Hello, I’m making a sort of map with player tracking and all but I’m coming across this issue; when a player clicks on the gui, the gui is supposed to follow the mouse and allow for panning of the map itself. This part is working however it is offset for whatever reason! Here’s a couple pictures for reference, the anchor point is not the issue and I’d rather not use an offset but rather the position of the image label itself.
Here’s the explorer;
The problem part of the script;
local function movemap()
while true do
wait(.01)
if held == true then
script.Parent.Position = UDim2.new(0,mouse.X,0,mouse.Y)
print("updated")
end
end
end
And finally the full script;
script.Parent.MouseWheelForward:Connect(function()
script.Parent.Size = script.Parent.Size + UDim2.new(0,50,0,50)
end)
script.Parent.MouseWheelBackward:Connect(function()
script.Parent.Size = script.Parent.Size - UDim2.new(0,50,0,50)
end)
local held = false
local mouse = game.Players.LocalPlayer:GetMouse()
local function movemap()
while true do
wait(.01)
if held == true then
script.Parent.Position = UDim2.new(0,mouse.X,0,mouse.Y)
print("updated")
end
end
end
script.Parent.InputBegan:Connect(function(input)
if input.UserInputType == Enum.UserInputType.MouseButton1 then
held = true
movemap()
end
end)
script.Parent.InputEnded:Connect(function(input)
if input.UserInputType == Enum.UserInputType.MouseButton1 then
held = false
end
end)
Yep, the reason it’s not working is because it’s set to offset in the size.
If you expand the size property it will show you
Change it to {0,0}, {0,0} and then you can resize it on screen to whatever size you want so it’s scaled on all devices and uses Scale rather than Offset
Then you need to also get the offset from the objects absolute position. Basically, before you start moving, see where the mouse is and then subtract the guis absolute position from it, then just add it to the final position while setting.
Something like:
local offset = mousePosition - script.Parent.AbsolutePosition
-- loop Please use RunService loops!!
local position = mousePosition-script.Parent.Parent.AbsolutePosition + offset
script.Parent.Position = UDim2.fromOffset(position.X,position.Y)
I recommend UserInputService for getting the mouse position.
When the mouse is clicked, store the mouse’s current position.
local lastMousePosition = UserInputService:GetMouseLocation()
Let’s also store the current position of the map as a Vector2
local mapPosition = script.Parent.Position
local mapPositionAsVector2 = Vector2.new(mapPosition .X.Offset, mapPosition .Y.Offset)
Then, while the mouse is down, listen to the mouse movement:
-- not using while loops.
UserInputService.InputEnded:Connect(function(inputObject, gameProcessed)
if (gameProcessed or not held) then return end -- if the input is processed by the Roblox UI, or if the button is not held.
if (inputObject.UserInputType ~= Enum.UserInputType.MouseMovement) then
return -- we only want UserInputType.MouseButton1. anything else is discarded.
end
-- either GetMouseLocation or inputObject.Position
local mapOffsetDelta = UserInputService:GetMouseLocation() - lastMousePosition
local newMapPosition = mapPositionAsVector2 + mapOffsetDelta
script.Parent.Position = UDim2.new(0, newMapPosition.X, 0,newMapPosition.Y)
end)
I’ve tried this before, unfortunately it’s for a GUI and it registers something different instead of a normal click or something, I’m not entirely sure how it all works but it didn’t work nor did your code with the obvious edits.
Basically a copy and paste, exactly how you put it. I’ve re-implemented it from deleting it because it didn’t do anything and doesn’t even print past the first check that sees if it’s interacted with anything.
UserInputService.InputEnded:Connect(function(inputObject, gameProcessed)
print("yep")
if (gameProcessed or not held) then return end -- if the input is processed by the Roblox UI, or if the button is not held.
print("yep2")
if (inputObject.UserInputType ~= Enum.UserInputType.MouseButton1) then
return -- we only want UserInputType.MouseButton1. anything else is discarded.
end
print("yep3")
-- either GetMouseLocation or inputObject.Position
local mapOffsetDelta = UserInputService:GetMouseLocation() - mapPositionAsVector2
local newMapPosition = mapPositionAsVector2 + mapOffsetDelta
script.Parent.Position = UDim2.new(0, newMapPosition.X, 0,newMapPosition.Y)
end)
The code is meant to be connected to InputChanged.
Also, I think I understand why you might be confused with UIS. The InputBegan, InputChanged, and InputEnded events return an InputObject. You can separate different logic with different inputs by comparing InputObject.UserInputType to an Enum.UserInputType.
For left-click logic, use Enum.UserInputType.MouseButton1 with InputBegan or InputEnded. For scroll-wheel logic, use Enum.UserInputType.MouseWheel with InputChanged.
