Viewportframe, help!

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#2

Try waiting for the character before cloning it.
Like this:

local Character = game.Players.LocalPlayer.Character or game.Players.LocalPlayer.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local clone = Character:Clone()
-- Rest of the code
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#3

Changed the code, it still shows the same error.

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#4

Maybe that’s because the clone fell of the word. Try setting the HumanoidRootPart of the clone to a position that he isn’t going to die. :thinking:

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#6 
local viewportFrame = Instance.new("ViewportFrame")
viewportFrame.Size = UDim2.new(0.3, 0, 0.4, 0)
viewportFrame.Position = UDim2.new(0, 15, 0, 15)
viewportFrame.BackgroundColor3 = Color3.new(0.196078, 0.196078, 0.196078)
viewportFrame.BorderSizePixel = 0
viewportFrame.Parent = script.Parent

local Character = game.Players.LocalPlayer.Character or game.Players.LocalPlayer.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local clone = Character:Clone()
clone.HumanoidRootPart.Position = Vector3.new(-80.67, 0.5, -244.88)

clone.Parent = viewportFrame

local viewportCamera = Instance.new("Camera")
viewportFrame.CurrentCamera = viewportCamera
viewportCamera.Parent = viewportFrame

viewportCamera.CFrame = CFrame.new(Vector3.new(0, 0, 10), clone.HumanoidRootPart.Position)

Same error.

#7

I’ll try your code in my game, just a moment…

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#8

Ok, so I did some tests, and for some reason you can’t clone the player character.
I tried do clone other models and it works perfectly fine, but if I try to clone the player character it gives me an error.
I found this post, and this may help you: Can’t clone character?
But, when I set the property Archivable to true it just clones the Character model, not the descendants of the model.
So, at this point, I don’t know what to do. :frowning:

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#9

Instead i can use a dummy then.

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#10

Yes, I think you could try it!
This is a great idea.

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#11

I tried using a dummy yesterday, but i had some problems with the camera angle, and that’s happening again.

local viewportFrame = Instance.new("ViewportFrame")
viewportFrame.Size = UDim2.new(0.3, 0, 0.4, 0)
viewportFrame.Position = UDim2.new(0, 15, 0, 15)
viewportFrame.BackgroundColor3 = Color3.new(0.196078, 0.196078, 0.196078)
viewportFrame.BorderSizePixel = 0
viewportFrame.Parent = script.Parent

local Character = game.ReplicatedStorage.Dummy
local clone = Character:Clone()

clone.Parent = viewportFrame

local viewportCamera = Instance.new("Camera")
viewportFrame.CurrentCamera = viewportCamera
viewportCamera.Parent = viewportFrame

viewportCamera.CFrame = CFrame.new(Vector3.new(0, 0, 10), clone.HumanoidRootPart.Position)

It did in fact work but this is the result:

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#12

Use this?

clone.Position = Vector3.new(0, 0, 10)
#13

I’ll try that, but wouldn’t that go wrong because it’s a model and it doesn’t have a Position property

#14

So, this?

clone:SetPrimaryCFrame(Vector3.new(0, 0, 10))
#15

To fix that, I just moved the dummy to the spawn.

#16

The reason you have the problem is that a player’s character cannot be cloned because the Archivable property is set to false on default. To clone it, you need to set the archivable property to true:

local viewportFrame = Instance.new("ViewportFrame")
viewportFrame.Size = UDim2.new(0.3, 0, 0.4, 0)
viewportFrame.Position = UDim2.new(0, 15, 0, 15)
viewportFrame.BackgroundColor3 = Color3.new(0.196078, 0.196078, 0.196078)
viewportFrame.BorderSizePixel = 0
viewportFrame.Parent = script.Parent

local char = game.Players.LocalPlayer.Character or game.Players.LocalPlayer.CharacterAdded:Wait()
char.Archivable = true
local clone = char:Clone()
char.Archivable = false
clone.Parent = viewportFrame

local viewportCamera = Instance.new("Camera")
viewportFrame.CurrentCamera = viewportCamera
viewportCamera.Parent = viewportFrame

viewportCamera.CFrame = CFrame.new(Vector3.new(20, 20, 20), clone.HumanoidRootPart.Position)
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#17

I already did this, but it just clones the character model, not the descendants.

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#18

Well that looks like it works… kinda.

image

#19

And if you want you can rotate it to, so it looks to the camera.

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#20

Maybe this?

local viewportFrame = Instance.new("ViewportFrame")
viewportFrame.Size = UDim2.new(0.3, 0, 0.4, 0)
viewportFrame.Position = UDim2.new(0, 15, 0, 15)
viewportFrame.BackgroundColor3 = Color3.new(0.196078, 0.196078, 0.196078)
viewportFrame.BorderSizePixel = 0
viewportFrame.Parent = script.Parent

local char = game.Players.LocalPlayer.Character or game.Players.LocalPlayer.CharacterAdded:Wait()
char.Archivable = true
for _, object in pairs(char:GetDescendants()) do
	object.Archivable = true
end
local clone = char:Clone()
for _, object in pairs(char:GetDescendants()) do
	object.Archivable = false
end
char.Archivable = false
clone.Parent = viewportFrame

local viewportCamera = Instance.new("Camera")
viewportFrame.CurrentCamera = viewportCamera
viewportCamera.Parent = viewportFrame

viewportCamera.CFrame = CFrame.new(Vector3.new(20, 20, 20), clone.HumanoidRootPart.Position)
#21

I think this is happening because you set the camera CFrame to 0,0,0.
If you want you can set it to the Dummy HumanoidRootPart position + Vector.new(0,0,10)

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#22

Try this maybe:

local model = someModelHere

local size = model:GetExtentsSize()

local longest = math.max(size.x,size.y,size.z)
local distance = longest*2

camera.CFrame = CFrame.lookAt(model.PrimaryPart.Position+model.PrimaryPart.CFrame.LookVector*distance,model.PrimaryPart.Position)