Placement preview for my furniture placement system not working. How to fix?

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2ndwann 131

5 years ago

Edited 5 years ago

I am making a basic furniture placement system for my game, and I am having trouble with hiding the selection box (for previewing) after the player has placed the structure.

After the player has placed the structure, it still shows the SelectionBox, but I intended to make it disappear when the player places the structure.

I am having the particular trouble in Line #35 of the Script for the server.

Script for the server:

01-- Script
02local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
03 
04local MousePositionEvent = Instance.new("RemoteEvent")
05MousePositionEvent.Name = "MousePositionEvent"
06MousePositionEvent.Parent = ReplicatedStorage
07 
08local MouseClickEvent = Instance.new("RemoteEvent")
09MouseClickEvent.Name = "MouseClickEvent"
10MouseClickEvent.Parent = ReplicatedStorage
11 
12 
13-- Preview the placement
14local function PreviewPlace(Owner, PositionBase, StructureBase)
15    StructureBase.UserOwner.Value = Owner.Name -- Assign Owner
16 
17    local Position = CFrame.new(PositionBase)
18    StructureBase:SetPrimaryPartCFrame(Position) -- Move the structure
19 
20    -- Make it look like it's being previewed
21    local Selection = StructureBase.SelectionBox
22    Selection.Color3 = Color3.new(0, 255, 0)
23    Selection.Transparency = 0
24end
25MousePositionEvent.OnServerEvent:Connect(PreviewPlace) -- Mouse position event listener
26 
27 
28-- Place the structure when the user clicks
29local function Place(Owner, PositionBase, StructureBase, DestinationFolder)
30    local NewStructure = StructureBase:Clone()
31 
32    NewStructure.Parent = DestinationFolder
33    NewStructure.UserOwner.Value = Owner.Name -- Assign Owner
34 
35    -- Hide the selection box after player has placed structure [I AM HAVING TROUBLE WITH THIS!]
36    local Selection = StructureBase.SelectionBox
37    Selection.Transparency = 1
38 
39    print(Owner.Name .. " has ended placing a " .. NewStructure.Name .. "!")
40end
41 
42MouseClickEvent.OnServerEvent:Connect(Place)
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Script for the client:

01-- LocalScript
02local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
03local MousePositionEvent = ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("MousePositionEvent")
04local MouseClickEvent = ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("MouseClickEvent")
05 
06local Players = game:GetService("Players")
07local Player = Players.LocalPlayer
08 
09local Mouse = Player:GetMouse()
10local MouseCFrame
11local MousePosition
12 
13local SelectedStructure = game.Workspace.OakWoodBeam -- The selected Strukchur
14local SelectedStructureAmount = 3
15local DestDir = game.Workspace -- Destination Folder for placed structures
16 
17local Placing = true -- Placing Status
18 
19Mouse.Button1Down:Connect(function() 
20    SelectedStructureAmount = SelectedStructureAmount - 1
21 
22    if (SelectedStructureAmount == 0) then
23        Placing = false
24    end
25 
26    MouseClickEvent:FireServer(MousePosition, SelectedStructure, DestDir) -- Trigger function place() in server
27 
28    print (Placing)
29    print (SelectedStructureAmount)
30end)   
31 
32-- Updates the mouse CFrame, and updates server about it
33function UpdatePosition()
34    MouseCFrame = Mouse.Hit
35    MousePosition = MouseCFrame.p
36 
37    if (SelectedStructureAmount >= 1 and Placing == true) then -- If structure amount is not yet 0
38        MousePositionEvent:FireServer(MousePosition, SelectedStructure)
39        return true
40    else
41 
42    if (Placing == false) then -- Place the Structure when the user clicks
43        return false
44        end
45    end
46end
47 
48-- Game loop [CLIENT]
49while true do
50    UpdatePosition()
51 
52    --print (Placing)
53    wait()
54end
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How would I fix it?

I am sorry, but if you are going to put alot of code like that then it would be good for you to put way more explaination then what are you trying to accomplish RBLXNogin 187 — 5y

When you clone "StructureBase" on line 30, the SelectionBox may have been cloned too. You'll have to delete or hide it in the cloned object. User#20279 0 — 5y

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