Character Visibility Issues

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#1

Recently I have seen a bug on studio where I can’t turn parts in a player’s character invisible. They go invisible but a second after they turn visible again. This goes for all parts in the character, even accessories or tool handles.

I found that if I set the head of a player’s character to Transparency 1, it will appear invisible of the server however if I go to the client it will appear as Transparency 0. I haven’t had this bug previously before so I am not sure what the issue is.

  • This started to occur yesterday (7/24/2019) when I was fixing up a punch tool and the handle in the player was visible despite being set to Transparency 1.
  • It has prevented the Adonis admin’s :invisible command used in the group, Reality Playgrounds (where this is taking place). This command is used in some of our games.
  • I have tested this a lot and it always breaks.

Here is the code used in the :invisible command, which turns players invisible:

Code 
	for i, v in next,service.GetPlayers(plr,args[1]) do -- Adonis's way of getting players from arguments
		if v.Character then 
			for a, obj in next,v.Character:GetChildren() do 
				if obj:IsA("BasePart") then 
					obj.Transparency = 1 
					if obj:findFirstChild("face") then 
						obj.face.Transparency = 1 
					end 
				elseif obj:IsA("Accoutrement") and obj:findFirstChild("Handle") then 
					obj.Handle.Transparency = 1 
				elseif obj:IsA("ForceField") then
					obj.Visible = false
				elseif obj.Name == "Head" then
					local face = obj:FindFirstChildOfClass("Decal")
					if face then 
						face.Transparency = 1
					end
				end
			end
		end
	end

I’m new to posting here and mainly only reading, so if I did something wrong I apologize in advance :laughing:

#2

Do you have any conflicting code attempting to force character transparency? I would’ve said that the camera script is responsible for this behaviour, but it edits LocalTransparencyModifier which is a multiplier and not a write to the character’s actual transparency.

#3

I don’t believe so, by default this is loaded in by a module to all our games which adds certain guis to make my life easier. I will look further when I can come back on.

#4

If you set the transparency on the client side, did it still reset?

#5

Yes, if I set it from the server it stays transparent on the server however in the client it is visible still.
If I set it on the client it will simply turn visible again, same how it did by server.

Sometimes if I use the :invisible command it changes the transparency then about .2 seconds after it reverts to visible. On the server however it appears as if the character is all transparent.

Here’s a video: (I apologize for lag)

You see when I check what my head’s transparency in the server is, it returns 1, despite it appearing 0 in the client.

#6

Press Ctrl+Shift+F and search for. ‘.Transparency’

You will be presented a list of all the scripts that manipulate transparency in your game.

#7

I just removed the Admin loader from the module script and now it is working. This leads me to think it is something in Adonis causing this issue. I am going to investigate and see what this is.

#8

I checked everything and there isn’t anything changing transparency other than the actual :invisible and :visible commands, and some cape command which has no effect on it (checked by printing). Strange, since I do not remember changing anything here.