For ipairs isnt working for BasePart transparency

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#1

Hey guys and gals, today I have a problem. Again! I was trying to script something that when you touch a part, it will delete a tool in your inventory and then show a model. I got up to the point where it would remove the tool, but I haven’t been able to put transparency to 1 on all the baseparts in the model.

In short, when you touch a part, it should find the models children and then change the transparency to 0 on all of them (Making them visible.)

like this:

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My script is as follows:

script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
	local player = game:GetService("Players"):GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent)
	if player then
		print(player.Parent)
		local backpack = player:FindFirstChild("Backpack")
		if backpack then
			local flower =backpack:FindFirstChild("Flower")
			if flower then
				print("Flower")
				flower:Destroy()
				--print("Found flower")
				local children = workspace.StaticFlower1:GetChildren()
				for i, child in ipairs(children) do
					if child:IsA("Part") then
						child.Transparency=0
					end
				end
			end
		end
	end
end)

I put a few print statements in, but the only one that prints is the first one, which prints the parent of the player variable.

#2

Why don’t you use for in pairs Also check if it’s a basepart

	for i, child in pairs(children) do
					if child:IsA("BasePart") then
						child.Transparency=0
					end
				end
#3

Are they the same thing? And I was checking if the child is a BasePart

#4

You were checking if it’s a Part
BasePart = a Part or a Mesh.

ipairs() is used with arrays
pairs() works with dictionaries
Did it work?
Am I missing something?

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#5

pairs() returns key-value pairs and is mostly used for associative tables. key order is unspecified. pairs() returns index-value pairs and is mostly used for numeric tables .

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#6

I don’t think you need to use FindFirstChild on the backpack as that is always loaded on the player, so remove that if statement to remove some indentation.

The only other thing I think it could be is that you may be holding the flower when testing? If you hold a tool, it gets parented to the character, so also check if the player’s character has Flower

local flower = player.Character:FindFirstChild("Flower") or backpack:FindFirstChild("Flower")

also if you want o ensure all the parts become visible, change "Part" to "BasePart" and instead of GetChildren use GetDescendants

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#7

I have a question what’s the difference between basePart and part and what is GetDescendants? ive never used getDescendants

#8

Basepart basically is a MeshPart or a Part
Part is basically the a Part or a brick

Now for GetDescendants

Lets Say Model:GetDescendants()
It will get the Children of the Model
And the Children of the Part of the Model.

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#9

wow instead of getdescendants() ive been going model:getchildren():getchildren() I must go fix some code

#10

Thank you!!! I’m an idiot for not knowing that? But when the player is using a tool (has it in the hand,) does it get moved or does it get cloned?

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#11

It gets reparented to player’s character model.

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