Roblox Studio - Custom Player Skinned Mesh Character

[@thealcatrazsyndrome]

Created a new Discord community server, easier to reach me that way in case you need help JOIN THE DISCORD Discord: discord.gg/tddDEdMxUZ

[@MoyeMoyePlayerIX]

Bro, i made the character but its still having a very low speed while running

[@DaveBrinda]

Brilliant…best tutorial I’ve seen on the topic! I gotta give this a try!

[@thealcatrazsyndrome]

@@DaveBrinda thank you for the kind words I'm glad you enjoyed it

[@ozhinz]

why is your grown ass on roblox

[@NaiveFuzz]

@@ozhinz oh so when you see flamingo or kreek you take that normally? theyre grown ass too.

[@ozhinz]

@@NaiveFuzz You right foo my bad

[@NaiveFuzz]

@@ozhinz mhm. right. fgteev is a fucking grown ass man too 💀

[@H2610_]

Amazing tutorial dude, u can also use it to make NPCs (like monsters that chase you around) super useful i couldnt find a single tutorial as good as this one.

[@thealcatrazsyndrome]

Thank you, yeah I couldn't find a tutorial that did it in a clean way so I researched the topic, figured out how to do it and decided to make a tutorial on it, glad it was helpful

[@muhammadjawadzahid9675]

@@thealcatrazsyndrome Any chance you can do a short tutorial on making a custom NPC?

[@IluvMcdonalds]

Is there a difference in the script for making an npc? I followed everything except I kept it in the workspace but the animations don't play :(

[@Ziadziad0000]

For anyone that t-poses like i used to be when i clicked play i found out why. Its actually because the humanoid's rig type was set to R6, you might be saying but in the video its r6, well i dont know why it works on certain people but what you should do is take out the first animate script and put it in workspace(so you remember the id's) and set the rig type to R15, click play, copy the r15 animate script and put it in StarterCharacterScripts and put all the id's like in the video, if this works id be very happy bc i just took 5 minutes writing this!

[@Za-Jay]

Nothing works for me

[@SamasraProjects]

@@Za-Jay same idk what is going on

[@vishnunair156]

A very well made , straightforward & through tutorial. Thank you.

[@thealcatrazsyndrome]

Thank you very much, glad you enjoyed it :D

[@vishnunair156]

​@@thealcatrazsyndrome one suggestion i have zooming in once a while to make it easier to see changes made to the character, as I sometimes struggled to see changes being made to the (like collision) due to the small size of the text.

[@_Sickk]

Thank you so much; I had no idea there was a plugin that could fix the scale issue.

[@lynxarsYt]

the scale issue can be resolved easily with just ungrouping it then grouping it once again, problem solved! i havent watched the video yet so if its about the animation scaling error, there is fixes for that/plugins!

[@RobloxianQuester]

ive watched this video like 10 times now

[@PythonProductionss]

This is so great. Please make a tutorial on how to make a animal/predator skinned mesh from sketchfab that attack players.

[@PythonProductionss]

You have a new sub this is so great

[@mcdoodledoodle9974]

Great job, very useful 👍🏻

[@thealcatrazsyndrome]

Glad it was helpful!

[@Amss0]

Great tutorial, one question. Is the voice AI?

[@thealcatrazsyndrome]

Hey thanks, yes the voice is an AI tts model

[@Amss0]

@@thealcatrazsyndrome which one is it, it sounds natural and good!

[@thealcatrazsyndrome]

@@Amss0 elevenlabs.io

[@super-pika1223]

thank you so much helped a lot

[@Ki_music.official]

OMG ONE THAT WORKED THANK YOU SO MUCH

[@muhammadjawadzahid9675]

Sir. 1. This is the best most well taught lecture and example on the subject. Hats off to you and touché. 2. Any chance that you can teach us how to turn this exact mesh into a NPC that can just patrol from one WP to another.

[@UmmOkie]

thank you for the tutorial mate

[@thealcatrazsyndrome]

Happy to help

[@alienisalien]

WOW,you are legend! Thank you so muchh

[@thealcatrazsyndrome]

No problem, glad you enjoyed it 🍻🍻

[@AriFerrari12]

You are a legend

[@BudgetvIncorporated]

What happens if the animation scaling doesn't work? After I followed the first few steps of animation scaling before the step at 10:20, when I press "Apply Scale", nothing happens. It doesn't even create a fixed duplicate of the animation. What do I do?

