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the basic explanation is in the title.
but heres it it with more detail.
what im trying to do is move a gui with the mouse even when its offscreen,
for example, is if you keep moving your mouse to the right, a gui would keep going in that direction, no matter how far you move right.
What is the issue? Include screenshots / videos if possible!
I dont know how to achieve this
What solutions have you tried so far? Did you look for solutions on the Developer Hub?
iv tried using GetMouseLocation() and the Mouse.X/Y.
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the exact need is im trying to semi-recreate the Pandemonium minigame from “Pressure”
if you ever played or seen it, it has a circle that you can move with the mouse, even when the mouse isnt on screen. im trying to semi-recreate that circle movement
I was editing my previous response, but I’ll just make a new post as you have responded.
To recreate the Pandemonium mini-game, my first instincts would be to use a GUI to simulate the mouse, like what @DataSigh said. I would add some “weight” to it, meaning after calculating how far the mouse has moved, apply a factor and move that GUI x pixels in y direction. After a while, you’d just set the GUI back to the center. To “reset” the mouse to the center, you could try toggling between locking and unlocking the mouse in first person.
I personally have never played Pressure, but I did look at a quick Youtube video online and this is my best guess at how to recreate it.
ive got the infinite mouse movment down but with one little side effect, when the mouse tps to center, the gui flashes to a spot before reseting to where it originally was.
the issue is that im using a delay(0) on turning off the mouse lock and reseting the pos, meaning that it dosent reset the pos instantly, if i do the reseting outside of the delay, nothing happens as it jsut reads the current pos as the currentposition, unlike while in the delay the curpos would be the position it was in before teleporting.
code im using below. (note that part of this code, [mostly the bound relations] is from a drag script i found a while back)
and if i dont use the delay function to turn off the mouse lock, it just dosent reset he position at all.
by any chance do you know a solution to this?
demo of the issue:
local UserInputService = game:GetService('UserInputService')
local frame = script.Parent
local leadFrame = Instance.new('Frame') do
leadFrame.AnchorPoint = frame.AnchorPoint
leadFrame.Position = frame.Position
leadFrame.Size = frame.Size
leadFrame.Name = `Lead {frame.Name}`
leadFrame.Visible = false
leadFrame.Parent = frame.Parent
end
local screenGui = frame:FindFirstAncestorOfClass('ScreenGui')
local inputChanged = nil
local inputEnded = nil
local mouse = game:GetService('Players').LocalPlayer:GetMouse()
local function getBoundsRelations(guiObject : GuiObject)
local bounds = screenGui.AbsoluteSize
local topLeft = screenGui.IgnoreGuiInset and guiObject.AbsolutePosition + Vector2.new(0, 36) or guiObject.AbsolutePosition
local bottomRight = topLeft + guiObject.AbsoluteSize
local boundRelations = {
Top = topLeft.Y < 0 and math.abs(topLeft.Y) or nil,
Left = topLeft.X < 0 and math.abs(topLeft.X) or nil,
Right = bottomRight.X > bounds.X and math.abs(bottomRight.X - bounds.X) or nil,
Bottom = bottomRight.Y > bounds.Y and math.abs(bottomRight.Y - bounds.Y) or nil,
}
return (not boundRelations.Top
and not boundRelations.Bottom
and not boundRelations.Left
and not boundRelations.Right), boundRelations
end
local lastMousePosition = UserInputService:GetMouseLocation()
local goalPosition = frame.Position
local lastMouseX, lastMouseY = mouse.X, mouse.Y
local MouseDir
game:GetService("RunService").RenderStepped:Connect(function(delta)
local currentMousePosition = UserInputService:GetMouseLocation()
local mouse = game.Players.LocalPlayer:GetMouse()
MouseDir = (Vector2.new(mouse.X,mouse.Y) - Vector2.new(lastMouseX,lastMouseY))
lastMouseX, lastMouseY = mouse.X, mouse.Y
local mouseDelta = currentMousePosition - lastMousePosition
local ran = math.random(-10,10)
local ran2 = math.random(-10,10)
local offset = UDim2.new(0,MouseDir.X* 4,0,MouseDir.Y*4)
local curpos = script.Parent.Position
delay(0,function()
if mouse.X <= 50 or mouse.X >= 1170 or mouse.Y >= 430 or mouse.Y <= 10 then
local Player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
Player:SetAttribute("MouseLockEnabled", true)
delay(0,function()
Player:SetAttribute("MouseLockEnabled", false)
print(tostring(curpos).." "..tostring(script.Parent.Position))
script.Parent.Position = curpos
end)
end
end)
goalPosition = script.Parent.Position+ offset
leadFrame.Position = goalPosition
local isInBounds, relations = getBoundsRelations(leadFrame)
if not isInBounds then
local x = (relations.Left or 0) - (relations.Right or 0)
local y = (relations.Top or 0) - (relations.Bottom or 0)
goalPosition += UDim2.fromOffset(x, y)
end
frame.Position = goalPosition
lastMousePosition = currentMousePosition
end)
frame.Destroying:Once(function()
leadFrame = leadFrame:Destroy()
if inputChanged then
inputChanged:Disconnect()
inputChanged = nil
end
if inputEnded then
inputEnded:Disconnect()
inputEnded = nil
end
end)```
I’m pretty sure that “flashing” is related to how you are moving the GUI. When the mouse position resets, I think your script calculates the difference in the previous coordinates and the new (reset) coordinates.
