How to make it so that, if the player clicked the screen, or their mouse and their tool is touching something it will fire something

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#1

I am trying to figure out how to make it so that, it checks if the player clicked their mouse and the tool they are holding is touching something. I know the functions, and event stuff. I just don’t know how to put it together.

#2

Basically you can either do a mousebutton1 down or user input began on mouse button 1 then run a check to find a tool in the character

local tool = Character:FindFirstChildWhichIsA(“Tool”) --i think thats what it is

then run a if statement

if tool then
– then you can fire the remote even you want
end

#3

Roblox has created a specific event for tools on a “clicked” event, like this:

tool.Activated:Connect(function()

The activated event will register the click when a player is holding a tool
Then you can use the Handle part of a tool and used the Touched event to check if it is colliding with a Part or something

#4

It’s not working.

glove.Activated:Connect(function()
	if canslap == true then
		canslap = false
		hand.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
			local targetedplayer = hit.Parent
			local humanoid = targetedplayer:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
			local locatedhead = targetedplayer:FindFirstChild("Head")
			if humanoid then
				playerslapped:FireServer(targetedplayer, humanoid, locatedhead)
			end
		end)
		local animation = game.Players.LocalPlayer.Character.Humanoid:LoadAnimation(script.Parent.SlapAnim)
		animation:Play()
		wait(2)
		canslap = true
	end
end)
#5

Is your tool’s property “Enabled” set to check?

#6

I would also do

if #hand:GetTouchingParts() > 0 then

end

this checks if its currently touching something or not

#7

Why not use .Touched event though?

#8

I didn’t understand you much, if the tool is only usable when its touching something use the code I sent, if not use ClientCast V2 for hitboxes (If you want a more reliable one) or use .Touched
And use Tool.Activated:Connect(function()

#9

I tried this, and it ended up not working.

		if #hand:GetTouchingParts() > 0 then
			local hit = hand:GetTouchingParts()
			local targetedplayer = hit.Parent
			local humanoid = targetedplayer:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
			local locatedhead = targetedplayer:FindFirstChild("Head")
			if humanoid then
				playerslapped:FireServer(targetedplayer, humanoid, hit)
			end
		end
#10

Nevermind, I found an alternative solution. If anyone wants to know what I instead use, I just added a debounce on the .Touched event part.,

#11

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