Using collectionService for camera parts?

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#1

I am working on a game with a scriptable camera and was adding parts that act as regions that change the camera’s orientation, I recently heard about collectionService and thought, "Hey cool, now i don’t have to work with as many scripts but i realised that is not the case as i would still have to listen to the touched event and mess around with the tags more than i thought I’d have to, am i even using collectionService the right way? Or should i just stick with the touched event.

#2

I think you should use a table for this.

Here’s some quick pseudocode

local cameraFunctions = {
    [workspace.Part1] = function()
        print('This is where it would do the camera function :)')
    end;
    [workspace.Part2] = function()
        print('camera function 2')
    end;
}
for i,v in pairs(cameraFunctions) do
    i.Touched:Connect(v)
end

If you want to do function types instead, you could probably use CollectionService for that, assuming there’s a way of knowing what function each part should connect to.

local functionTypes = {
    ['func1'] = function() print('1') end;
    ['func2'] = function() print('2') end;
    -- etc
}

for i,v in pairs(collectionService:GetTagged('cameraparts') do
    v.Touched:Connect(functionTypes[v:GetAttribute('FunctionType')])
end
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#3

This would run the function for each part whenever one is touched?
I don’t understand
Ok i think i get it now, you just have to establish the connection once and it will run everytime after?

#4

Yeah, you can always disconnect it too if you only want the part to be able to touched once as :Connect() returns a RBXScriptConnection value that can be disconnected at any time.

local connections = {}

local functionTypes = {
    ['func1'] = function() print('1') end;
    -- etc
}
for i,v in pairs(collectionService:GetTagged('cameraparts') do
    connections[v] = v.Touched:Connect(functionTypes[v:GetAttribute('FunctionType')])
    connections[v]:Disconnect() -- you could probably assign the connection to a variable if you just want it inside of the scope of this loop and nowhere else, it's just for example purposes
end
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