I’m not an expert in this field, but one suggestion would be to set the UI’s position to the center and temporarily disable the movement code before and after the mouse moves.
disabling it just made the reseting for some reason jsut stop working in general. but i did find a weird effect, when the mouse pos resets, the square seems to use the opposite of the access it was reset from
example: reseting from the sides will make the gui reset to the same Y access but flipped X (other way arround for up and down resets)
sorry for the double reply but, Nevermind! it truns out i needs the oter delay (surronding the if statement) or else it jsut didnt work. and now it works fine without the flash! now im going to try using the force direction
Last reply unless you ask.
Ive got a decent basic version working!!
source code: (Local) (also put under the frame u want moving)
local UserInputService = game:GetService('UserInputService')
local frame = script.Parent
local leadFrame = Instance.new('Frame') do
leadFrame.AnchorPoint = frame.AnchorPoint
leadFrame.Position = frame.Position
leadFrame.Size = frame.Size
leadFrame.Name = `Lead {frame.Name}`
leadFrame.Visible = false
leadFrame.Parent = frame.Parent
end
local screenGui = frame:FindFirstAncestorOfClass('ScreenGui')
local inputChanged = nil
local inputEnded = nil
local mouse = game:GetService('Players').LocalPlayer:GetMouse()
local function getBoundsRelations(guiObject : GuiObject)
local bounds = screenGui.AbsoluteSize
local topLeft = screenGui.IgnoreGuiInset and guiObject.AbsolutePosition + Vector2.new(0, 36) or guiObject.AbsolutePosition
local bottomRight = topLeft + guiObject.AbsoluteSize
local boundRelations = {
Top = topLeft.Y < 0 and math.abs(topLeft.Y) or nil,
Left = topLeft.X < 0 and math.abs(topLeft.X) or nil,
Right = bottomRight.X > bounds.X and math.abs(bottomRight.X - bounds.X) or nil,
Bottom = bottomRight.Y > bounds.Y and math.abs(bottomRight.Y - bounds.Y) or nil,
}
return (not boundRelations.Top
and not boundRelations.Bottom
and not boundRelations.Left
and not boundRelations.Right), boundRelations
end
local lastMousePosition = UserInputService:GetMouseLocation()
local goalPosition = frame.Position
local lastMouseX, lastMouseY = mouse.X, mouse.Y
local MouseDir
local doDec = true
UserInputService.MouseIconEnabled = false
game:GetService("RunService").RenderStepped:Connect(function(delta)
if not doDec then
return
end
local currentMousePosition = UserInputService:GetMouseLocation()
local mouse = game.Players.LocalPlayer:GetMouse()
MouseDir = (Vector2.new(mouse.X,mouse.Y) - Vector2.new(lastMouseX,lastMouseY))
lastMouseX, lastMouseY = mouse.X, mouse.Y
local mouseDelta = currentMousePosition - lastMousePosition
local ran = math.random(-10,10)
local ran2 = math.random(-10,10)
local knockChance = math.random(1,200)
local force = 1000
if knockChance == 1 then
local other = math.random(1,4)
if other == 1 then
ran2 += force
ran += force
elseif other == 2 then
ran2 += -force
ran += force
elseif other == 3 then
ran2 += -force
ran += -force
elseif other == 4 then
ran2 += force
ran += -force
end
end
local offset = UDim2.new(0,MouseDir.X* 4+ran,0,MouseDir.Y*4+ran2)
local curpos = script.Parent.Position
delay(0,function()
if mouse.X <= 50 or mouse.X >= 1170 or mouse.Y >= 430 or mouse.Y <= 10 then
doDec = false
local Player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
Player:SetAttribute("MouseLockEnabled", true)
delay(0,function()
Player:SetAttribute("MouseLockEnabled", false)
script.Parent.Position = curpos
doDec = true
end)
end
end)
goalPosition = script.Parent.Position+ offset
leadFrame.Position = goalPosition
local isInBounds, relations = getBoundsRelations(leadFrame)
if not isInBounds then
local x = (relations.Left or 0) - (relations.Right or 0)
local y = (relations.Top or 0) - (relations.Bottom or 0)
goalPosition += UDim2.fromOffset(x, y)
end
--frame.Position = goalPosition
if knockChance~= 1 then
frame.Position = script.Parent.Position:Lerp(goalPosition,1)
else
local tween = game:GetService("TweenService"):Create(frame,TweenInfo.new(0.05),{Position = goalPosition})
tween:Play()
tween.Completed:Wait()
--frame.Position = script.Parent.Position:Lerp(goalPosition,1)
end
lastMousePosition = currentMousePosition
end)
frame.Destroying:Once(function()
leadFrame = leadFrame:Destroy()
if inputChanged then
inputChanged:Disconnect()
inputChanged = nil
end
if inputEnded then
inputEnded:Disconnect()
inputEnded = nil
end
end)
(would be appreciated if you could mark one of the posts here as the Solution)