[@blaze8959]

Bro this Helped me alot Thx

[@Vivzworld]

When I try to import the animations, and actually play it, the legs and arms get all bent in the wrong positions.

[@Kript0_Dev]

Nice video man, love the way you explain. May you do a video for a 8D movement system? (Like fordwards, backwards, left, right, etc) or Procedural Animations (With inverse Kinematics). Thank you!

[@thealcatrazsyndrome]

Thanks, good ideas, maybe I'll do those they sound fun to do

[@Kript0_Dev]

@@thealcatrazsyndrome Thanks man, appreciate it.

[@Kript0_Dev]

@@thealcatrazsyndrome Heyy, I have always the same "bug" or "error", the collisions. I am not able to collisions that works fine and doesent clip or else. May you create a vid about collitions, etc; please?

[@thealcatrazsyndrome]

Hmm, I think the collisions should work as is no?

[@Kript0_Dev]

@@thealcatrazsyndrome No, the character doesent collide with anything, neither a wall. I tryed changing the collision mode but that makes it worse. I think I have to create a custom collision box.

[@HezerdisaHazard]

Actual life saver 😭

[@require._]

I changed all the properties correctly but my character just falls through the map.

[@szasbaddest1]

Same

[@Jasonic_Youtube]

Make a tutorial skinned mesh spiderman with web swinging, web zipping, wall crawling.

[@juanomarbadjimartinez5795]

bro thats too complicated

[@LSPPlayZ]

bro wants this guy to script for him

[@Yuhzoka-z4q]

how can i fix this problem when i import the FBX animation it does not load in

[@rashedalzaabi417]

Great Job 👍

[@kaxi3d]

if you export your model scaled correctly with the right export settigns you probably dont have to do all that plugin stuff

[@Vayavoo]

Everything worked until I got to animations, my character is still in idle when I import the animations

[@KazamuKimishaza]

W vid man

[@thealcatrazsyndrome]

Thanks g

[@KazamuKimishaza]

@@thealcatrazsyndrome ayy man i gothu u get sub

[@Wolfractionwashere]

Oh thanks 😮

[@Gabri_KrOfficial]

why am i getting error 400 when i try to upload the character on my game?

[@NoscoOfficial]

you just have to change the name of your 3D model if it persists, change it again it will work :)

[@Bloxified-Roblox]

@@NoscoOfficial thanks dude

[@YourAverageRock]

yay it worked :D

[@pigmie8370]

You should make a tutorial on how to use custom characters for VR

[@thealcatrazsyndrome]

Perhaps, thanks for the suggestion

[@pigmie8370]

@@thealcatrazsyndrome Or maybe it's too hard for you haha

[@thealcatrazsyndrome]

@@pigmie8370 maybe lol, I guess you'll have to stay tuned and find out xd

[@pigmie8370]

​@@thealcatrazsyndrome It's a lot harder in VR because you have to estimate where every single bone should be positioned and rotated based on three points: the headset and the two controllers. But it's not impossible I've done it before.

[@aliiisina]

im having an issue when uploading the mesh, it works when i bulk import but the bones dont import so i can't animate when i do that, and when i import using the import 3d tool it keeps giving me errors like status error: 400

[@thealcatrazsyndrome]

if bones aren't being imported, something's wrong with the .fbx file

[@snekDesigner]

I had the same problem. To fix this you have to check "Import zero bones"

[@KoolKatForEver]

yea im having the same problem but there is no import zero bones that i can check off

[@mythicalmods2260]

That's because of the name, rename the bones and animation when importing into roblox

[@KoolKatForEver]

I figured out the problem its because the file size needs to be less than 20mb

[@TheGrimReaper19]

Does this work for models with multiple meshes pieced together and held together by bones? For some reason my animations will not properly load.

[@Snexzyy]

I can't move as the StarterCharacter and I have surface and join meshes.

[@SidneyXDofc]

When I try to Import the character, error 400 appears on the Body

[@ClydeCamilla]

I need help when I play it the joints are in the wrong way when animated and it looks like the legs are walkong backwords

[@ShaunSleeps]

After I imported a character from Mixamo, Roblox Studio instantly crashed. How do I fix this problem?

