Hey there dev forum members! Or non dev forum members reading this from looking something up!
I have a question for you today for a project I want to start.
So, I want to be able to grow plants and I don’t want it to just go from 1 “life cycle” to the other without animation and polishing, how can I tween this growing and randomize the vine bending/placement?
What I don’t want (one cycle to another):
This just skips ahead with no animations
What I want:
etc.
The plant tweens through random growth and different paths for each plant.
Thanks in advance! I would like to make a system afterwards where I can put a total time it will grow and it will automatically tween through without having for me to manually set time between stages
My idea is you need to make a basic wooden stick with Attachment(s) in in. When certain random time is passed, tween the length of the stick and create a new stick/lead/flower at the Attachment(s) point.
Hmm… This is a good idea! Although, the smoothness I was originally going for may degrade performance here as I would have to make very small sticks. I will keep this on my mind incase I don’t find any other solutions! Plus there possibly be 100s of plants
Heh that’s a new one! Hmm let’s see if I wanted to colonize roblox with an alien plant what would I do…
Ok 1st idea best idea!
Make the individual stems of various length/shape (some just straight, some with preset smaller branch offs with flower ends) that you are happy with along with separate basic flower heads.
On each stem place some anchor points, 1 top, 1 bottom, and up to 4 “possible” branch off locations.
In addition you create a basic 1x1x1 transparent block with a single anchor to be replicated at a rate of let’s say 1:4 cubes to stems.
Use the PartCache (posted in forums here) to keep a surplus of applicable extension parts out of performance effecting range.
Now you have the system call at random “Part for X flower” to fill in all the available anchor spots of objects attached to “rootPlant”. Some will get a transparent block (no growth) some will get instant flower (tiny plant) and some may get huge stems ready to bloom at a later time. Each time this process runs the plant will grow until all anchor points are filled with toppers.
-They might be funny looking plants but it will certainly be random and growing!
