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How to get player mouse position without localscript?

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I'm trying to get the user to place parts where ever the mouse is positioned. I'm using remote functions. I have a localscript in the tool the user uses. Then a script in serverscriptservice. Script in SSS

function placebrick()
	local part Instance.new("Part", game.Workspace)
end

game.ReplicatedStorage.Events.RemoteFunction.OnServerInvoke = placebrick

Localscript in tool

script.Parent.Activated:Connect(function()	
	game.ReplicatedStorage.Events.RemoteFunction:InvokeServer()
end)

Help please?

Anonymous

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You cannot access the mouse directly from the server. Instead, you need to send it the data from the client across your RemoteFunction:

local mouse = game.Players.LocalPlayer:GetMouse()
script.Parent.Activated:Connect(function()  
	game.ReplicatedStorage.Events.RemoteFunction:InvokeServer(mouse.Hit.p) -- mouse position
end)

In the server:

function placebrick(player, mousePosition)
	local part = Instance.new("Part", game.Workspace)
	part.Position = mousePosition
end

game.ReplicatedStorage.Events.RemoteFunction.OnServerInvoke = placebrick
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... what you do is invoke from the server to the client, not the other way around.

Anonymous#

You have to get the mouse position in the LocalScript and send it as a parameter of the RemoteFunction, then get it on the server and set the part position to it.

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Yes It worked thanks.

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