In many Roblox games there is a need to give the player a tool for placing objects such as buildings, units, furniture, or voxels. There are many tutorials for how to get the 3D position of the player’s mouse and directly place an object at this point. This is sometimes enough for a purely uniform grid-based building system similar to Minecraft. Usually however, there are several features the developer wants that are much more difficult to implement, such as:
Alignment of the placed part to match the surface the player is mousing over
Modification of the grid used for snapping so that the placed part is always flush with the target surface
Consistent rotation of the part on the same surface so the player does not need to set the rotation more than once per surface placed on.
Alignment with curved surfaces such as cylinders with equivalent angle-based snapping in the direction of curve.
I’m publishing this module, which is a core useful component of a much more powerful all-in-one building placement system I’m working on called ProtoFabriz. I wanted to get this out sooner because I see questions on Scripting Help almost daily asking for feature’s I’ve already finished. I hope this finds a lot of use in people’s games. I wouldn’t wish this kind of vector math problem on anyone!
Alr so I just tested out the Jack model and that wasn’t really what I was looking for, it is nice though. I was just looking at how you would set up the model so you could place down objects and stuff
I understand.
Building great things takes time. There’s not many (if any) modern and complete building systems available so this will be greatly appreciated once it’s ready. Once again thank you for your hard work.
This is great, but my part is sideways and don’t know how to fix it. I also don’t want the part to looks towards whatever the instance of the raycast result is.
