How to make a selection box work

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#1

I need help with making a selection box when hovering over a part and whenever the mouse leaves it goes away.

a bit like when you select things

#2

Use the selection box. (I didn’t really use it by myself but I know what is it doing)

#3

oh thanks i’ll give it a read.
i will leave the post up see if anyone else has a better script for this

#4

I guess selection box is the best thing you can use.

#5

oh i never thought of using anything else other than Selection Boxes!
i mean like the code for the selection box

#6

You can setup a mouse.Move event, check if the mouse.Target == yourPart if it is then

local box = Instance.new("SelectionBox")
box.Parent = yourPart
box.Adornee = yourPart

else

if yourPart:FindFirstChild("SelectionBox") then
    yourPart.SelectionBox:Destroy()
end

Example:
(Local script, StarterPlayerScripts)

local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local player = Players.LocalPlayer
local mouse = player:GetMouse()
local part = game.Workspace:WaitForChild("yourPartsName")

mouse.Move:Connect(function()
    if mouse.Target == part then
        local box = Instance.new("SelectionBox")
        box.Parent = yourPart
        box.Adornee = yourPart
    else
        if yourPart:FindFirstChild("SelectionBox") then
            yourPart.SelectionBox:Destroy()
        end
    end
end)

Edit: changed a quote mark from the mobile version (“ to ")

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#7

or if the part actually has a reason to be selected like having a clickdetector they can use this instead

local part = script.Parent

part.ClickDetector.MouseHoverEnter:Connect(function()
	part.SelectionBox.Visible = true
end)

part.ClickDetector.MouseHoverLeave:Connect(function()
	part.SelectionBox.Visible = false
end)