How do I make a part visible once it reaches certain distance from player?
Hello. I'm trying to make a game based on tornadoes, and I used particle effects to create a realistic looking tornado. The only downfall with this is that particle effects are only visible within a certain short distance. What I am trying to do is make the base part for the tornado visible to a specific player once they get to far to see the particle effects, and invisible again when they can be seen. I know that I would have to work with a local script to do this, but I can't figure out anything. Any ideas?
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Put this in a local script in StarterPlayerScripts.
local myself = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local distanceToSeeTornado = 100 --Change this to whatever distance.
local gameStarted = true --Putting this in if you wanted a minigame sorta game. Make sure to modify this variable and set it accordingly to your minigame setup.
while true do
if gameStarted then
local tornado = workspace:FindFirstChild("TornadoPart") --Rename tornado part to whatever the base part is supposed to be named.
if myself:DistanceFromCharacter(tornado.Position) <= distanceToSeeTornado then
tornado.Transparency = 0 --Alternatively, you could replace 0 with 1 - (distanceToSeeTornado - myself:DistanceFromCharacter(tornado.Position))/100, though I'm not fully sure if that'll work.
else
tornado.Transparency = 1
end
end
wait()
end
If you don't need the minigame structure, just remove the gameStarted Variable and the 'if statement' used with it.
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I have managed to create my own script. It still doesn't work, but maybe this could give a good start to anyone trying to answer.
local funnel = script.Parent --Directory to base tornado part
game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player) --Starts when a player joines the game
local Player = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer.Name
local Character = workspace:FindFirstChild(Player)
while true do
if Character.UpperTorso then --Uses r15 characters
local magnitude = (Character.UpperTorso.Position - workspace.Tornado.Funnel.Position).Magnitude --Uses magnitude instead of "DistanceToPlayer"
if magnitude > 600 then --Distance I want tornado to be visible past
funnel.Transparency = 0
else
funnel.Transparency = 1
end
wait(1) --There are lot's of other things going on, so secondly updating would be better
end
end
end)
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