Why can't I switch the player's character?

[EzraPalo (ezra)]

Hi devs,
I have recently been trying to change the players character in game.
For some reason, the character just gets deleted, and doesn’t give the player a new character. I added a print statement (not included) to check that the function was being called when needed, which it was. Here’s my code
‘’
local function avatarCharLoad(plr)
local oldCharacter = plr.Character
local newCharacter = game:GetService(“ServerStorage”):WaitForChild(“Players”):FindFirstChild(plr.Name):Clone()

newCharacter.HumanoidRootPart.Anchored = false
newCharacter:SetPrimaryPartCFrame(oldCharacter.PrimaryPart.CFrame)


plr.Character = newCharacter
newCharacter.Parent = game.Workspace.InGameChars.Protector
return plr

end
‘’
Anybody know what’s wrong?

(Soz that the code formatting didn’t work btw)

[Yarik_superpro (GrandiusOptimizus)]

@EzraPalo

game.Workspace

dont do it ever again please.
workspace global uses GETIMPORT so its far better.

local Protector = workspace.InGameChars.Protector

newCharacter:PivotTo(oldCharacter.PrimaryPart.CFrame)
newCharacter.HumanoidRootPart.Anchored = false
newCharacter.Parent = Protector
plr.Character = newCharacter
oldCharacter:Destroy()

return plr

[Leviikori (Lev)]

Dug up an old morph handler script I used to use that still works. Here’s what I used:

local charClone = morph:Clone()

local rootPart = charClone:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart") 
local plrRoot = plr.Character:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart") 
plr.Character = charClone
charClone.Parent = workspace
		
if rootPart and plrRoot then
	rootPart.CFrame = plrRoot.CFrame
end

Adjusting this to your needs:

local function avatarCharLoad(plr)
	local morph = game:GetService("ServerStorage"):WaitForChild("Players"):FindFirstChild(plr.Name)
	local charClone = morph:Clone()
	local rootPart = charClone:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart") 
	local plrRoot = plr.Character:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart") 
	plr.Character = charClone
	charClone.Parent = workspace
		
	if rootPart and plrRoot then
		rootPart.Anchored = false
		rootPart.CFrame = plrRoot.CFrame
	end
end