How do I rotate a steering wheel with my my mouse

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#1

I’m currently making a car which you operate in first person with interactive buttons and all that. The problem I am having is that I cannot figure out for the life of me how to turn using a steering wheel and your mouse.

I really need help with figuring out how to rotate a steering wheel with my mouse. Thank you for any ideas!

Please tell me if this is breaking any rules or has been posted somewhere else :slight_smile:

#2

If your wanting to detect if the player is moving their mouse left or right, and steer it, you can use this in a LocalScript inside of a gui or playerscripts:

local m = game.Players:GetMouse()
local position = {m.X, m.Y}
m.Move:connect(function()
      if m.X <= position[1] + 2 then
           //put the steering script here
     end
      if m.X >= position[1] - 2 then
            //put the steering script here
      end
end)

Tell me if this doesn’t work.

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#3

( Sorry for the late reply I was sleeping )

This does work but I have to be in first person to interact with buttons in the car, so the mouse X stays the same since the mouse is locked in the middle of the screen. ( See pic below )

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( Note that the “Left” and “Right” buttons are just a replacement to turn for now. )
Thank you so much anyways!

#4

You can make your GUI buttons modal, which will “unlock” the mouse so it can be moved while in first person.

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#5

I could but I want to click on the steering wheel in first person and be able to drag the steering wheel to rotate left or right.

Thank you so much for replying!

#6

So, you mean you want to be able to disable/enable steering by clicking on the steering wheel?

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#7

Hey! Here’s what I mean by dragging the wheel with your mouse:

( Note that I just made it spin when I click it to make the effect of actually dragging the wheel left/right )

Thank you so much for helping!

#8

Ah, I don’t have any experience with making draggable 3D objects, so I don’t really know how to do it. Sorry!

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#9

This can be done by attaching the steering wheel to the car with either a HingeConstraint, Hinge, or anything that can let it spin freely. Afterwards, proceed to do the dragging part, which a tutorial simillar to your situation can be found here.

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