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A better way of doing this?

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I've been working on an RPG map and I'm stuck... What my aim here is when a player joins, they spawn right above the brick (The onTouch one), and when they hit it the script happens so I can have a custom GUI with a character selection etc. What I'm after is how can I make this more efficient and so it happens without the player touching the brick? 

function onTouch(hit)
        if hit.Name == "Left Leg" then
                for _,v in pairs(hit.Parent:GetChildren()) do                  
                       
                        if v:IsA("CharacterMesh") then
                                v:Remove()
                        end
                       
                        if v:IsA("Shirt") then
                                v:Remove()
                        end
                       
                        if v:IsA("T-Shirt") then
                                v:Remove()
                        end
                       
                        if v:IsA("Pants") then
                                v:Remove()
                        end
                       
                        if v:IsA("Hat") then
                                v:Remove()
                        end
                       
                        local headMesh = game.ServerStorage.HeadMesh
                       
                        if headMesh ~= nil then
                        local head = hit.Parent.Head
                        local headMeshClone = headMesh:Clone()
                        headMeshClone.Parent = head
                        end
                end
        end
end
 
script.Parent.Touched:connect(onTouch)

Thanks, jakei181

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You can do things when the character spawns by using the CharacterAppearanceLoaded event, which is just like CharacterAdded, but it waits for the assets to load.

game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(function(player)
	player.CharacterAppearanceLoaded:connect(function(character)
		for _,v in pairs(character:GetChildren())do
			if v:IsA("CharacterAppearance")then
				v:Destroy()
			end
			game.ServerStorage.HeadMesh:clone().Parent=character.Head
		end
	end)
end)

An even better way to not have to deal with character assets is to set Player.CanLoadCharacterAppearance to false when they join.

edit:

Player.CharacterAdded is an event of the Player class. It is fired when a player respawns or when Player:LoadCharacter() is called, and it provides the new character as an argument.

game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(function(player)
	player.CharacterAdded:connect(functon(char)
		print(char.Name.."'s character spawned")
	end)
end)

Player.CharacterAppearanceLoaded does the same thing, but it doesn't fire immediately when the character spawns. Instead, it waits for the hats, packages, etc. to load into the character object. If you were to try to access (or remove) these objects before they loaded, they would not be there yet.

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Thanks! May you show me how to do Player.CanLoadCharacterAppearance?

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