[@MMGReal]

Everything works perfectly, except the animations actually playing. I deleted the torso and everything else in the animate script, and changed the animationid in the idle part, yet the animations still aren't being played.

[@thealcatrazsyndrome]

You've gotta make sure the animations work in the animation editor, after that I'd check if changing the humanoid rig type works, if none of those works then it seems you need your own custom animate script, i have a tutorial on that on my channel 8D movement tutorial

[@mysteryscopes]

Can you make a video on how to make a character selection system for skinned meshes pls

[@olivia82836]

Quick question, can I make an animal, like 4 legs?

[@TngPho]

none of the animations play when i import them into the animation editor

[@TngPho]

it works with other models i download, ig something was just wrong with the original one i used

[@CollinsVenture]

THANK YOU SO MUCH..

[@Spadegtart]

hi, where is the animate scrip on 11:58 ? I cant find it

[@Spadegtart]

I naw already have an animate scipt in starter character

[@LSPPlayZ]

For some reason when i play with it I cant move. Please help

[@jeynkins]

Very weird, I did everythign for the animation and used roblox's default animation controller but the idle anim still doesnt play. Even using a regualr script to initiate the atnimation doesnt work on it.

[@jeynkins]

Ah I forgot the animate under the hum

[@require._]

For some reason none of the new animations are playing when putting the new animate script in and editing the animation ids. The priority is set to mvoement and i even tried the max priority not sure whats going on

[@thealcatrazsyndrome]

do they work fine in the animation editor? like do they play when you load them and press the play button on your avatar outside of runtime in the animation editor

[@mrclownyoriginal]

so im trying to make a jump animation, but when i scale it and everything, it still does the weird glitch thing where it just keeps teleporting,

[@blu6943]

what do i do about welding when my model has multiple parts. example, left arm, right arm. do i make multiple weld constraints? please help

[@kiritokun1480]

no, you'll rig them

[@xenomorphgirlxenomorphworld]

could u make one on how to put clothes over the rig

[@Ethzz.]

i get an error on the animation editor saying 'A model needs to have its parts joined together by Moter6ds to properly animate' how can i fix this?

[@reallycoolandawesome]

why didn't the textures load for my character edit: i fixed it nvm

[@JaxsonDavis-j4b]

this is helpful but im trying to do a springtrap model so im not sure if it applies here since there are multiple meshes here

[@kaxi3d]

you have to combine the whole model! its not too hard once you start, all the parts must be weighted and combined

[@RedditRecap_50]

Thats a great vid bro i am planning on making a ben 10 themed roblox game but for that i want the character to be our normal roblox character first then when we press transform key it transforms into the 3d model

[@arrow7144]

What is that devcatraz drop down and how did you get it under workspace

[@BlorgBloing]

Thx

[@notarthem]

I put the animations in all followed the steps but when I turn on the game the animations isn’t working my guy just tposing

[@Za-Jay]

I cant figure out why but the animations dont work

[@herogamer3975]

how whould i make the rig hold weapon or tool, if i do just as it the tool just doesnt show

[@joshuabooboo1359]

Ran into a scaling problem where when I put the model to 1 they become massive! And it’s the only way I can make it so they don’t slide around is there a fix to this?

[@thealcatrazsyndrome]

You have to use the button in the scale field, this keeps the transforms the same

[@thealcatrazsyndrome]

Alternatively, if this doesn't work, ungrouping and regrouping the model sets the scale to be == 1

[@friedpotato6846]

i keep getting errors while trying to import the files with it saying "upload failed, status code: 400" do you know how i can fix this?

[@alloutgamerz202]

I'm trying to find a way to make the starter character spawn for me alone but my friends continue to spawn as me😂

[@PopppDev]

my character cant move, and when i jump it lets me move and somethimes mid air it starts sliding still unable to move, everything is correct the scale is at 1 i did a rootpart but it does that, EDIT: I FIXED IT, this might be a common one, some characters have a rootPart part added on them so make sure do disable collisions on that and make it massles

[@snekDesigner]

thx

[@Ljmask]

maybe just name it HumanoidRootPart

[@Glxsk]

how do I fix the error, my character is sliding on the floor?

