Hi guys.
I think everyone knows how to make conveyor at roblox: Create anchored part and add velocity to it, and everything what will get on it will be moved.
But how I can do unanchored conveyor? Velocity will just affect itself, and not push things ontop of it.
just asking why would u want a conveyor that doesnt push objects, also can u explain more on unanchored conveyor
I don’t need not working conveyor. I want to make it unanchored. Like I have a model of conveyor, which initially anchored, but when game destroys it (by setting health variable to 0), conveyor prop will unanchor, but still should operate.
You got 2 options:
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Use touched events to detect parts touching the conveyor then apply velocity to the parts in the direction of the look vector of the conveyor (you can add velocity with Impulses)
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Do a spatial check around the conveyor and then add a LinearVelocity to the parts within the bounds of the said spatial check, Remove for parts that are outside of it.
A thing id like to mention is that Touched events are not accurate at all and even though they are Easy to use they are SUPER BAD. A better alternative that is a bit more computionally expensive is Raycasting. Just cast a ray from the Postition of the parts you want to move towards the ground (-Vector.yAxis / Vector.new(0,-1,0) first is better tho as it doesnt create a new vector)
Then just apply velocity to the parts that are in contact with the conveyor.
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To check parts near conveyor I can use workspace:GetPartBoundsInBox(), I were struggling with moving aspect of conveyor.
I’ll try what you suggested.
If you want i can provide you with an bare bones example code.
I had to make some for my bowling pinsetter mechanisms. I used GetTouchingParts to get what parts were touching then apply velocity based on that.
local conveyor = script.Parent --The conveyor part. Ensure it's LookVector is facing the direction of movement.
local speed = 5 --Change this number depending on if you want parts to go faster or slower
local rs = game:GetService("RunService") --The RunService
rs.Heartbeat:Connect(function() --This runs every physics frame
for i, v in pairs(conveyor:GetTouchingParts()) do --Get what parts are touching the conveyor.
if v.Anchored == false then --We only want to move unanchored parts, if we attempt to set velocity to anchored parts, they would become conveyors themselves!
v.Velocity = conveyor.CFrame.lookVector * speed --Apply velocity, this will make the part move in the direction of the conveyor's LookVector.
end
end
end)
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Weld it to an anchored part. 
In a half year, I have came to conclusion that either this or manual physics calculations are options.
And, with your variant, conveyor will be slower than anchored a bit.
Anyways, thanks.
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