How to get mouse.hit position without using the mouse object

[xtremsk8rs2]

I want to forgo the mouse object and mouse.hit or mouse.target as the doccumentation says that it is better to use userinputservice. BUT I can not for the life of me figure out how to get a mouse position without using the mouse object. Is there something I am missing? Like an obscure Enum.UserInputType or something?

[bytesleuth]

local mouse = game.UserInputService:GetMouseLocation()
local ray = workspace.Camera:ViewportPointToRay(mouse.X, mouse.Y)
local result = workspace:Raycast(ray.Origin, ray.Direction * 1000)
if result then
	local hit = CFrame.new(result.Position)
end

[PerilousPanther]

UserInputService Mouse

Tired of having to use the player mouse or the plugin mouse? Well here’s a solution! This module returns a custom mouse class that uses the UserInputService instead. Yay! No more having to worry if plugin:Activate(true) was called and still active etc. I also added/adjusted a few properties to this custom mouse. They are described here: --[[ mouse.TargetFilter [Instance] or [Array of Instances] > Determines an object (and its descendants) to be included when determining Mouse.Hit and Mouse.…

[xtremsk8rs2]

If I may ask, Why do they want us to not use mouse.hit?

[bytesleuth]

Because the Mouse object is deprecated or superseded by UserInputService.

[PerilousPanther]

It’s mostly about making your game have multi-platform support. UIS has much broader scope. Having said that, it’s not deprecated - but it might be in the future.

[xtremsk8rs2]

I just find that using the mouse object is cleaner and leads to easier to read code.

UIS.InputBegan:Connect(function(Input)
	if Input.UserInputType==Enum.UserInputType.MouseButton1 then
		local mouse = game.UserInputService:GetMouseLocation()
		local ray = workspace.Camera:ViewportPointToRay(mouse.X, mouse.Y)
		local result = workspace:Raycast(ray.Origin, ray.Direction * 1000)
		if result then
			local hit = result.Position--CFrame.new(result.Position)
			makepart(hit)
		end
	end
end)
--compared to
UIS.InputBegan:Connect(function(Input)
	if Input.UserInputType==Enum.UserInputType.MouseButton1 then
		local hit=mouse.Hit.Position
		makepart(hit)
	end
end)

I am aware that in the second example, if you click on nothing it just makes a part in the middle of nowhere.

[bytesleuth]

You could make a function so you don’t need to write it all out but I find the first example better because I don’t like the mixing of UserInputService and Mouse in the second one.