Making all parts within a door model invisible when player touches the hitbox?

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#1

Ultimately, I wanted a door to open with tweens for aesthetic reasons. However, I am not skilled enough to really figure this out. Apparently not skilled enough to do this simple script either as I’ve been at this for hours now.

I’ve settled on a goal to make all parts of this door go invisible and make a “dummy door” so that it looks like it opens instantly. (Similar to how minecraft works) One door model is transparent and you can collide, then vice versa when it’s opened.

Below is the code I’m using, and I can’t seem to get all the parts within this model to vanish when the “hitbox” part is touched.

local Door = script.Parent.Parent:GetChildren()
local ButtonDebounce = false
local DoorDebounce = false
script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
	if hit.Parent:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("Humanoid") and not DoorDebounce and not ButtonDebounce then
		for i = 1, #Door do
			DoorDebounce = true
			ButtonDebounce = true
			Door.CanCollide = false
			Door.Transparency = 1
			task.wait(5)
			DoorDebounce = false
			ButtonDebounce = false
		end
	end
end)

Attached is the door model and its’ children.
Example

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#2

I think you nearly answered your whole question on your own. Perhaps you can :GetChildren() and use a for loop to make all parts inside the model invisible via Transparency?

#3

I would use a different kind of for loop:

local Door = script.Parent.Parent:GetChildren()
local ButtonDebounce = false
local DoorDebounce = false
script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
	if hit.Parent:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("Humanoid") and not DoorDebounce and not ButtonDebounce then
		for i, v in pairs(Door) do
			DoorDebounce = true
			ButtonDebounce = true
			v.CanCollide = false
			v.Transparency = 1
			task.wait(5)
			DoorDebounce = false
			ButtonDebounce = false
		end
	end
end)
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#4

You’re only iterating over the number of doors, not the doors themselves, if you get what I mean. Using a for loop is the right call, but you forgot something :

DoorDebounce = true -- place the debounce outside of the loop
ButtonDebounce = true
task.delay(5, function() -- use task.delay to delay resetting the debounce values
	DoorDebounce = false
	ButtonDebounce = false
end)

-- go through every door in the Door array
for i = 1, #Door do
	local door = Door[i] -- this is what you forgot
	
	-- checking the object's name because door parts are named "Door" in your model
	if door.Name == "Door" then
		door.CanCollide = false
		door.Transparency = 1
		task.wait(5)
		-- make the part visible and collidable again (idk if this was intentional)
		door.CanCollide = true
		door.Transparency = 0
	end
end

You can also write the loop slightly differently to not have to manually set the door variable :

for i, door in Door do
	-- code here, without the local door thing
end