I don’t want to use a mousedetector, and I don’t think that a constant loop & or mouse move function would be the best. I’m wondering what the best way to detect if a user is hovering over an object and if they are a gui will pop up. This object must be certain one (btw)
By object, I believe you mean a BasePart?
Oh sorry. Yes, I was mainly thinking of an object like a gun or something but in reality it is a basepart.
If so, your best bet would be binding a function to Mouse.Move(). It shouldn’t impact performance in any major fashion.
Following on from what @Kiansjet said, you could do the following:
local Player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local Mouse = Player:GetMouse()
-- Model containing baseparts we can mouse over
local HoverModel = workspace.HoverableObjects
Mouse.Move:Connect(function()
local Object = Mouse.Target
if Object:IsDescendantOf(HoverModel) then
-- Do stuff, e.g. show a tooltip GUI
end
end)
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Don’t use PlayerMouse. Use a UserInputService alternative. PlayerMouse is probably going to become deprecated.
I’ve never worked with binding functions to mouse movements, but there should be an event to help you here:
Hopefully someone has an explanation of how soon.
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Don’t use something that works to solve this exact problem because it might become deprecated? That’s a bit daft.
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Seems like pretty solid reasoning to me, seeing as a member of the Roblox staff recommends not using it.
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Using RunService or something
With the above method OR InputObject.Position (only the X and Y properties)
Don’t forget to check if the input type is UserInputType MouseMovement
The latter you could consider better but it doesn’t update when objects move
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My open source StudioMouse module replicates PlayerMouse behavior using UserInputService. This would be ideal code to study for that purpose if you or OP are interested!
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Oh, didn’t know about that!