Can't make player's characters transparent?

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#1

This seems to only happen with R15 characters in my game. When they join, I look through all the descendants of their character and set their transparency to something like 0.5, but this only works for R6 characters. Why is that?

#2

can you show the script for the transparency

#4 
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local ReplicatedFirst = game:GetService("ReplicatedFirst")
local RunService = game:GetService("RunService")

RunService.Stepped:Wait()
local transparency = ReplicatedFirst:WaitForChild("Config",5):WaitForChild("PlayerTransparency",5).Value

local function ghost(player)
	if player == Players.LocalPlayer then return end
	RunService.RenderStepped:Wait()
	for k,v in pairs(player.Character:GetDescendants()) do
		print(k,v)
		if pcall(function() return v.Transparency end) and v.Name ~= ("HumanoidRootPart") then
			v.Transparency = transparency
		end
	end
end

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player) 
	if player.Character then ghost(player.Character) end
	player.CharacterAppearanceLoaded:Connect(function() ghost(player) end)
end)

for k,v in pairs(Players:GetPlayers()) do
	ghost(v)
end

Let me know if you find anything… :confused:

#5

is this a localscript, if it is, you don’t need playeradded because the localscript will be automatically put into the player

#6

you can do something like:

local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local ReplicatedFirst = game:GetService("ReplicatedFirst")

local transparency = ReplicatedFirst:WaitForChild("Config",5):WaitForChild("PlayerTransparency",5).Value

local function ghost(player)
    if player then
        local character = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
        for _, child in pairs(character:GetDescendants()) do
            if child:IsA("BasePart") and child.Name ~= "HumanoidRootPart" then
                if not transparency then
                    transparency = .5
                end
                child.Transparency = tonumber(transparency) or .5
            end
        end
    end
end

for _, player in pairs(Players:GetPlayers()) do
    if player ~= Players.LocalPlayer then
        ghost(player)
    end
end
#7

I suggest changing:

for _, player in pairs(Players:GetPlayers()) do
    if player ~= Players.LocalPlayer then
        ghost(player)
    end
end

into

for _, player in pairs(Players:GetPlayers()) do
    if player ~= Players.LocalPlayer then
        ghost(player)
        Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(character)
            ghost(player)
        end
    end
end

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
    if player ~= Players.LocalPlayer then
        ghost(player)
        Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(character)
            ghost(player)
        end
    end
end)

As now if a player respawns or a new player joins and respawns they become invisible as well.

#8

The R15 players are still not transparent… This is strange. Is it not possible to change the Transparency of their body parts? :thinking:

#9

Im pretty sure you can, because in Frosted studio’s infection game, there are ghost zombies.
Try making the parts into forcefield material

#10

Because you put a value directly to ReplicatedFirst.Config.PlayerTransparency
and if the transparency value changes the variable doesn’t get changed as the variable isn’t holding the object value, but a number value. so what you gotta do:

For the variable:

local transparency = `ReplicatedFirst.Config.PlayerTransparency`

When calling the value:

transparency.Value

(But if you want the value to be constant keep it like you had it before)

#11

I found the issue,
A few of the end’s didn’t have a ) behind them while they were calling from a function and I edited something else, that when the player joins they don’t get instantly ghosted, as their character didn’t load.
It should be this:

for _, player in pairs(Players:GetPlayers()) do
    ghost(player)
	player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(character)
		ghost(player)
	end)
end

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(character)
		ghost(player)
	end)
end)

Instead of the last thing I showed you, tho the message I made before might help too.

#12

I got another edit to the ghost function, to check if the character of the player is even valid; the whole script; otherwise it would bug out if a player who is already in game doesn’t have a character.

local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local ReplicatedFirst = game:GetService("ReplicatedFirst")
local RunService = game:GetService("RunService")

RunService.Stepped:Wait()
local transparency = ReplicatedFirst:WaitForChild("Config",5):WaitForChild("PlayerTransparency",5)

local function ghost(player)
	if player == Players.LocalPlayer or player.Character == nil then return end
	RunService.RenderStepped:Wait()
	for k,v in pairs(player.Character:GetDescendants()) do
		print(k,v)
		if pcall(function() return v.Transparency end) and v.Name ~= ("HumanoidRootPart") then
			v.Transparency = transparency.Value
		end
	end
end

for _, player in pairs(Players:GetPlayers()) do
	ghost(player)
	player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(character)
		ghost(player)
	end)
end

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(character)
		ghost(player)
	end)
end)

You could even make it so that when the value changes you change the transparency of every player.

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