[@Glxsk]

When I want to open a plugin with resizing animation, it just doesn't open

[@thealcatrazsyndrome]

@@Glxsk the sliding issue always happens because of the scale, so make eure the Starter character in your starter player folder has a scale of 1, as for the animation resizer plugin I'm not sure why it wouldn't show up, check if it's undocked and placed weirdly out the bounds of the screen maybe?

[@Glxsk]

@@thealcatrazsyndrome for some reason, the plugin doesn't really open, I even reinstalled it, I do not know how to fix it

[@thealcatrazsyndrome]

@@Glxsk it could be related to other plugins you have installed, maybe they're not compatible, try disabling the other plugins in the plugin manager, and then re enable animation resizer

[@rivkagames]

I can't seem to figure out how to attach other parts to this model while its animated. For example, faces or clothes built out of parts

[@Rayzz1112]

ig you have to weld it to your character

[@YT-Calvin]

Could you make a vid about making a character in bleneer from scratch then rigging it like this bc ehrn i rig it i dont got the bones in stufio to animate the only way i can animate is if i use a made character i wanna make my own 😢

[@OfficialCrownProductions]

3:51

[@skrr9567]

what if i want to make it to an npc(particularly a mob or enemy in a game) and not to a player?

[@thealcatrazsyndrome]

Same way you do it with R6 or R15 characters, just add server Animate script and Health scriot

[@skrr9567]

@@thealcatrazsyndrome could u do a tutorial about that? Im sure the video will be very helpful to other devs because i dont see anybody do a complete guide on how to import animations from maximo

[@thealcatrazsyndrome]

@@skrr9567 perhaps, I'm currently working on a 8 direction movement tutorial, after that I'll do an IK gun tutorial, so maybe after that I'll do some npc tutorials

[@arkadii_bgyoutuber2482]

why y can t import animations?

[@thealcatrazsyndrome]

@@arkadii_bgyoutuber2482 could be many things got any details?

[@arkadii_bgyoutuber2482]

@@thealcatrazsyndrome thx you the roblox says u have more ratio

[@DERKSRBLX]

how do I fix my animations not looping?

[@MatthewDoesStuff451]

why won't it move when I walk It has multiple meshes ungrouped btw

[@thealcatrazsyndrome]

@@MatthewDoesStuff451 could be many things, there's no problem with multiple mesh parts as long as they're all in the same model, do you have a RootPart inside? Not humanoid root part, just RootPart it should hold the bones, this is what you weld humanoid root part to

[@Spadegtart]

@@thealcatrazsyndrome I am also having this problem what do you mean by it though? Like is there suppose to be a root part connecting all of the bones inside?

[@Spadegtart]

@@thealcatrazsyndrome also this might be not ok for you but can I get your discord or something So i can talk to you if I have any other questions?

[@Ki_music.official]

Is there a way to have only leg skinned mesh?

[@4real04]

Hey, if my imported model has a lot of meshes (eyes, body,etc.) am i suposed to merge them somehow or is it fine? Thanks btw!

[@thealcatrazsyndrome]

You should be fine, tested with one of those as well and I didn't have any issues.

[@thealcatrazsyndrome]

Now of course the rig and animations have to be set up correctly, blender is useful for this

[@yashghanekar1424]

@@thealcatrazsyndrome my skin mesh also had body face lashes, seperately so I could only weld some parts and it only shows those parts when i made it into a Starter hcracter

[@JakeTheDevv]

I followed all the steps up to the weld constraint, but my character appears invisible?

[@TwoPetsDiscord]

Your character is supposed to be invisible because it is in StarterPlayer. You can see in the video 6:36.

[@h_a.d-i5x]

good

[@Spadegtart]

I have another problem - when I try to import my animation, I press the import button, and them my animation and nothing happens. its like I never pressed the button to import it. I was having this problem earlier when I was trying a different method, but just creating a new place seemed to do the trick. This is for an actual came now though so I cant really just create a new one. Is this a common problem?

[@Spadegtart]

New problem lmfao, I can now import the animation by changing my blender settings, but it complete warps the rig.

[@MatthewDoesStuff451]

why don't textures load?

