Mesh goes invisible in first person

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Hi, there is a mild problem I encountered while developing my game. It is how one of the meshes I am using just disappears when I go into first person. I tried figuring out the problem and I cannot seem to find an understandable solution. What I mean by understandable is that there was another thread like this but I am unable to find a solution: First Person Mode Help - Help and Feedback / Scripting Support - DevForum | Roblox

Screenshots:
3rd person: https://gyazo.com/3a782b1650a15e575882948b7608dd29
Closest to 1st person: https://gyazo.com/376726ae69ee72e736fe8c107ae0fcf9

The mesh moves around the player like a pet from a simulator game so it would be nice to have it visible in first person.

Please note I am still learning some parts to lua and by no means am I very experienced with roblox developing in general. If the above post has a valid solution, would someone be so kind as to provide a more simplified and understandable explanation of what that means.

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It’s hard coded in the core to make parts parented to you go invisible in first person unless tools.

You can however prevent that (sadly not by disabling the actual feature).

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i dont think thats true try changing LocalTransparenyModifier to 0 would work i guess

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if part.Name == "Katana" then
	part.LocalTransparencyModifier = part.Transparency
	part.Changed:Connect(function (property)
		part.LocalTransparencyModifier = part.Transparency
	end)
end

You mean something like this?

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yeah i guess this might work i never tried it before though

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Guess ill scrap it then. The game can work without having first person

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A simple fix to that. go to Starter Player and search for “CameraMinZoomDistance”, change the value to 0.7) and now you will see items and tools in first person.

This happens because roblox has a system to hide the player’s avatar after it enters first person, and any object that is a child of the player’s avatar will also be hidden.

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This solution no longer works sadly :frowning:
I workaround which i have just figured out is instead of having the model parented to the player, have it on workspace.
If you apply a weld or motor6d constraint to it and attach it to the characters hand, it will have the same effect yet you will be able to see it in first person!
The only workaround you will have to do is implementing the local script code another way.

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