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Mastering Roblox Coding

You're reading from   Mastering Roblox Coding The unofficial guide to leveling up your Roblox scripting skills and building games using Luau programming

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801814041
Length 424 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Start Programming with Roblox
2. Chapter 1: Getting Up to Speed with Roblox and Luau Basics FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Writing Better Code 4. Chapter 3: Event-Based Programming 5. Part 2: Programming Advanced Systems
6. Chapter 4: Securing Your Game 7. Chapter 5: Optimizing Your Game 8. Chapter 6: Creating User Interfaces for All Devices 9. Chapter 7: Listening to User Input 10. Chapter 8: Building Data Stores 11. Chapter 9: Monetizing Your Game 12. Part 3: Creating Your Own Simulator Game
13. Chapter 10: Creating Your Own Simulator Game 14. Index 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Working with tweens

Sometimes, we do not want to animate our own character or an NPC. Instead, we would rather animate something else, such as a gate. This could be the gates for a castle that open when you get close to it. It looks way better if these doors open by using some sort of animation rather than just being open instantly. Technically, we could use a hacky way of adding a Humanoid object into a model that contains the gate; then, we could play an animation on it. However, there is a better alternative. We can make Tweens.

In the following sections, we will create the previously described animated gate. We will start by making the gate ourselves and looking at Pivots. After that, we will start animating the gate.

Setting up the gate

Let us start by making the gate. In Figure 5.7, we can see a full gate with two doors. We will be making these doors ourselves:

Figure 5.7 – Gate

Follow these steps to make both doors:

  1. Create a new...
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