Welding an unanchored part to an anchored part

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I’ve got a tree here. I want to weld it to the anchored ground.
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Problem is, when I do so, roblox doesn’t like it and decides to disable the weld constraint.
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Since I do want this tree to be disconnected from the ground at some point, I don’t think anchoring the tree itself would be a feasible option but there are not many posts online about welding a non-anchored part to an anchored part. Does anyone have any idea as to how I do this? I put this as a scripting support post because there is a script that adds all these welds to the map when it is loaded, which might be part of the problem.

Baseplate is an anchored part. I have also tried parenting the welds to the tree and welding to the Baseplate.
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did you try play testing the game to see if the weld activates

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Yea. In studio and ingame the weld is not activated.

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why not just anchor the tree then unanchor when it will be disconnected from the ground?

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Are you sure it’s not welded? Those properties look right to me - maybe it’s the other parts in the tree that aren’t welded to the trunk of the tree?

If possible, provide a place file for us to look at and help you more. Thanks!

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Because I’d have to unanchor and anchor so many parts and it would be a massive hassle. This is my worst case option I’d resort to.

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WeldConstraints will disable if one of the targeted parts is anchored. To resolve this use the normal “Weld” instead of the constraint.

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I cannot put a file up, but I think I’ve made a discovery. In my process of trying to show you how to reproduce this, I tried setting up a little model tree with parts:
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Welded like the original tree

And it worked. Both welds worked fine. I converted these parts into a union since thats what my tree was made out of and I get the same result. I think I’m onto something. Let me convert the trees into meshparts and I’ll create an update

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Update:
I believe I fixed it. One of the issues was unions. The welds didn’t like unions.

Another problem was the loading script:

	local maps = game.ServerStorage.Maps:GetChildren()
	local map = maps[math.random(#maps)]
	local dest = map.Destructable:Clone()
	local ind = map.Indestructable:Clone()

the map heierarchy looks like this:

--Map 
-- Map/Destructable
-- Map/Indestructable

The welds with problems where welds that welded to parts from Destructible to Indestructible. Since I cloned them separately, the welds got confused as to what instance Part1 would point to, deactivating the weld.

Fixed code

	local maps = game.ServerStorage.Maps:GetChildren()
	local map = maps[math.random(#maps)]
    local mapClone = map:Clone()
	local dest = mapClone.Destructable
	local ind = mapClone.Indestructable

TL;DR: Don’t use welds and make sure you are careful with your clones.

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