[@thealcatrazsyndrome]

Sometimes textures won't load because mixamo models have 2 texture base color images for a single mesh, and as far as I know, Roblox doesn't support this, stupid I know, the only workaround I've found is importing the model into blender, split the meshes so that each one has a single material with a single texture and then export back into mixamo and upload the character

[@Bee18037]

I’m struggling with the plugin which isn’t opening I tried to sort some stuff in plugin manager and it dosnt work

[@Bee18037]

Is there anyway to animate it without the plugin?

[@thealcatrazsyndrome]

If you're animating yourself you don't really need the plugin, otherwise another discord member had this issue and from what I remember he fixed it by uninstalling studio and clearing the cache and data folders in AppData

[@Bee18037]

Thank u very much I’ll try this

[@TwoVera]

Im a bit confused. Why would you need the animation resizer? I wish you showed what would happen if you used aniamtion that didnt resize or in the other case where you mentioned "if you dont do this then you get weird sliding". The video is good and concise but as someone who animates in blender Im a bit confused why one would use the tool.

[@alienisalien]

U gave answer already?

[@TwoVera]

​@@alienisalien One was a question the other was a suggestion. No i didnt answer myself on why you need the plugin.

[@alienisalien]

@@TwoVera Try without plugin and write to us please or i will try later.

[@thealcatrazsyndrome]

Right after I fix the scale on my character I show what happens to the animations, I'm like 99% sure we have to use this tool because mixamo has giant models apparently, and when you scale the rig and animation down, multiply it by the inverse factor, the root bone position in the key frames themselves go all crazy

[@thealcatrazsyndrome]

And just to mention, you don't have to use the plugin, you could just go through the animation key by key and fix it yourself, that's all the tool does

[@mokieaaa]

my character keeps falling through the floor, I've watched this 4 times and I'm trying to figure out what is happening. what did I do wrong?

[@thealcatrazsyndrome]

@@mokieaaa it's possible this happens during the first test in the video, however you can ignore that issue and continue with the tutorial. If it happens after following the whole tutorial, make sure your weld constraints are set up properly and your HumanoidRootPart is named correctly

[@CorwinTeg]

When using Team Test, i am able to see the animations on my friends, but from their point of view everybody has no animation and is just gliding around. How could i fix this?

[@thealcatrazsyndrome]

@@CorwinTeg just tested for a sanity check on 2 instances, works for me, not sure about the team create though as I've not much experience with that

[@CorwinTeg]

@@thealcatrazsyndrome hmm i just tested the 2 instances and it works! so i guess it is just an issue with team test. thanks!

[@metron-]

Hey, I an issue. When I import it, there isn't colour on the model. How to fix this?

[@TheGrimReaper19]

Honestly I have no idea. I have the same issue. I just end up splitting my mesh into multiple pieces and using Roblox to color it in-studio.

[@Spadegtart]

Hi, So I did the first few steps, but when you test play and move around while the character is t-posed, mine wouldn't move. None of the keys like wasd work or even jump. You were talking about a root part earlier. Could you help me?

[@thealcatrazsyndrome]

@@Spadegtart check if any of the root parts are anchored

[@Spadegtart]

@@thealcatrazsyndrome where do I find the root parts? I have none inside of my mesh, it just is like 3 bones with bones inside of those bones

[@Spadegtart]

@@thealcatrazsyndrome nvm I got it thank you so much

[@Free_mesh]

Very good video!! But I have a question, for some reason after my character jump the running animation breaks and the character starts running in place. You don't know what the problem is what the problem is?

[@thealcatrazsyndrome]

Hmm, not sure, did you change the jump animation or attempt scripting your own Animate script?

[@Free_mesh]

yes it happens with standard animate script but rarely I tried another script but it made the animations work worse

[@rilex5341]

Help my character slides when I stop running

[@kaxi3d]

watch the video he talks about it

[@alienisalien]

Still sliding foots..I'm using licensed Character Creator 4 :/

[@thealcatrazsyndrome]

Not sure what character creator 4 is, as for the sliding issue, make sure you reset the scale of the character inside StarterPlayer

[@alienisalien]

@@thealcatrazsyndrome I did everything as you show.trying again.

[@thealcatrazsyndrome]

@@alienisalien weird, not sure what the issue could be, the sliding happens if the scale isn't set to 1 on the character model, another fix could be dragging the character out to workspace, ungrouping everything and then regrouping it into a model, make sure the primary part is the root part of the root bone

[@alienisalien]

​@@thealcatrazsyndrome I will try second fix thanks.

