How to hide the other players locally?

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#1

Basically, i did a customization system and i want to hide the other players(Only by the client) when the player is changing the character.

What is the best way to do this?

#2

Loop through every other player and change the transparency for all of their parts to 1. You would also have to store all their accessories in a table and then delete them ingame.

You could send a snippet of code so we can implement it for you.

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#3

Should i get the players and then get the parts? Can i see a exemple of this?

#4

Exactly.

Something like this should work: (just for changing the transparency)

local Players = game:GetService("Players")

local LocalPlayer = Players.LocalPlayer

--//Set a character's transparency to 1
local function SetCharacterTransparency(character)
	for i, descendant in ipairs(character:GetDescendants()) do
		if not descendant:IsA("BasePart") then
			continue
		end

		descendant.Transparency = 1
	end
end

--//Set all player's character's transparency to 1
for i, player in ipairs(Players:GetPlayers()) do
	if player == LocalPlayer then
		continue
	end
	
	player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(character)
		if not player:HasAppearanceLoaded() then
			player.CharacterAppearanceLoaded:Wait()
		end
		
		SetCharacterTransparency(character)
	end)
	
	if not player.Character then
		continue
	end
	
	SetCharacterTransparency(player.Character)
end

If you would like, you can send me a game file and I can add this in.

#5

I think you would find BasePart.LocalTransparencyModifier quite useful.

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#6

Yes, that would work, however you should probably make this effective on players joining, not just respawning.

#7

So, this localscript just set the transparency of my player to 1, i still can see the other players.

#8

Hm that’s weird, it works fine for me. Are you sure you have no other scripts affecting it?

#9

Yea I just made a quick script, there are definitely improvements that can be made.

#10

Set the other players’ character’s parent to nil or a folder outside of the Workspace (which would probably be better). But you’ll have to account for new characters being added, as well as setting removing those references if a player leaves in order to avoid memory leaks. This last part can be ignored if you go with a folder option as you won’t have to keep any references in memory and can just iterate through the folder.

#11

Do you have a StarterCharacter in your game? I suppose that could effect something.

I found this topic really useful:

Hope this helps :slight_smile:

#12

I did something like this:

for i ,player in ipairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
local character = player.Character
character = nil
end

It worked, but when a new player enters the server, the script don’t work. Btw the faces, accessories don’t disappear, how to fix it?

#13

This works for all player character’s currently in game, but you need to create a PlayerAdded connection to remove new character’s along with a character added event for all the player’s

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