Why Won't this GetChildren() and Clone() work?
Hey! So now I am attempting to make a Bloom Effect using custom particles. Basically what I'm trying to do is make the ParticleEmitter to be cloned into every part in the Workspace but this isn't working. I am using a :GetChildren to get all the parts in the workspace (Obviously) and using Clone() to cloen the emitter in one block to put it in all the parts.
A = game.Workspace:GetChildren() Emit = game.Workspace.Emitter.Particle:Clone() for i,v in pairs(A) do if v.className == "Part" then Emit.Parent = v end end
Nothing is in the output again so I don't know what to do or what is wrong. Thanks! ~Minikitkat
2 answers
Just put the cloning line in the loop like this
A = game.Workspace:GetChildren() for i,v in pairs(A) do if v.className == "Part" then Emit = game.Workspace.Emitter.Particle:Clone() Emit.Parent = v end end
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I see what you're trying to do, but most of the time, shortcuts don't work like that.
You need to clone the emitter in the for loop and then set it's parent to the part. I would also recommend you "tab out" your code as it looks a lot cleaner.
A = game.Workspace:GetChildren()
Emit = game.Workspace.Emitter.Particle
for i,v in pairs(A) do
if v.className == "Part" then
local e = Emit:Clone() --We now clone the emitter every time a part is detected.
e.Parent = v --Set the clone's parent to the part.
end
end
However, that will only work for parts. What about wedge parts and unions? You can use IsA for the wedge parts to check if the part is a BasePart. You can also add in another condition using and for the Union Operations.
A = game.Workspace:GetChildren()
Emit = game.Workspace.Emitter.Particle
for i,v in pairs(A) do
if v:IsA("BasePart") or v:IsA("UnionOperation") then --Checks if the part is a part or a union.
local e = Emit:Clone() --We now clone the emitter every time a part is detected.
e.Parent = v --Set the clone's parent to the part.
end
end