How can I make my custom humans tween toward the person who spawned them?
Hey everyone! At the moment I am writing a class for everything that lives in a game I am making. This class is set up as follows currently:
- Object is constructed with a
SelfMesh(part in workspace) - Object is given properties (type, occupied, and age)
I have wrote a basic life function called Life:Animate() which at the moment allows the life form to perform five life choices and then they die.
While I am fairly confident the actual life cycle works - the issue seems to be in the possible life choice Life:GoToParent(), in which the life form is supposed to walk toward the person who spawned it. [tl;dr read this paragraph]
(currently the life forms seem to run toward the middle of the baseplate and start to pile up instead of running toward the person who spawned them)
This is the current setup, and my attempt [focus :Animate() and :GoToParent()]:
local Life = {}
Life.__index = Life
function Life.new(initType, trueObject, parent)
local thisObject = {}
setmetatable(thisObject, Life)
thisObject.Type = initType
thisObject.SelfMesh = trueObject
thisObject.Guardian = parent
thisObject.Occupied = false
thisObject.Age = 0
return thisObject
end
function Life:GoToParent()
self.Occupied = true
local Parent = game:GetService("Players"):FindFirstChild(self.Guardian.Name).Character.HumanoidRootPart
local SolvedCFrame = CFrame.new(self.SelfMesh.CFrame.p, Parent.Position)
local Direction = (self.SelfMesh.Position).Unit
game:GetService("TweenService"):Create(self.SelfMesh, TweenInfo.new(5), {Position = Vector3.new(self.SelfMesh.Position + Direction)}):Play()
wait(5)
self.Occupied = false
end
function Life:Animate(p)
self.SelfMesh.CFrame = CFrame.new(p) * CFrame.new(0,1,0)
repeat
----------- Life Cycle
local LifeChoice = Random.new():NextInteger(1,1)
if LifeChoice == 1 then
self:GoToParent()
repeat wait() until self.Occupied == false
end
self.Age = self.Age + 1
-----------
until self.Age == 5
self:Death()
end
function Life:Death()
self.SelfMesh:Destroy()
self = nil
end
return Life
All help is appreciated, thank you!
1 answer
On this line:
game:GetService("TweenService"):Create(self.SelfMesh, TweenInfo.new(5), {Position = Vector3.new(self.SelfMesh.Position + Direction)}):Play()
You are constructing a new Vector3 with a Vector3 inside of it rather than trying to give it an actual position with numbers. Hence, it is interpreting it as position 0, 0, 0, which is the center of the baseplate. Getting rid of the Vector3.new() should fix this:
game:GetService("TweenService"):Create(self.SelfMesh, TweenInfo.new(5), {Position = self.SelfMesh.Position + Direction}):Play()
This solves your problem, but I see that Direction is a unit vector, which means its size is only 1 stud, so it won't travel too far from self.SelfMesh.Position. Just a heads up.
Additionally, I would like to suggest making use of the .Completed event of Tween rather than explicitly waiting out the length of the tween. Something like this should suffice:
local tween = game:GetService("TweenService"):Create(self.SelfMesh, TweenInfo.new(5), {Position = self.SelfMesh.Position + Direction})
tween:Play()
tween.Completed:Wait()
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