterAppearanceLoaded then
	character = player.Character
else
	character = player.CharacterAppearanceLoaded:Wait()
end

character.Archivable = true

local repModel:Model

if not replicatedStorage.PlayerModels:FindFirstChild(character.Name) then
	print("model not found")
	repModel = character:Clone()
	repModel.Parent = replicatedStorage.PlayerModels
	
	repModel.Archivable = true
else
	print("model found")
	repModel = replicatedStorage.PlayerModels:FindFirstChild(character.Name)
end

local viewModel:Model = repModel:Clone()
viewModel.Parent = viewportFrame.WorldModel

-- Adjust viewModel.
local part = viewportFrame.WorldModel.Part

viewModel:PivotTo(part.CFrame)

local viewportCam = Instance.new("Camera")
viewportCam.CFrame = CFrame.new(0, 0, 5)
viewportCam.FieldOfView = 40

viewportFrame.CurrentCamera = viewportCam
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