How to make teleporting have an offset? [Solved]
My goal here is to make a handcuff system, where when the officer clicks a suspect, the suspect teleports to his hands hand he is sort of welded to the officer and has no control. My problem is that when I try to teleport the suspect to the officer with the offset script I've already made, it sometimes goes behind the officer instead of where I want him to go, which is in the front to the side a bit.
any help would be appreciated.
(first local script)
01 | local tool = script.Parent |
02 | local players = game:GetService("Players") |
03 | tool.Equipped:Connect(function(mouse) |
04 | mouse.Button1Down:Connect(function() |
05 | if mouse.Target and mouse.Target.Parent then |
06 | if mouse.Target.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then |
07 | game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage"):WaitForChild("ArrestGrab"):FireServer(mouse.Target.Parent) |
08 | end |
09 | end |
10 | end) |
11 | end) |
(Second script from server)
01 | game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage"):WaitForChild("ArrestGrab").OnServerEvent:Connect(function(officer,suspect) |
02 | if suspect.Settings.inCuffs.Value ~= true then |
03 | local officerChar = officer.Character |
04 | local a,b,c = officerChar.HumanoidRootPart.Position.X-1.5,officerChar.HumanoidRootPart.Position.Y,officerChar.HumanoidRootPart.Position.Z+1.5 |
05 | suspect.HumanoidRootPart.Position = Vector3.new(a,b,c) |
06 | officerChar.HumanoidRootPart.Orientation = suspect.HumanoidRootPart.Orientation |
07 | suspect:WaitForChild("Humanoid"):LoadAnimation(game:GetService("ServerStorage"):WaitForChild("Grab")):Play() |
08 | suspect:WaitForChild("Humanoid"):LoadAnimation(game:GetService("ServerStorage"):WaitForChild("Arrest")):Play() |
09 | end |
10 | end) |
(please ignore the un-used functions and such, I removed those bits to give a better understanding of what the actual problem is)
2 answers
Using position and orientation wouldn't be the best way to go, what you should use is something called CFrame. CFrame stands for Coordinate Frame and it accounts for a part's position in a 3-D axis as well as its rotation! You've got a 2-in-1 package to solve your problem :D
Here's what the second script looks like:
01 | game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage"):WaitForChild("ArrestGrab").OnServerEvent:Connect(function(officer, suspect) |
02 | if suspect.Settings.inCuffs.Value ~= true then |
03 | local officerChar = officer.Character |
04 |
05 | suspect.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame = officerChar.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame * CFrame.new(-1.5, 0, -2) |
06 | --This teleports the suspect 1.5 studs to the left of the officer, and 2 studs in front |
07 |
08 | suspect:WaitForChild("Humanoid"):LoadAnimation(game:GetService("ServerStorage"):WaitForChild("Grab")):Play() |
09 | suspect:WaitForChild("Humanoid"):LoadAnimation(game:GetService("ServerStorage"):WaitForChild("Arrest")):Play() |
10 | end |
11 | end) |
Explanation You are teleporting the suspect's HumanoidRootPart to the officer's HumanoidRootPart, and the Offset is expressed by multiplying the CFrame by CFrame.new(x, y, z), each corresponding to a stud measure. Rather than using Positions, which uses a global axis for positioning, use CFrame to express the local positioning of parts non-relative to the world!
I hope this helps :) HMU with any problems and questions
In case anybody has the same question, I figured it out myself by using CFrame and not Position.
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