How to detect mouse and user input from a server script?

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#1

Hello, I am trying to make a plugin like F3X but I don’t know how to detect the developer’s / User’s Input.B
“Building Tools by F3X” has a way of detecting when the player/dev clicks a Part, or press a key on the keyboard. Can you please help with this because it is really confusing. Here is the code for more detail:

local IsOn

PluginButton.Click:Connect(function()
	
	IsOn = not IsOn
	
	PluginButton:SetActive(IsOn)
	
	GUI.Enabled = IsOn
	
end)

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

while wait() do
	
	script.Select.Adornee = Mouse.Target
	
	Mouse.Button1Down:Connect(function()
		
		if Mouse.Target then
			
			script.Select.SelectedBox.Adornee = Mouse.Target
			
		end
		
	end)
	
end

(Select is the hover selection box and Selected Box is the selected part’s selection box…)

Output:

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#2

You can’t access LocalPlayer from a plugin because the player doesn’t exist.

plugin:GetMouse() is what you should be using for this.

#3

It still isn’t working tho…

it keeps saying this inside the output:

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local GUI = script.Parent.CreatePartGUI
local ScrollFrame = GUI.Frame.ScrollingFrame
GUI.Parent = game.CoreGui

local IsOn

PluginButton.Click:Connect(function()
	
	IsOn = not IsOn
	
	PluginButton:SetActive(IsOn)
	
	GUI.Enabled = IsOn
	
	local Mouse = plugin:GetMouse()
	
	Mouse.Move:Connect(function()
		
		script.Select.Adornee = Mouse.Target
		
		Mouse.Button1Down:Connect(function()
			
			if Mouse.Target then
				
				script.Select.SelectedBox.Adornee = Mouse.Target
				
			end
			
		end)
		
	end)
	
end)
#4

You forgot to close one a parenthesis somewhere in your script.

#5

Can you please point out where by quoting it or something because it says line 25 but I checked and it is fine…

#6

Send line 25, since I can’t see 25 lines on the quote. You might be missing something.

#7 
local GUI = script.Parent.CreatePartGUI
local ScrollFrame = GUI.Frame.ScrollingFrame
GUI.Parent = game.CoreGui

local IsOn

PluginButton.Click:Connect(function()
	
	IsOn = not IsOn
	
	PluginButton:SetActive(IsOn)
	
	GUI.Enabled = IsOn
	
	local Mouse = plugin:GetMouse()
	
	Mouse.Move:Connect(function()
		
		script.Select.Adornee = Mouse.Target
		
		Mouse.Button1Down:Connect(function()
			
--[[ LINE 25]]if Mouse.Target then
				
				  script.Select.SelectedBox.Adornee = Mouse.Target
				
			  end
			
		end)
		
	end)
	
end)
#8

I can’t see anything wrong with that script, I might be missing something simple though. Are you sure that’s the script that is erroring?

#9

Well @LoadsOfMoney123 I don’t know either, but if you need it then here is the explorer:
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I put the plugin inside starterGUI I hope that isn’t a problem.

Also it is a local plugin and I right click the folder not the script

#10

Try this and send the output:

local GUI = script.Parent.CreatePartGUI
local ScrollFrame = GUI.Frame.ScrollingFrame
GUI.Parent = game.CoreGui

local IsOn

PluginButton.Click:Connect(function()
	print("Button clicked")
	IsOn = not IsOn
	
	PluginButton:SetActive(IsOn)
	
	GUI.Enabled = IsOn
	
	local Mouse = plugin:GetMouse()
	
	Mouse.Move:Connect(function()
		print("Mouse Moved")
		script.Select.Adornee = Mouse.Target
		
		Mouse.Button1Down:Connect(function()
			print("Mouse clicked")
--[[ LINE 25]]if Mouse.Target then
				  print("Mouse Target")
				  script.Select.SelectedBox.Adornee = Mouse.Target
				
			  end
			
		end)
		
	end)
	
end)
#11

Okay, I edited it and this should show which stage it gets up to.

