MouseHoverEnter and MouseHoverLeave are Unreliable, Looking for Alternatives

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#1

I’ve been working on a game that relies pretty heavily on Click Detectors. I’ve been using MouseHoverEnter and MouseHoverLeave, but I’ve been noticing that they are pretty unreliable.

I have it setup so that when the players mouse hovers over a cube, it creates a highlight instance in the cube and enables a BillboardGUI. Technically, it does work, but only about half the time, and only if you are looking the cubes from a very specific angle. Does anyone have an easy alternative to MouseHoverEnter and MouseHoverLeave that’s actually reliable and easy to implement?

#2

try using mouse.Target
example

local mouse = game.Players.LocalPlayer:GetMouse()
mouse:GetPropertyChangedSignal("Target"):Connect(function()
print(mouse.Target)
end)
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#3

this^

check if target is a cube, set other cubes highlight off and disable the billboard gui

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#4

I found that you have to create a new highlight instance rather than just enabling them. When there are large numbers of them (even disabled) they begin to bug out.

#5

how many is large number?

anyway, you should then just create a new highlight for the target cube and remove any highlights on existing cubes

#6

Well theres about 34 unique cubes so far, and they spawn in randomly, so there will be quite a few in the game. In my previous script, when the player hovered over a cube, it would create the highlight instance, and on MouseHoverLeave, it would destroy it.

#7

if you just need one highlight to be visible don’t create a bunch of them, instead make one and set its adornee to the part you need highlighted

#8

I completely forgot you can do that. I’ll definitely give that a try.