Character

A Character is the live Model exposed by a player’s Player.Character field. It is not a separately constructible Vortex class. Obtain it from the local player in a LocalScript or from a Player returned by Players:GetPlayers() in a server Script.

-- LocalScript
local character = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer.Character

-- Script
local player = game:GetService("Players"):GetPlayers()[1]
local character = player and player.Character

Confirmed public projection

In Vortex Studio 0.3.4, the live Character reports ClassName == "Model". The observed public fields are ClassName, Name, Position, Humanoid, and HumanoidRootPart. Parent reads as nil.

The tested generic Instance methods are available, including GetChildren, GetDescendants, FindFirstChild, FindFirstChildOfClass, WaitForChild, IsA, and the attribute/property-signal methods. The Character’s tested hierarchy and lifecycle signals are unavailable; its Changed signal is connectable. Model pivot and primary-part APIs are unavailable.

Character:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") and Character:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart") resolve the same direct values as the public fields. The tested standard R6/R15 limb names are absent from this public projection.

Write-only visual rotation

Character.Orientation is the confirmed server-side route for turning the visible Character. Assigning Vector3.new(0, 90, 0) visibly quarter-turns the character even though Character.Orientation is nil before the assignment and remains nil after it. Treat it as a write-only visual command rather than readable transform state:

character.Orientation = Vector3.new(0, 90, 0)

After the visual turn, Orientation, Rotation, and CFrame remained nil on Player, Character, the public root, Humanoid, Scene, Armature, visual root, Torso, limbs, and Head. The exposed visual hierarchy supplies Position values only; it does not expose the resulting yaw for readback.

This differs from Player.Orientation, which retains an assigned value but has no verified visible turn effect, and from the public HumanoidRootPart, which rejects the write.

Visual Scene projection

Character:GetChildren() returns an unnamed generic Instance. After a short loading delay, that wrapper can expose a separate Scene property containing the rendered armature, body meshes, limbs, and avatar-specific attachments. It is a transient renderer projection rather than normal Character hierarchy.

Once that visual Scene is available, the observed direct-member route is:

local wrapper = character:GetChildren()[1]
local scene = wrapper.Scene
local armature = scene["Armature.001"]
local visualRoot = armature.HumanoidRootPart
local torso = visualRoot.Torso
local rightLeg = torso["Right Leg"]
local body = scene.Body

local VisualTorso = body["R7Body.Material.001"]
local VisualHead = body["R7Body.Material.002"]
local VisualRightArm = body["R7Body.Material.004"]
local VisualLeftArm = body["R7Body.Material.005"]
local VisualRightLeg = body["R7Body.Material.007"]
local VisualLeftLeg = body["R7Body.Material.008"]

Names containing dots or spaces require bracket syntax. HumanoidRootPart, Torso, and Head are direct members on their respective visual nodes. This visual root is not the restricted public character.HumanoidRootPart Part projection.

The Scene can be replaced while the Character itself remains available. A replacement destroys old visual instances, so stored limb or accessory references cannot be reparented into the new Scene. Resolve the current visual Scene again whenever it is needed. See Model: Transient Character visual Scene for the full observed tree, visual-node surface, and attachment details.

The tested visual HumanoidRootPart and Torso also discard an Orientation write without error: the value remains nil on readback. They are not a rotation-control route.

The tested R7Body.Material does not have working properties (Position, size, etc.), the only working property is :Destroy() from testing.

Lifecycle limitation

The Player’s standard CharacterAdded signal is not exposed in the tested runtime: it remained nil in both Script and LocalScript for a dedicated 15-second observation. Poll Player.Character and the visual Scene route instead of waiting for that signal.