#12

Nothing happens when I move the mouse…

It only says button clicked and the gui is ok

#13

Could you please send line 37? Edit: Line 25 to line 37.

#14

here:

local PluginButton = plugin:CreateToolbar("Creepersaur's Plugins"):CreateButton("CreatePart by creepersaur!", "Create a new part!", "rbxassetid://5710391838")

local GUI = script.Parent.CreatePartGUI
local ScrollFrame = GUI.Frame.ScrollingFrame
GUI.Parent = game.CoreGui

local IsOn

PluginButton.Click:Connect(function()
	print("Button clicked")
	IsOn = not IsOn
	
	PluginButton:SetActive(IsOn)
	
	GUI.Enabled = IsOn
	
	local Mouse = plugin:GetMouse()
	
	Mouse.Move:Connect(function()
		print("Mouse Moved")
		script.Select.Adornee = Mouse.Target
		
		Mouse.Button1Down:Connect(function()
			print("Mouse clicked")
			--[[ LINE 25]]if Mouse.Target then
				print("Mouse Target")
				script.Select.SelectedBox.Adornee = Mouse.Target
				
			end
			
		end)
		
	end)
	
end)

--[[LINE 37]]GUI.Frame.CreatePart.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
	
	local Camera = game.Workspace.Camera
	
	local Part = Instance.new("Part")
	
	local Xpos = ScrollFrame.Xpos.Text
	local Ypos = ScrollFrame.Ypos.Text
	local Zpos = ScrollFrame.Zpos.Text
	
	Part.Position = Vector3.new(Xpos,Ypos,Zpos)
	
	local R = ScrollFrame.Red.Text
	local G = ScrollFrame.Green.Text
	local B = ScrollFrame.Blue.Text
	
	Part.Color = Color3.fromRGB(R,G,B)
	
	Part.Parent = workspace
	
	wait()
	
	local LookDirection = CFrame.new(Camera.CFrame.Position, Part.Position)
	local NewCFrame = CFrame.new(Camera.CFrame.Position) * LookDirection
	Camera.CFrame = Camera.CFrame:lerp(NewCFrame, 1)
	
	Camera.CFrame.Position = Camera.CFrame.Position + Vector3.new(0,23,0)
	
end)

GUI.Frame.CreateMesh.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
	
	local Camera = game.Workspace.Camera
	
	local Part = Instance.new("MeshPart")
	
	local Xpos = ScrollFrame.Xpos.Text
	local Ypos = ScrollFrame.Ypos.Text
	local Zpos = ScrollFrame.Zpos.Text
	
	Part.Position = Vector3.new(Xpos,Ypos,Zpos)
	
	local R = ScrollFrame.Red.Text
	local G = ScrollFrame.Green.Text
	local B = ScrollFrame.Blue.Text
	
	Part.Color = Color3.fromRGB(R,G,B)
	
	Part.Parent = workspace
	
	wait()
	
	local LookDirection = CFrame.new(Camera.CFrame.Position, Part.Position)
	local NewCFrame = CFrame.new(Camera.CFrame.Position) * LookDirection
	Camera.CFrame = Camera.CFrame:lerp(NewCFrame, 1)
	
	Camera.CFrame.Position = Camera.CFrame.Position + Vector3.new(0,23,0)
	
end)
#15

Try adding another parenthesis onto line 35. If that doesn’t work I’m not sure why it’s not, sorry.

#16

For some reason It doesn’t work, I deleted all of the mouse stuff, and I added just a script for when you click the plugin button it should just set the adornee of select to the baseplate. When I clicked, NOTHING HAPPENS (it doesn’t set the adornee, the GUI stuff is fine…)

#17

Try printing and see if its actually setting the adornee or the button itself is not working.

Edit: Also, message the reply back since this post is getting very large.

#18

Don’t worry I got it working! (selection boxes do not appear to be working for some reason with a plugin so I used a script to place a block with the EXACT CFrame and size and that seems to be working fine.)
The only problem is when I use a black block to show that you clicked on something using MouseButton1Down it doesn’t work…

#19

That’s good that you got it working, hope you figure out how to get the black block to work.

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