Help on cloning multiple times and setting the angle randomly

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#1

I’m trying to recreate something similar to this video - YouTube I’ve been trying different methods to get it but I have had two main problems 1 cloning the object multiple times 2 setting the angles randomly relatively around the enemy player. heres my a snippet of my current code:

	local getTouchingParts = game.Workspace:FindPartsInRegion3(region, player.Character.HumanoidRootPart, math.huge)
	
		for i,v in pairs(getTouchingParts) do 
			if v.Parent.Name ~= player.Name then
				
			local tablec = {}
			
		for count = 1, 25 do
					local lc = lightMesh:Clone()
				
			table.insert(tablec, lc)
				

				for index, lc  in ipairs(tablec) do
					lc.Anchored = true
					lc.Position = player.Character.HumanoidRootPart.Position
					
						lc.Parent = workspace
						
					end
					local TheTable = {-42, 42} 

					local RandomAtTable = TheTable[math.random(#TheTable)]
					
					lc.CFrame = CFrame.Angles(math.rad(math.random(1, 42), math.rad(0),  math.rad(0)))
				end
			end
		end
#2

For setting rotation randomly you can do something like this

workspace.Part.Rotation = Vector3.new(math.random(1,42),0,0)

So in your case:

lc.Rotation = Vector3.new(math.random(1,42),0,0)
#3

Part rotation can’t be assigned directly. You’ll need to use CFrame angles:

lc.CFrame = lc.CFrame * CFrame.Angles(math.rad(math.random(0,359)),0,0)
#4

any ideas on how to make the cloning work?

#5

It works for me in my studio environment :man_shrugging:

#6

If the variable lc is an object within the game you can call do something like

myClone = lc:Clone()

and go from there.

So for example you could do myClone.Anchored = true

#7

did you look at the script ive gotten pretty far on cloning it i mean cloning mutiple times

#8

It looks like your clone should be working, but I think your issue is that you need to finish the first for loop before you continue to the next and set everything, however I would just have one for loop and do everything in there, no need to put it all into a table until you want to do stuff with it later; you can set their position and rotation right after you create the clone.

#9

your rotation with cframe worked thank you, any ideas on how it could look like in the video with the x shape i thought about just making two separate clones and setting there rotation to -42 and 44 each so it would look more of a x shape what do you think?

#10

Are you referring to the cartoon ‘slashes’ in the video?

#11

the thing about 2.5 seconds into the video is what im talking about when he dashes forward with the whiteish spikes around the enemy characters

#12

Since when were you not able to assign rotation?

#13

Since forever. Same with position. The CFrame functions and methods should be used instead for part transformations. The only time I can think of where you can directly use the position and orientation properties are when tweening objects.

#14

It still looks like each slash is a random rotation. The video appears to use billboard UIs instead of parts for those effects but I might be wrong.