Takeoff and Landing with Tweens

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#1

Hello!

I am currently working on a larger project, but part of it is a small system to have planes take off and land on a runway automatically. I’m not going to get into the details of the project, but I basically need AI planes that can do things themselves.

I have a small demo of a Cessna 172 Taking Off and Landing. This whole system is entirely built with Tweens. I personally believe it looks pretty good, let me know what you think!

Videos:

Takeoff:
TakeoffDemo - YouTube

Landing:
LandingDemo - YouTube

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#2

How much adaptable your system is? As of, do you have a coded runway template that has all the features coded in so that it automatically picks up planes for landing - so that it is ready to go without any or much user intervention after copying it?

#3

There currently isn’t a “system”, I’m planning on using OOP to handle the planes and their actions. I want to get it to the point where you can run a function such as:

:land("06")

From there the script could find the runway and land the plane on it.

Currently though, I just have a simple script with a table of the points, which it iterates through to land:

local TPoints = workspace.TweenPoints
local C172 = workspace["Cessna 172"]:Clone()
local TS = game:GetService("TweenService")
C172.Parent = workspace
C172.Name = "Plane2"

--Table of tweenparts
local PointTable = {
	{TPoints.Landing.MapEnterPoint, Enum.EasingStyle.Linear, Enum.EasingDirection.InOut, 100},
	{TPoints.Landing.TouchDownPoint, Enum.EasingStyle.Linear, Enum.EasingDirection.InOut, 100},
	{TPoints.Landing.FrontWheelDownPoint, Enum.EasingStyle.Linear, Enum.EasingDirection.InOut, 100},
	{TPoints.Landing.SlowPoint, Enum.EasingStyle.Sine, Enum.EasingDirection.Out, 60, true},
	{TPoints.Landing.TurnPoint, Enum.EasingStyle.Linear, Enum.EasingDirection.Out, 60},
	{TPoints.Landing.StopPoint, Enum.EasingStyle.Sine, Enum.EasingDirection.Out, 10}
}
--Set the plane to the first point:
C172:SetPrimaryPartCFrame(PointTable[1][1].CFrame)

wait(10)

for i,v in pairs(PointTable) do
	local Dist = (C172.PrimaryPart.Position - v[1].Position).magnitude
	local angleChange = (C172.PrimaryPart.Orientation - v[1].Orientation).magnitude
	local Time = ((angleChange + Dist) / v[4])
	print(Time)
	
	local Ti = TweenInfo.new(Time, v[2], v[3], 0, false, 0)
	local T = TS:Create(C172.GroundPart, Ti,{CFrame = v[1].CFrame})
	T:Play()
	if v[5] then
		--Tween is going to be cancelled early
		wait(Time - 2)
		T:Cancel()
	else
		--Tween is going to play all the way through
		wait(Time)
	end
end
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