I haven’t found any solutions because I don’t really know what I should look up for something like this
basically the script adds fingers to the player model that are animatable, but I want to be able to add more without causing too much clutter in my current script
local rs = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local plr = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer
local char = plr.Character or plr.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local left_pointer = rs:WaitForChild("Models").Hands.Left["Left Pointer"]:Clone()
local left_pointer6D = rs:WaitForChild("Models").Hands.Left["Left Pointer6D"]:Clone()
left_pointer.Parent = char:WaitForChild("Left Arm")
left_pointer6D.Parent = char:WaitForChild("Left Arm")
left_pointer6D.Part0 = char:WaitForChild("Left Arm")
left_pointer6D.Part1 = left_pointer
Please do not ask people to write entire scripts or design entire systems for you. If you can’t answer the three questions above, you should probably pick a different category.
To add animatable parts you need to connect the parts using a Motor6D and then edit animations on a rig with the new limbs connected. Part0 should be towards the root part and Part1 should be the limb.
C0 will determine the point where, with respect to Part0, the animated limb will rotate around.
If you are adding fingers I would create the rig in studio and clone the hand into the character. Then assign the Part0 property to the arm parts.
I know this stuff, I just want to know how to do it more efficiently rather than having to clone each finger and assign each part 0. I should have been more specific
for _,arm in {Char["Left Arm"], Char["Right Arm"]} do
for _,finger in rs.Fingers:GetChildren() do
local finger = finger:Clone()
finger.Joint.Part0 = arm
finger.Name = arm.Name..finger.Name
finger.Parent = Char
end
end
Also why are you getting the char only the first time?
Okay in that case, put this code into a function and handle the character like so inside of a server script instead of a local script.
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local function onPlayerAdded(Player : Player)
local function onCharacterAdded(Char : Model)
-- handle character
end
Player.CharacterAdded(onCharacterAdded)
end
Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(onPlayerAdded)
Try using pairs since you’re putting both arms in a table.
I use “ipairs” for the fingers because it iterates over the table in order.
for _, arm in pairs({Char["Left Arm"], Char["Right Arm"]}) do
for _, finger in ipairs(rs.Fingers:GetChildren()) do
local clonedFinger = finger:Clone() -- Rename variable to avoid overwritng
clonedFinger.Joint.Part0 = arm
clonedFinger.Name = arm.Name .. finger.Name
clonedFinger.Parent = Char
end
end
If you’re only have one finger then I would try without using pairs since you’re only cloning one model.
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local RepS = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local function onPlayerAdded(Player : Player)
local function onCharacterAdded(Char : Model)
local hands = RepS:WaitForChild("Models"):WaitForChild("Hands")
for _,arm in {Char["Left Arm"], Char["Right Arm"]} do
local hand = hands[arm.Name:sub(1, arm.Name:len()-5)]
for _,finger in RepS.Fingers:GetChildren() do
if finger:IsA("BasePart") then
local finger = finger:Clone()
local m6d = hand:FindFirstChild(finger.Name.."6D"):Clone()
m6d.Part0 = arm
m6d.Part1 = finger
m6d.Parent = arm
finger.Parent = Char
end
end
end
end
Player.CharacterAdded(onCharacterAdded)
if Player.Character then
task.spawn(onCharacterAdded, onCharacterAdded)
end
end
Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(onPlayerAdded)
for _,plr in Players:GetPlayers() do
task.spawn(onPlayerAdded, plr)
end
Generalized iteration is doing
for i,v in sometable do
-- stuff
end
instead of doing
for i,v in pairs(sometable) do
-- stuff
end
-- or
for i,v in next, sometable, nil do
end
The pairs function returns the next function, the table, and nil.
If you do print(pairs({1,2,3})), it prints function: 0xe87c106bbf74ead5 ▶ {...} nil
