Addressing ClickDetector from a local script?

[BrainyBrian]

What I am trying to do is have a part highlighted with a border when a player hovers over it. I have managed to this with server scripts, however this won’t work as the border will appear for every other player in the server.

Is it possible to use ClickDetectors from a local script? As in, not have to define all of them individually and be able to detect when a player is interacting with one and defining it through that?

Thanks for any help

[skipper987 (skip)]

You can’t access a ClickDetector from a LocalScript. Instead, I suggest using a RemoteEvent.

You could iterate through all the parts in a location in a server script, check for a ClickDetector, and then assign a function to the ClickDetector’s MouseClick event:

local RS: ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local click_event: RemoteEvent = RS:WaitForChild("ClickEvent")

local obj: Folder = game.Workspace.ClickableParts

for k, v in pairs(obj:GetChildren()) do
    local cd: ClickDetector = v:FindFirstChildOfClass("ClickDetector")

    -- IF NO CLICKDETECTOR, SKIP THE CURRENTLY ITERATED OBJECT
    if not cd then continue end

    -- ON CLICK FIRE REMOTE EVENT TO PLAYER WHO CLICKED
    cd.MouseClick:Connect(function(plyr: Player)
        click_event:FireClient(plyr)
    end)
end

… then, in a LocalScript, hook up the event to do something:

local RS: ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local click_event: RemoteEvent = RS:WaitForChild("ClickEvent")

function _connect()
    --some code
end

click_event.OnClientEvent:Connect(_connect)

Let me know if that helps.

[BonesIsUseless (Bones)]

yes you can use ClickDetectors on a localscript
this would help with checking if You are the one who clicked but in your case, you should do what @skipper987 suggested