How would I make parts circle diagonally around a character?

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#1

Hello! So I would like to find out how to make parts spin diagonally around a character in different directions. Something a bit like this, if anyone could help it would be much appreciated.

#2

Have a go at this, it’s far from ideal, or even remotely the best way to do it, but at least it gives you some idea of the mathematics involved. Just put this in a LocalScript parented under StarterCharacterScripts.

game.Lighting.ClockTime = 0;
math.randomseed(os.clock());

local parts = {};
local seeds = {};
local function makePart(pos)
	
	local part = Instance.new("Part");
	part.Size = Vector3.new(1,1,1);
	part.Shape = Enum.PartType.Ball;
	part.Color = Color3.new(0.5,1,0.5);
	part.Parent = game.Workspace;
	part.CanCollide = false;
	part.Anchored = true;
	part.Material = Enum.Material.Neon;
	part.Position = pos + Vector3.new(math.random(),math.random(),math.random());
	local light = Instance.new("PointLight",part);
	light.Color = part.Color;
	local emitter = Instance.new("ParticleEmitter",part);
	emitter.VelocityInheritance = Vector3.new(-50,0,-50);
	emitter.Rate = 200;
	emitter.Drag = 0.1;
	emitter.EmissionDirection = "Bottom";
	emitter.Texture = "rbxassetid://7412493185";
	emitter.Lifetime = NumberRange.new(0.3);
	emitter.Color = ColorSequence.new(part.Color);
	emitter.Transparency = NumberSequence.new(0,1);
	table.insert(parts,part);
	table.insert(seeds,math.random(-20,20)/10);
end

local start = tick();
local radius = 3;
local fw = -1;
local fv = 0.01;
local hrp = script.Parent:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart",3);
for i=0, 5 do
	makePart(hrp.Position);
end

while true do
	
	local t = tick()-start;
	for i, part in pairs(parts) do
		local x = (radius-seeds[i])*math.cos(t*i);
		local z = (radius-seeds[i])*math.sin(t*i);
		part.Position = hrp.Position + Vector3.new(x,seeds[i]+fw,z);
		part.PointLight.Brightness = 5*math.random();
		part.ParticleEmitter.Size = NumberSequence.new(math.random(),0.5);
		
		fw += fv;
		if fw > 3 or fw < -2 then
			fv *= -1;	
		end
		
	end
	wait();
	
end

Sorry forgot you said different directions, play around with this part for different effects, this one goes opposite directions.

local x = (radius-seeds[i])*math.cos(t*i);
local z = (radius-seeds[i])*math.sin(t*i);
part.Position = hrp.Position + Vector3.new(i*seeds[i]*x,seeds[i]+fw,z);

This is cool too:

local x = fw*(radius-seeds[i])*math.cos(t*i*seeds[i]);
local z = fw*(radius-seeds[i])*math.sin(t*i*seeds[i]);
part.Position = hrp.Position + Vector3.new(seeds[i]*x,seeds[i]+fw,seeds[i]*z);
#4

Here’s an example of it working. It uses a lot of math.random() so essentially it will be very different every time you run it. If you run it and find a nice motion you want to keep, just break into the code and copy the vales stored in the seeds table which is created here table.insert(seeds,math.random(-20,20)/10).

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