I’ve been working on a weapon system for fun, and want to make the player’s arms move up and down with the mouse. I am finding the mouse’s location through UserInputService as the mouse object is not entirely reliable. The tool is perfectly functional upon equipping it, but when I reequip it the output is bombarded with this:
The function below is used to find the mouse’s position and raycast to find its world position.
playerInputService = game:GetService("UserInputService")
local function GetMouseTarget(ignore)
local mouseposition = playerInputService:GetMouseLocation() - GuiService:GetGuiInset()
local unscaled_ray = workspace.CurrentCamera:ViewportPointToRay(mouseposition.X,mouseposition.Y)
local result = workspace:Raycast(unscaled_ray.Origin, unscaled_ray.Direction*500)
if result then
return result.Position
else
return unscaled_ray.Origin + unscaled_ray.Direction*180
end
end
I am at a complete loss as to what is causing the error because playerInputService is not a nil value. Any help would be very much appreciated :,)
local playerInputService = game:GetService("UserInputService")
local function GetMouseTarget(ignore)
playerInputService = game:GetService("UserInputService")
mouseposition = playerInputService:GetMouseLocation() - GuiService:GetGuiInset()
local unscaled_ray = workspace.CurrentCamera:ViewportPointToRay(mouseposition.X,mouseposition.Y)
local result = workspace:Raycast(unscaled_ray.Origin, unscaled_ray.Direction*500)
if result then
return result.Position
else
return unscaled_ray.Origin + unscaled_ray.Direction*180
end
end
Hey, for anyone looking back on this, I figured it out!
I made an if/then statement that checks for playerInputService before using the ‘GetMouseLocation’ function. I don’t really know why this worked, but it did and that’s good enough for me
