What I am trying to do is have a SelectionBox appear around a part upon the player's mouse hovering over the part, but only CERTAIN parts in the game can be selected. The way I would think about doing this is somehow adding a boolean to the part and then having the LocalScript in the StarterGui folder detect for this boolean, but I am completely new to Lua and ROBLOX coding and there is probably a totally different way to go about with this?
LocalScript in StarterGui:
local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local mouse = player:GetMouse() --Getting the player's mouse
local selection = Instance.new("SelectionBox", player.PlayerGui)
selection.Color = BrickColor.new("Light blue")
mouse.Move:connect(function() --When the mouse moves
local target = mouse.Target
if not target then
-- nothing selected
selection.Adornee = nil
else
local canSelect = target.SelectScript.canSelect
if canSelect then
-- when in model mode, try and select the parents first
if target.Parent:IsA("Model") then
selection.Adornee = target.Parent
else
selection.Adornee = target
end
else
selection.Adornee = nil
end
end
end)
SelectScript in the model that can be selected:
canSelect = true
Thank you.
Working code: (!)
local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local mouse = player:GetMouse()
local found = false
local canSelect
local colour = BrickColor.new("Light blue")
local selection = Instance.new("SelectionBox", player.PlayerGui)
selection.Color = colour
mouse.Move:connect(function()
local target = mouse.Target
if not target then
selection.Adornee = nil --if nothing is selected
found = false
else
if target.Parent:IsA("Model") and not target.Parent:IsA("Workspace") then --every parts parent is workspace, which is also a model, so thsi accounts for that
canSelect = target.Parent:FindFirstChild("CanSelect") --looks for CanSelect in the target Parent if target is part of a model
if canSelect then
if not found then --if we CanSelect and we are not selecting something already
selection.Adornee = target.Parent
--Instance.new("ClickDetector", target.Parent)
print ("Model can be selected!")
found = true
end
else
selection.Adornee = nil --if we could not find CanSelect
found = false
end
else --if target is not part of a model
canSelect = target:FindFirstChild("CanSelect") --looks for CanSelect in the target
if canSelect then --follow the same procedure as in a model, but without referencing target Parent
if not found then
selection.Adornee = target
print ("BasePart can be selected!")
found = true
end
else
selection.Adornee = nil
found = false;
end
end
end
end)
8 comments
Alternatively, you might want to set the "Locked" property of the part to false and check for the value of that property.
Thank you very much for your reply! I have since learned about other objects like IntValue and ObjectValue that should make coding in the future so much easier. I also appreciate you taking the time to improve the GUI script, but I have run into some problems. This code does not work with models as the "target" variable targets individual parts, and "canSelect" has to been set to find the child of
the target, when in a model the CanSelect BoolValue will only be found in the Parent of the target. So this works fine with BaseParts, but for some reason when the mouse goes over a BasePart with CanSelect, a SelectionBox appears around the entire map and not just that target?
Hm, so have you got it covered or should I help you out?
See my answer below for the current code, I still can't figure out why parts that do not belong to a model can not be highlighted, I'd really appreciate any help
Edited. Line 16 of the last code block.
Sorry, still doesn't work. I'll leave an accept on your answer as a thank you for the help you've already given, don't worry yourself over fixing this small thing
I found the fix! I think RBX.Lua treats the Workspace as a Model type object. Therefore EVERY part in the game has a parent that is a model, and my code would never reach the "else" statement that goes onto check individual parts. See code above