Viewport frame won't load my character right for some reason

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#1

So I am trying to make viewport frame that renders player’s character, but the character wont show up in the frame. But let me say something funny, when I manually in game take the model out of the frame, and then put it back, the character shows up! I don’t know why is it happening so any help will be appriciated!
I don’t get any error in output btw

video of “funny thing”:

My script:

repeat task.wait(0.5) until game:IsLoaded()
local players = game:GetService("Players")
local replicated = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local plr = players.LocalPlayer

local function setUpViewports()
	 PlayerOneVPF = Instance.new("ViewportFrame")
	PlayerOneVPF.Parent = script.Parent
	local aspectRatio = Instance.new("UIAspectRatioConstraint")
	aspectRatio.Parent = PlayerOneVPF
	aspectRatio.AspectRatio = 1
	aspectRatio.AspectType = Enum.AspectType.FitWithinMaxSize
	PlayerOneVPF.Size = UDim2.new(0.1,0,1,0)
	PlayerOneVPF.Position = UDim2.new(0,0,0,0)
	 PlayerOneVPFCamera = Instance.new("Camera")
	PlayerOneVPFCamera.Parent = PlayerOneVPF
	PlayerOneVPF.CurrentCamera = PlayerOneVPFCamera
end

setUpViewports()

local plr1VPchar = nil
local plr2VPchar = nil

local function spawnCharactersToFrames(plr1, plr2)
	plr1.Character.Archivable = true
	local NpcToCopy = plr1.Character:Clone()
	NpcToCopy.Parent = PlayerOneVPF
	NpcToCopy.PrimaryPart.Position = Vector3.new(0,0,0)
	plr1VPchar = NpcToCopy
	local part = Instance.new("Part") --I rendered part here just to be sure the frame is working properly
	part.Parent = PlayerOneVPF
	PlayerOneVPFCamera.CFrame = CFrame.new(Vector3.new(0, 2, 12), part.Position)
end

spawnCharactersToFrames(plr)
#2

Try putting the character inside a WorldModel, inside the ViewportFrame. This will keep the frame updated to always show what is inside. Without a WorldModel, it only renders the content inside once.

#3

I tried adding worldModel, but still no difference. The character just won’t load until I manually re-add the character.

#4

Did you put the character inside the world model?

#5

yep, it looks like this:
image

#6

Try having a script set the current camera of that viewport frame to a new camera on runtime. If that doesn’t work, I guess you could just have the script parent the character to the viewport frame twice, so it has to load.

#7

The camera is already being assigned in script on runtime. I was sending screenshots from running game. And I just tried parenting it twice, but still no difference. I am kinda sure there is nothing wrong with the camera, since when I create part and parent it into the viewportframe, it renders as it should. So there must be something wrong with the character.

#8

Would you mind trying it yourself? I know there is only a slim chance but it might be rb studio issue

#9

Is the character in the correct position when placed in the world model? I’m pretty sure physics doesn’t exist in viewport frames, but I could be wrong. So maybe when you put the character in the workspace, it falls in the correct position when you put it back in the frame.

#10

Yes, I set the character’s pivot to 0,0,0 and I am having the camera to look at those coordinates. And you are indeed right that there are not physics in viewport.

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