Locally copied humanoid interfering with LocalPlayer's character

[idle sonnet]

I am trying to copy a humanoid character for only visuals. After cloning it from replicatedstorage locally, I clone all my LocalPlayer's clothes onto it and update its position in RenderStepped. For some reason this locally cloned humanoid is interfering with my LocalPlayer's character. Updating it's position is also somehow updating my LocalPlayer's character's position even though there shouldn't be any interference.

In a nutshell the goal is to clone a character and insert LocalPlayer's character's clothes onto it and use it purely for visuals on the client side. Thank you in advance!

[bright tide]

i think ur trying to do smt like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh3DMk_ya2I

this would be less janky

[idle sonnet]

Im trying to have two characters on top of eachother: one is the one you normally control and one is only for local visuals

[bright tide]

?

what does the character look like

[idle sonnet]

Its a character with custom animations and welds and my local characters clothes should be copied onto it

[drowsy patio]

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[bright tide]

do you have a picture?

[idle sonnet]

Its a character with humanoid basically. It can be anything. Problem is that roblox’s physics engine gets messed up or something when I add the humanoid locally and update its position. The position update is changing my real characters position as well.

Even though there isnt any connection between my local character and the copied humanoid Ive made in my scripts.

[bright tide]

should the player look different to other players?

[idle sonnet]

Nope its just local

The extra character

[bright tide]

no like compared to what you see

[idle sonnet]

Yeah others see only the original character

I will see the clone in first person. Basically the goal is so when turning camera up or down the clone will rotate.

[bright tide]

just weld the parts instead of updating the positons

[idle sonnet]

Cos roblox doesnt have up or down rotation by default

[bright tide]

??

[idle sonnet]

Ill try this thanks but I think I did and there was some problem

[bright tide]

what does this even mean

[idle sonnet]

Like when you look up or down no part of your character is rotating

If you look side to side your character rotates

With the camera

[bright tide]

like side to side with shiftlock?

but up and down

[idle sonnet]

Yeah

And I need it to rotate around the camera center point cos its an fps game

[bright tide]

i dont think thats the best way to do that but im writing a script that should do what u want

nevermind the hitbox is really werid and you just fly everywhere

[idle sonnet]

I think its the easiest cos if I copy the entire rig and rotate the whole rig then animations will be preserved and I just need to rotate the full rig vs rotating all individual parts

[bright tide]

i think you should just rotate the torso based on the camera rotation

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[idle sonnet]

I was doing that first but if you rotate torso then the hands wont rotate in a circle

Well depends where you rotate it but Im not sure if you can rotate it around any point

Ill check

[bright tide]

you could clone the arms and set thats rotation based on the camera

[idle sonnet]

I think it might interfere with the animations

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[idle sonnet]

There was something that almost worked

I attached motor6d joint around the shoulders so it was in the center of the camera

But when I turned side to side with that joint my character body didnt move instantly

I tried updating the position side to side manually but still the joint ”lagged” behind

[bright tide]

idk how to do animation stuff and mix and match upper and lower body thingys

local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local RunService = game:GetService("RunService")

local player = Players.LocalPlayer


local function disableCollisions(character)
    for _, part in ipairs(character:GetDescendants()) do
        if part:IsA("BasePart") and part.Name ~= "HumanoidRootPart" then
            part.CanCollide = false
        end
    end
end

RunService.RenderStepped:Connect(function()
    local character = player.Character
    if not character or not character:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart") then return end

    disableCollisions(character)

    local hrp = character.HumanoidRootPart
    local camPos = workspace.CurrentCamera.CFrame.Position

    local lookVector = (camPos - hrp.Position).Unit

    local reverseLook = -lookVector

    hrp.CFrame = CFrame.new(hrp.Position, hrp.Position + reverseLook)
end)

but heres what you asked for
i did it on the player instead of cloning a rig
which makes it move werid but if u clone a rig and remove the mass and collision it should be fine

i dont think this is the solution you should do
you still have the problem of fixing this on the server showing other players your looking up and down

if you can fix it on the server theres no need for this script

[idle sonnet]

Im not showing it to other players

Thanks Ill test this but it looks a lot like what I tested

[bright tide]

ik but the other players your playing against should see you looking up and down not straight forward

[idle sonnet]

@bright tide I think that will need its own mechanic