How to make wood breaking effect?

[Swatz94 (ILikeTurtles)]

I have a tree part that players can chop at with an axe. However, I want to add a wood shatter effect (dust of wood flying into the air) so it looks like they’re actually doing something. Is that possible in Roblox?

[Oonzii]

Yes, it is possible. There are a variety of sounds in the Roblox toolbox you could use or you could upload your own (I believe it costs robux though). You can use a script inside your axe that plays the sound when you want.
Here are some resources you can use:
https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/function/Sound/Play

Having trouble implementing sound to my tool

Well the issue here is that you haven’t put sound into the function handles the animations. Same thing with you’re animations - you’re using animations on a key press, and sounds on a click. Obviously they won’t work together, as they’re separated. If you want them both on a click, you’d put them together: Sword.Activated:Connect(function() Sword.Handle.Slash:Play() -- animation here end) And vice versa for on a key press.

Sound not playing in Tool

Thank you it worked! However my sword is an on-key animation weapon, so whenever you press a key it plays an attack move, how would I implement the sound so when I hit a key it plays both the animation and sound, because so far it only happens when I click.

[Swatz94 (ILikeTurtles)]

Not necessarily a sound effect, but a “particle” effect?

[Oonzii]

Oh I see, this will be a lot more complicated.

I’m not the best with particles, but hopefully this will help:
The approach I would try is creating an “explosion” of particles, Particle Explosion, and having it trigger when the axe collides with the wood part, Detecting Collisions | Roblox Creator Documentation. You would have to either create or find your own decals for the particles though.

Here are some more articles that may help you:
Intro to Raycasting
Particle Emitters

Good luck!