Climb any part by throwing a rope

[trim tulip]

The general idea is to be able to climb up a part by throwing a rope at it which anchors when it touches the part.
First thing I did was create a Part when user activated a tool. Then with the use Body Velocity to apply velocity and make it launch in the direction the player is looking. If the part touches something it get's anchored to that point but if it doesn't touch anything in the given time period, it get's removed. By creating another part but with no collision this time, and putting it between the flying part and the player i mimicked a rope like behavior.

Now, I needed to somehow find a way to make it so that if the player successfully throws the launching part and it gets anchored, they need to be able to climb that part. My first idea was to simply make all parts truss and only allow climbing if it's touched with the "launching part". however i soon realized, "What if 2 parts are stacked on top of each other and the Launching parts get's anchored to the top one?"

Then i thought about sliding a line whose total height is equal to launchingPart.Position.Y and playerRoot.Position.Y. These invisible truss parts would go sliding in the direction the launching part went if it get's anchored and also get anchored itself when it touch another part. However this also failed because i could figure out how to make it local sided only.

Now, I'm stuck in a loop hole of problems and desperately need help.

Also, i'm not a pro at studio. Infact, i started only 4 days ago but due to my past experience with game dev, I picked up quickly.

[jaunty granite]

Heck yeah

So @trim tulip can you give me a tldr cuz I’m reading it but I’m not getting a clear issue

[trim tulip]

it might still not be clear but i hope this made understanding a little easier

[jaunty granite]

have you tried tweening the player to the anchored part

makes perfect sense now

[trim tulip]

yes but it doesn't feel natural

[jaunty granite]

or are you still having trouble launching the part

[jaunty granite]

i see

[trim tulip]

it's not like a grappling hoook

it's like rock climbing

[jaunty granite]

so you got everything else working just stuck on the climbing part

[trim tulip]

yea

[jaunty granite]

@trim tulip so do you have the rope fall down to the ground

or does it just magically appear once you hit something

cuz that can throw a wrench in the mix depending on how yo uhave that setup

[trim tulip]

uhhh wdym i didn't fully understand.. the rope and the launched anchor are two different part and i use math to make the rope stretch, tilt and stay in between the player and the launched part

the rope also doesnt have collision

and cannot detect touch

it gets deleted along with the launch part if it doesn't get anchored within a time frame

[jaunty granite]

ahh i see

so then it falls in place

[trim tulip]

yea however by the time it falls, the touch detectors are shut

[jaunty granite]

i see

@trim tulip So why couldnt you use the truss parts

i see you say you couldnt do it locally

    local direction = (endPos - startPos).Unit
    local distance = (endPos - startPos).Magnitude
    local segments = math.floor(distance / 4)

    for i = 1, segments do
        local segmentPos = startPos + direction * (i * 4)

        local part = Instance.new("Part")
        part.Anchored = true
        part.CanCollide = false
        part.Size = Vector3.new(2, 4, 2)
        part.Position = segmentPos
        part.Transparency = 1
        part.Name = "ClimbPart"
        part.Parent = workspace
        part.LocalTransparencyModifier = 1  -- Make it local-sided only visually

        local truss = Instance.new("TrussPart")
        truss.Size = part.Size
        truss.Anchored = true
        truss.CanCollide = false
        truss.Position = part.Position
        truss.Transparency = 1
        truss.Name = "LocalClimbTruss"
        truss.Parent = workspace
    end
end

but something like this would possibly do the trick

thats chatgpt btw

[trim tulip]

but even if it's locally invisible it still exists for all players?

[jaunty granite]

Not unless you make that a function that fires from the server

like right there the client is doing all the work

so only the client could see it

is everything else done on the server?

[trim tulip]

yea but the rope is cloned for both server and client

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[trim tulip]

because at first when i made the rope server only, it was laggy and being delayed on player movement so i cloned it for the useful rope to exist in server and visual to exist in client

[jaunty granite]

gotcha

you could do the same thing for the trusses

[trim tulip]

i tried but my brain fried

[jaunty granite]

ha lol i dont blame you

[trim tulip]

i think this might work. lemme try to implement this

[jaunty granite]

kk

let me know if anything

[trim tulip]

uh

what if the multiple part exist at different X positions

when in this game it does

[jaunty granite]

Maybe something along the lines of

climbPart.Position = root.Position + direction * (i * climbSpacing)

wait i think it already has iit

to be honest impact im not rlly sure

i cant rlly help cuz i cannot jumble all these variables mentally id just keep trying scripts and seeing what sticks

[trim tulip]

uhhhhhhhhhh i keep on trying to do things im not capable of. perhaps i should learn more

[trim tulip]

but it still doesn't know when to stop

[jaunty granite]

this is learning

keep going

if you just did everything you knew how to do you would never learn

[jaunty granite]

id say make it stop whenever it passes past the players Y position

[trim tulip]

i searched everywhere on the internet but fsr no body has tried this. atleast i couldn't find any

[trim tulip]

player y position?

[jaunty granite]

yeah