[@alienisalien]

@@thealcatrazsyndrome mm When I used it from Mixamo, the model and animation worked as it should, but the rig I extracted from CC4 is not working properly. Thank you.

[@Stable_Citizen]

Can the starter character jump?

[@CathalsYTChannel]

wont let me animate says some thing about motors 6d

[@BarettReback]

my character doesnt move when i change hipheight

[@gauhthier]

Do you still have the problem?

[@OfficialCrownProductions]

what? theres no mesh??

[@vorplex1218]

I did the animation resizer plugin, the result was that my character was still floating in the air, if I tried to lower down the scale then it would still be at the same height in the air. Another problem to this is that I also noticed after I did this is that my animations are still sliding around and not all of them are at the correct height, I've had the animation resizer plugin for awhile I just can't seem to get it to work the way everyone else does. Got any tips?

[@thealcatrazsyndrome]

The sliding issue always comes up when you character model scale isn't set to 1, so I'm guessing the animation issue is related to that, you're not really supposed to wing the number, it should be the exact same value in the resizer that was your character model scale before setting it to 1

[@thealcatrazsyndrome]

And if you character is slightly above the ground, just decrease hip height

[@vorplex1218]

@@thealcatrazsyndrome so basically whats going on is that the hip height isn't the problem as the character is perfectly touching the baseplate without animations, just I think the issue that happened is that before I added animations or put it as a humanoid, the scale was always set to 1 no matter if I group it or not, I tried to also scale it down after seeing that the scale was set to 1, so I could see if I can get the problem fixed but yeah so far my rig is just being pretty confusing.

[@thealcatrazsyndrome]

@@vorplex1218 yeah that's pretty weird because if it was 1 from the start, you don't really need the resizer plugin

[@vorplex1218]

@@thealcatrazsyndrome Yeah what happened next when I followed your steps to rigging it, like you said in the video all of animations become jumpy and stuff and then you use the animation resizer so I'll see if I can try to figure something out but your video has helped me out somewhat with things I didn't know, so thanks for that!

[@starwarsvr8033]

is it just me or does my character keep falling trough the floor?

[@sirenittygamingyt]

I used the Paladin WProp J Norddstrom character and when i import it comes with an root part,i delete the root part and make my own HumanoidRootPart as said. The bones/rig of my character dont show like your's does

[@thealcatrazsyndrome]

@@sirenittygamingyt hey, thanks for watching, the root part of the character is supposed to be the "root part" of the bone groups, don't delete it

[@sirenittygamingyt]

@@thealcatrazsyndrome ahh thank you but should I delete the HumanoidRootPart now or keep it with the Rootpart?

[@thealcatrazsyndrome]

@@sirenittygamingyt keep both, they both server a different purpose

[@sirenittygamingyt]

@@thealcatrazsyndrome Alriht Thank you so much it was fixed! 😁

[@gravitrax6478]

if I make a model in blender and import it into Roblox, can I make animations for it in roblox studio?

[@kaxi3d]

yeah!!

[@gravitrax6478]

@@kaxi3d beautiful!!! tysm

[@Skillzlight838]

how do i make it hold a gun

[@thealcatrazsyndrome]

I might do a tutorial on this

[@thealcatrazsyndrome]

I've uploaded a video regarding tools and these skinned mesh characters

[@phheonnixx]

make a shorter version

[@b2stoned2talk-productions]

I can't move i can only rotate model help.

[@Swuak]

unanchor

[@BESTMI5T4KE]

I tried to do but it told me upload failed

[@RangerTicky]

when I do it, my rig just falls out the air with no camera connected

[@cocoMamaTV]

The Reason is your base and the model locations are not in the match positions

[@kaxi3d]

@@cocoMamaTV base?

[@IFindWiki]

problem: i did a character but when i put no collision it went through everything.

[@thealcatrazsyndrome]

@@IFindWiki you can set humanoid root part to can collide without worry

[@anderlinperezmendez7740]

@@thealcatrazsyndrome amigo tengo el mismo problema porfa ayudame

[@anderlinperezmendez7740]

lo lograste solucionar tengo el mismo error