How can I make a beach ball throwable by clicking?

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#1

So basically I have a beach ball tool that you can buy that’s all good but I want it to be throwable when you click. I don’t really want others to be able to pick it up but if I can’t do that then it’s fine because I can just make it go back into your inventory after it’s thrown but I don’t know how to actually make it like go and throw after you click. Can someone help me with this? The beach ball is a tool in ReplicatedStorage that gets parented to the player’s backpack when they purchase it.

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#2

Use the tool’s Activated event, then clone the ball itself into the workspace and add a BodyForce to it. Might wanna set its network owner to nil as well.

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#3 
local ball = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage").BaseBall:Clone()

local tool = script.Parent

local velocity = game.ReplicatedStorage.BodyVelocity:Clone()

local mouse = game.Players.LocalPlayer:GetMouse()

tool.Activated:Connect(function()

ball.Parent = workspace

ball.Position = script.Parent.Handle.Position

velocity.Velocity = mouse.Hit.Position

velocity.Parent = ball

end)
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#5

what would the network owner do?

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#7

That wont work, that’ll just fling the ball. You need to use a look vector and multiply it by an arbitrary number. Another reason being that you cant just set the ball’s velocity on the client.

ex:

-- Client -- 
local mouse = game.Players.LocalPlayer:GetMouse()
local remote = game.ReplicatedStorage.RemoteEvent

local tool = script.Parent

tool.Activated:Connect(function()
    remote:FireServer(mouse.Hit.p) 
end)

-- Server -- 
local remote = game.ReplicatedStorage.RemoteEvent

remote.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player, mouse)
    if not player.Character:FindFirstChild("ToolName") then return end

    local baseball = game.ReplicatedStorage.BaseBall:Clone()
    baseball.Parent = workspace
    baseball.Velocity = (player.Character.Head.Position - mouse).LookVector * 350
    
    game:GetService("Debris"):AddItem(baseball, 10)
end)
#8

I’ll try that later but that would only work if the player has the tool right because that’s how I want it to be since you have to buy the tool first

#9

this didn’t work I put the local part in a local script parented to the tool and the server part in a server script and it still won’t work