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name: roblox-characters description: Roblox characters and avatars: Humanoid, R6/R15, character customization. Use when working with player characters.

Characters Reference

Quick Reference

• Adaptive Animation: Set up your character rig to support universal sets of animations and emotes.
• Character appearance: Customize your in-experience character appearance and properties.
• Emotes: Emotes are character animations used through chat commands, or accessing the emotes menu.
• Characters: Characters are interactive models that interact with the world or other users.
• Character name/health display: You can customize character UI, like name and health displays, using Class.Humanoid.
• Character pathfinding: Pathfinding is the process of moving a character along a logical path to reach a destination.
• R6 to R15 Adapter: The R6 to R15 adapter enables R15 avatar characters to join your R6 experience.
• Photo-to-Avatar generation: Explains how to use AvatarCreationService AvatarGeneration APIs to prompt users to generate Avatars from photos in experience.
• Avatar in-experience creation: Explains how to use AvatarCreationService to prompt users to create and purchase avatars from within your experience.
• Create avatar items: Create and upload avatar characters, clothing, and accessories to the Roblox Marketplace.

Detailed Reference

Characters

See characters.md for:

• Adaptive Animation
• Character appearance
• Emotes
• Characters
• Character name/health display
• ...and 2 more

Avatar

See avatar.md for:

• Photo-to-Avatar generation
• Avatar in-experience creation
• Create avatar items
• Resources
• Tutorials