How would I make it so that players are only half invisible to a players in a certain team/in a certain group? - scripting

Question

I was following the example in this question How would I make a player invisible only to certain players?, but I can't adapt it to my needs.
How would I make it so that players are only half invisible to a players in a certain team/in a certain group? And how do I make it so that fellow invisible players see invisible players?

Answer 1

Building on the code from the previous code sample, to make this work you only have to modify the last step where the server tells all of the clients to show or hide the players.
Since you are trying to satisfy two conditions :
Teammates can be seen, even when invisible, and
Invisible players can be seen when the you are also invisible
You need to add some conditions to keep track of what team people are on and who is actively invisible. When one of your teammates turns invisible, we only partially hide them. And when we, the local player, turn invisible we need to iterate over all of the hidden players and reveal them.
That code might look like this :
-- make a helper function to reveal / hide a player
local function setVisiblity(player, isHidden, showPartial)
local invisible = 1.0
local visible = 0.0
-- if showing partially, make invisibility slightly more visible
if (showPartial == true) then
invisible = 0.7
end
-- loop over all of the parts in a player's Character Model and hide them
for _, part in ipairs(player.Character:GetDescendants()) do
local shouldTogglePart = true
-- handle exceptions
if not (part:IsA("BasePart") or part:IsA("Decal")) then
shouldTogglePart = false
elseif part.Name == "HumanoidRootPart" then
shouldTogglePart = false
end
-- hide or show all the parts and decals
if shouldTogglePart then
part.Transparency = isHidden and invisible or visible
end
end
end
-- make a table to hold onto the hidden players
local invisiblePlayers = {} -- <playerName, playerObject>
TogglePlayerVisible.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(player, isHidden)
-- flip the visibility of the player that requested the change
local showPartial = false
-- keep track of who is visible / invisible
if (isHidden) then
invisiblePlayers[player.Name] = player
else
invisiblePlayers[player.Name] = nil
end
-- reveal the invisible players if it is you
if (player.Name == localPlayer.Name)
showPartial = true
-- if we are now invisible, reveal all the other invisible players, otherwise hide them
local canSeeOtherInvisibleUnits = false
if (isHidden) then
canSeeOtherInvisibleUnits = true
end
-- loop over the invisible players and reveal or hide them
for name, invisPlayer in pairs(invisiblePlayers) do
setVisible(player, canSeeOtherInvisibleUnits, true)
end
-- reveal the other player if we're on the same team
elseif (player.TeamColor == localPlayer.TeamColor)
showPartial = true
-- reveal the other player if we are currently invisible
elseif (invisiblePlayers[localPlayer.Name] ~= nil)
showPartial = true
end
-- toggle that player's invisibility
setVisiblity(player, isHidden, showPartial)
end)