How do i move models?

[Faczki]

Hey, i want to make a cutscene for my game, where you go in a space station in a small ship, for that i’d need to make the entire model of the spaceship move and the Union that is the door open, how can i do that?

By that i mean how can i make the model and the union move.

[GAFFAL_1236 (Gaffal)]

You can set a PrimaryPart and use:

model:SetPrimaryPartCFrame(CFrame.new(x, x, x))

It moves the whole model based on PrimaryPart

If you want smooth movements, try out CFrame:Lerp(),

or:

Introduction to Tweening Models

Edit (06/30/2021): Due to the release of the new pivot APIs and the thankful deprecation of SetPrimaryPartCFrame, the legacy method of CFraming is now also appropriate and you do not necessarily need to use this welding method. Do note that the pivot CFrame is different from the PrimaryPart CFrame though, so you will have to account for that when writing your proxy objects. Edit (05/31/2023): Roblox has an official code sample for model tweening! It’s very lightweight and covers the necessities…