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I am trying to make a module that I can use to make drawers functional, since I realized I will be needing this alot. I am also trying to make any contents inside the drawer move along with the drawer, so that I don’t have to attach it with a seperate script and create a mess.
- What is the issue? Include screenshots / videos if possible!
When I click on the drawer to make it open by changing the position, the drawer doesn’t move, even though the prints claim that it is working. No errors either.
local DrawerUsage = {}
--In order for this to work, you need to insert a click detector inside the drawer and define it in the parameters.
--Make sure to also define which drawer needs the script.
--The drawer HAS to be an union. The contents inside do not.
function DrawerUsage.OpenDrawer(X,Y,Z,Drawer,ClickDetector) -- X,Y,Z is how much the drawer should move
print("function actually called") --Drawers need to move 3.4 studs in order to fully open
local opened = false
print("Activated Module Function")
local ContentsInsideDrawer = Drawer:GetChildren()
ClickDetector.MouseClick:Connect(function()
print("Clicked")
local AClickDetector --This is here because I was planning to make the module check for the ClickDetector. When I did, the results were the same as this situation.
if opened == false then
Drawer.CFrame = Drawer.CFrame + Vector3.new(X,Y,Z) -- Opening the drawer with paremeters X,Y,Z
print("Drawer Moved")
if #ContentsInsideDrawer > 1 then --If things are inside the drawer, move all the contents with the drawer. I use more than 1 instead of 0 because a ClickDetector is in there
for i,v in pairs(ContentsInsideDrawer) do --Formula needs to be setting the contents position to the same as the drawer except you need to subtract the content's position with the drawer's position
local ContentOffset = v.Vector3 - Drawer.CFrame
v.Vector3 = Drawer.CFrame + ContentOffset
end
end
opened = true
end
if opened == true then
Drawer.CFrame = Drawer.CFrame - Vector3.new(X,Y,Z) -- Closing the drawer with parameters X,Y,Z
if #ContentsInsideDrawer > 1 then
for i,v in pairs(ContentsInsideDrawer) do
local ContentOffset = v.Vector3 - Drawer.CFrame -- The contents will follow alongside the drawer.
v.Vector3 = Drawer.CFrame + ContentOffset
end
end
opened = false
end
end)
end
return DrawerUsage
Output:
function actually called
Activated Module Function
Clicked
Drawer Moved
- What solutions have you tried so far? Did you look for solutions on the Developer Hub?
On one of my attempts of fixing this module, I tried to set if #ContentsInsideDrawer > 0 then to see what would happen, and the drawer ended up actual opening, but when I clicked the drawer again to close it, the drawer just kept repeating the “Open Drawer” sequence, because an error popped up telling me that ClickDetector doesn’t have a CFrame/Vector3, so therefore, it could not continue running the module.
Please let me know if there is a better way to implement this module (e.g. less parameters). Thanks!
(cough I wish) I fixed some bits of my code after adding in the returns, and now everything is functioning. (I said I would make another topic but I managed to fix it)