How do check the name of what is dragged by a HopperBin?
I do not understand how to script with HopperBins because all day I have been trying to make a draggable part. I am making a game where you can place a part down onto your own baseplate, but the issue is that the HopperBin can grab EVERYTHING in the game. I need to know how to make it check if the name of the part the HopperBin is grabbing is called 'Name.."Part"' (i.e. PlayerPart)
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There are several ways of going by this but the most simplistic way to me is to make a constraint that checks the objects name.
Example
id = "Part"
if mouse.Target.Name == id.."Part" then
--Code in here.
end
Line 2 requires that the mouse.Target which is the object the mouse currently is pointed at has the name of the id with the end as "Part".
By default HopperBins don't do this by default, so I assume you either have the BinType set to GameTool or Grab. Those are unscriptable, and the only way to prevent the hopperbin from dragging parts is to lock them. If you want to make it special where it only drags parts with certain names, you'll have to script your own. HopperBins are on the road to being deprecated (unsupported), so you should use tools instead as well. Tools no longer require a handle to work, so they should work exactly like HopperBins if you need them to. When you script your own dragger, the easiest way would be to use the Dragger object. Here's a tutorial on that if it helps:
http://wiki.roblox.com/index.php/User:Memory_Address/Using_Dragger