CharacterAutoLoads

NotReplicated

This item is not replicated across Roblox’s server/client boundary.

Property of: Players

Value Type: bool

Description:

The CharacterAutoLoads Players property indicates whether Characters will respawn automatically. The default value is true.

If this property is disabled (false), players Characters will not spawn until the Player/LoadCharacter function is called for each Player - including when players join the game.

This can be useful in games where players have finite lives, such as competitive games in which players do not respawn until a game round ends.

Code Samples

This example demonstrates one possible usage of the Players/CharacterAutoLoads property.

The example below respawns all players in the game, if dead, once every 10 seconds. This means that players who die 1 second after all players respawn must wait 9 seconds until the script loads all Player/Character again.

First, this script removes a player’s character when they die and the Humanoid/Died function fires. This is done so that the respawn loop that executes every 10 seconds reloads that player when it does not find the player’s character in the Workspace.

To work as expected, this example should be run within a Script.

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-- Set CharacterAutoLoads to false
game.Players.CharacterAutoLoads = false

-- Remove player's character from workspace on death
game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	while true do
		local char = player.CharacterAdded:wait()
		char.Humanoid.Died:Connect(function()
			char:Remove()
		end)
	end
end)

-- Respawn all dead players once every 10 seconds
while true do
	local players = game.Players:GetChildren()
	
	-- Check if each player is dead by checking if they have no character, if dead load that player's character
	for i, player in pairs (players) do		
		if (not game.Workspace:FindFirstChild(player.Name)) then
			player:LoadCharacter()
		end
	end

	-- Wait 10 seconds until next respawn check
	wait(10)
end

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