Track-system that smoothly follows a laid out track?

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#1

Hello,

I’ve been trying to making a system that follows a route I marked out by parts; however, after trying 4 months some stuff, I never came to a success.

This is what I wanted:
Lay out a track in parts, each parts named ‘Track#’ and # would be the corresponding number, so 1, 2, etc.

Is there anyone who has or knows an open-source system that uses this or something familiar?

Thanks!

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#2

I don’t know exactly how you personally go about moving one part to another, so Ill simply show you how to take any arbitrary number of parts named “Track#” and sort it into a table by the number.

local TrackPoints = workspace.TrackPoints:GetChildren() -- Get all Current Track Points

local function SortByName(a,b)
    return tonumber(string.match(a.Name , "%d+")) > tonumber(string.match(b.Name , "%d+"))
end

table.sort(TrackPoints, SortByName)

You can now iterate through TrackPoints (using ipairs or something similar) and guarantee your track points are sorted by the numbers at the end of their names.

#3

You could always use another object that has a part0, part1, so that you always know where the next target is. I use beams, since they are visually represented on screen.