How to make a tool break an object on touch

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#1

Hello! So, I wanted to make a tool that when a player clicks, it plays an animation and checks whether the handle hit a part, and if so, it destroys that part. How would I go about that? I tried making a tool.Activated function but that wouldn’t detect the part touch. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks!

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#2

When the tool is activated, connect a touched event to the part. Save the event to a variable.

When the deactivated event fires, disconnect the touched event.

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#3

So sorry, but I didn’t really understand what you meant by connect an event. Could you please give me an example script? Thanks!

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#4

part.Touched:Connect(someFunction)

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#5

Sorry if I didn’t explain well. I know how the touched events work, and how activated events work, but how would I do them together? So like, it only detects the touched event if the activated event has already fired. Thanks!

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#6 
part = script.Parent
tool = script.Parent.Parent
event = nil

function touched()
  --touched code here
end

function activated()
  event = part.Touched:Connect(touched)
end

function deactivated()
  event:Disconnect()
end

tool.Deactivated:Connect(deactivated)
tool.Activated:Connect(activated)
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#7

Hello, I will tell you a simple method on how to go about this and provide examples.

Tool Click:
The best thing I like to use when clicking with tools is by using UIS (User Input Service) to check what inputs they pressed along with a bool value checking if the tool is equipped. It should look something like this

local UIS = game:GetService("UserInputService")
local ToolEquipped = false

local TouchedEvent

local function ToolClicked(Input)
      if Input.UserInputType == Enum.UserInputType.MouseButton1Down and ToolEquipped then
         --Play animation
         TouchedEvent = (Handle location).Touched:Connect(function(Hit)
                if Hit.Parent:IsA("BasePart") and Hit.Parent == (whatever you are looking for) then
                     Hit.Parent:Destroy()
                end

                TouchedEvent:Disconnect()
         end)

     end
end
UIS.InputBegan:Connect(ToolClicked)
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#8

Oh thanks a lot! Let me check if the code works!

#9

It would benefit you to know, that you can save Connected event into variables, and then disconnect those events later.

This is how that is achieved.

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#10

Thank you!

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#11

If you have any extra questions, let me know!