I need help with making specific parts transparent

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#1

I’m trying to make animated water. I have 12 transparent meshparts that look like water and for every 0.1 seconds only few meshparts are visible while the rest are not.

local WaterChildren = script.Parent:GetChildren()

while wait(0.2) do
	if WaterChildren.Name == "1" then
		WaterChildren.Transparency = 0
		wait()
	end
end

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For the first frame I want every meshpart under Water named “1” to become visible. It won’t work when I run the game. What am I doing wrong?

#2

You should Use for loops for this.
Example :

local WaterModel=script.Parent
for i, v in pairs(WaterModel:GetChildren()) do 
   if v:IsA("BasePart") and v.Name=="1" then end
       v.Transparency=1 -- This Sets All the Water Parts named "1" To Transparent.
   end
end
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#3

This isn’t working. The script is trying to make all the children under Water transparent instead of all the meshparts under the Block’s.

#4

The Script i gave was just an example, you can format it and use it as You want.
If you want to change ALL Meshparts Transparent you can Do

local WaterModel=script.Parent
for i, v in pairs(WaterModel:GetChildren()) do 
   if v:IsA("MeshPart") and v.Name=="1" then end
       v.Transparency=1 -- This Sets All the Water Parts named "1" To Transparent.
   end
end
#5

While Sub2Wheez is correct that you should use for loops they are using GetChildren which is getting the Block models instead of the actual parts. Try doing script.Parent:GetDescendants() instead of GetChildren

Your updated script would look something like:

local WaterModel = script.Parent

--GetDescendants gets all the children you could say, so its gets the children of the children
for Index, Value in pairs(WaterModel:GetDescendants()) do 
	--if its not a basepart the skip this iteration
	if not Value:IsA("BasePart") then continue end
	
	if Value.Name == "1" then
		Value.Transparency = 0
	else
		Value.Transparency = 1
	end
end

EDIT:
You can read more on GetDescendants here.

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