Problem with passing an object to another player

[UnImaginative_Games (Max)]

Thanks for going out of the way to read this post.

So I’m making a game about hot potato, and whoever is tagged will have a potato on top of them. The problem is that I have no idea how to put the potato on top of the player who is tagged. Currently, my system is that inside every player who joins is a boolean that determines if whether their tagged is true or false. Assuming that the “potato” being passed around is a Part. how will I go about making such a script?

Feel free to ask me for more details if necessary. Also, I’m not a professional programmer so forgive me if I am confused about many things.

[davidrhee1234]

You can use align position & align orientation

AlignPosition | Documentation - Roblox Creator Hub

Or you can use Motor 6D/ Weld but I faced some killing issues

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So I would recommend using align position & align orientation to the potato.

[UnImaginative_Games (Max)]

@davidrhee1234

You can use align position & align orientation

How would I go about using align position and align orientation? I did some searching up, and still have no idea how to use it.

[davidrhee1234]

Those are constraints that applies force to move two attachments together. So, you can create an Align Position & two attachments:

local attach0 = Instance.new("Attachment")
local attach1 = Instance.new("Attachment")
attach0.Parent = character.HumanoidRootPart -- player's bodyPart
attach1,Parent = hotPotato -- a part of hot potato
local alignPos = Instance.new("AlignPosition")
alignPos.Parent = hotPotato
alignPos.Attachment0 = attach0
alignPos.Attachment1 = attach1
alignPos.RigidityEnabled = true

This will move the potato to the character.
You can change the CFrame of the attachments & play holding animation to make it look more realistic.

You can use AlignOrentation as well, and it works similar to AlignPosition.

AlignOrientation | Documentation - Roblox Creator Hub

Use AlignPosition to Make Things Follow You

• Always remember to enable the Rigidity to make the object move as fast as it can to its destination.

[UnImaginative_Games (Max)]

The align position works! However, is it normally slow at catching up to the player? I noticed that the “potato” takes a while to keep up with the player as it moves, and the “potato” keeps swirling in circles. Does align orientation solve this? I tried experimenting with it as you said it is similar to align position, but I can’t quite figure out how to work with it.

Edit: I searched up and found out that welds can hold 2 parts together. If the “potato” cannot be sped up to keep up with the player’s movement, should I be using welds instead? (I don’t know how welds work though =\ )