Making models and tools with models transparent

[oddmy]

completely new to scripting so i’m still learning the basics. i’m working on a simple cooking feature that relies on transparency. however, the script fails when trying to make the tool transparent:

RamenPack is not a valid member of Tool “Workspace.oddmy.RamenPack”

i also want to exclude some parts/meshes within the tool and the tool’s handle when later running a 0 transparency loop. what should i use to achieve these things?

hopefully this strange script won’t come back to haunt me haha…

local cooking = script.Parent.Parent.RamenCook

script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function(Hit)
	if Hit.Parent.Name == 'RamenPack' then
		for i,v in pairs(cooking:GetDescendants()) do 
			if v:IsA("BasePart") or v:IsA("MeshPart") then
				v.Transparency = 1
			end
		end
		for i,v in pairs(Hit.Parent.RamenPack:GetDescendants()) do 
			if v:IsA("BasePart") or v:IsA("MeshPart") then
				v.Transparency = 1
			end
		end

[MysteryX2076 (DrMystery)]

In your second for loop, it should be Hit.Parent instead since that is the ramen pack (im judging from the error you got)

[oddmy]

yep that was the issue, thanks. how should i write the loop if i want to exclude certain models in the tool when doing v.Transparency = 0?

[MysteryX2076 (DrMystery)]

You could have a list of models that you want to blacklist when looking through

local Blacklist = {workspace.Duck,workspace.Car} -- Put your blacklisted models here

Then in your for loop…

for i,v in pairs(Hit.Parent:GetDescendants()) do
   if v:IsA('Model') and not table.find(Blacklist,v) then
      for i,v in pairs(v:GetDescendants()) do -- Since model does not have a transparency property, we need to loop through its parts
			if v:IsA("BasePart") or v:IsA("MeshPart") then
				v.Transparency = 1
			end
		end
   end
end