Making an auto-updating NPC - CharacterAppearance?
I haven't fully dived into using it on the NPC I'm working with but would like to ask if anyone knows a better way of going about this or if what I want to do works at all.
What I want to do: Have an NPC assume the appearance of a player not-in-game
I was thinking of using
game.Players.Player1.CharacterAppearance = "http://www.roblox.com/Asset/CharacterFetch.ashx?userId=" .. game.Players.Player1.UserId
but of course an NPC has no relevance to the service Players. So does anyone know how I should go about this?
I'm not familiar with the new joints systems so was hoping this would clear up any mess I'd have in writing it from scratch; in terms of getting all the accessories (hats) where I need them to be.
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A method that I use for inanimate player-models is:
- Equip the clothing items that you want the model to wear
- Go to Studio and click Play, then Pause the game
- Open your Explorer Tab and go to Workspace, then the Group-Item with Your Player Name
- Copy all items inside the Group to your clipboard then Stop The Game
- Create a New Brick on your Baseplate, then right-click to select 'Group'
- This will group That Single Brick, to which you will Paste Into the stuff you copied
- You'll find that it creates a large group box - find the Group called 'Model' in Explorer
- Find the brick called 'Part' then Delete It
- Congratulations, you've found yourself making a copy of a player-model!
If you've followed the method above, you'll find two things...
One: All Items of Clothing or Accessories are retained, cloned from the Real Player Model
Two: You can Insert Your Own Custom Script, or a Dialog attribute to the Model's 'Head' brick
Note: if you choose to insert a 'Dialogue' attribute, you must insert it IN the Head brick only!
But, what you asked for was an 'auto-updating' NPC model...
I'd say that the script you provided as evidence is able to do it. But make sure to smooth out the syntax and also make a CDN-checker, to see if the model or skin is unavailable.
I use the term CDN, not for Content Delivery Network, but for: Content D-something N-something, cool stuff right? Right..? ...
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