Need help with my clicking script

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#1

I’m a beginner,
I’m trying to make a script that detects when the player clicks, I have no idea how I could make it, any help?

#2

Do you want the player to click a GUI button or do you need them to click a part? Can you clarify more on what you are trying to achieve? There are multiple ways for multiple things.

#3

Not any of those, I want to know how I can detect a player clicking in the screen.

#4

Like Button.MouseButton1Click?

#5

Yeah, but on the screen, I’ve been trying for a while now.

#7

Yeah, I’m trying to make it on all of the screen.

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#8

make A GUI button and make it invisible and make sure it fits the screen and any time clicked it will tell you its the easy way

#9

It’s supposed to turn on particles, though.

#10

.MouseButton1Click:Connect(func) is what I think you are looking for.

#11

Use user input Services to make that happen and yeah

#12

Hm, I’ll try that, Would it stop the sparkles after the player clicked?

Actually, I’ll try to experiment.

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#13

This Will Stop it after clicked yeah

#14

Hm, doesn’t seem to start the particles, And it doesn’t have any errors.

#15

Mind Showing the Script? I can help and see

#16

If you’re doing through this a gui object (textbutton), the player who clicked it would always be the local player. You can use a for loop to iterate through workspace, and enable particles on and off.

script.Parent.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function() -- Textbutton
	local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
	print(player)
	
	for i,v in pairs(game.Workspace:GetDescendants()) do -- Loop through workspace, you can if you want to have your particles in a folder, and loop through that instead
		if v:IsA("ParticleEmitter") then
			v.Enabled = true
			wait(3)
			v.Enabled = false
		end
	end
end)
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#17

Like @austingamer12345 mentioned, UserInputService would be a good way to accomplish this. Could you show us what you have currently?

Firstly, UserInputService does not work in “regular” server-side Scripts. Thus, in order to use this, you’ll need to have a Localscript locally stored, let’s say in StarterPlayerScripts which is a good area to place it. Then you’ll need to have a RemoteEvent stored in ReplicatedStorage (so that both the Script and Localscript can access it). And finally, have your server-side Script placed in Workspace or ServerScriptService (on the server).

Once you have that done, you’ll want to do something like this.

In Your Localscript:

-- Services
local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local UserInputService = game:GetService("UserInputService")

-- Variables
local RemoteEvent = ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("RemoteEvent")

UserInputService.InputBegan:Connect(function(input, gameProcessed)
    if input.UserInputType == Enum.UserInputType.MouseButton1 then -- When left mouse button is clicked
        RemoteEvent:FireServer("Start") -- "Start" indicates it was pressed
end)

UserInputService.InputEnded:Connect(function(input, gameProcessed)
    if input.UserInputType == Enum.UserInputType.MouseButton1 then -- When left mouse button is released
        RemoteEvent:FireServer("End") -- "End" indicates it was released
    end
end

In Your Script:

-- Services
local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")

-- Variables
local RemoteEvent = ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("RemoteEvent")

RemoteEvent.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player, message)
    if message == "Start" then
        -- Start your particles
    elseif message == "End" then
        -- End your particles
    end
end)

Hope this helps! And let me know if there’s any questions or errors with this.

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#18

I’ve used a very simple script, you’ll probably laugh at it, but here it is

local UserInputService = game:GetService(“UserInputService”
local function onInputBegan(input, gameProcessed)
if input.UserInputType == Enum.UserInputType.MouseButton1 then
script.Parent.Enabled = true
end

#19

Nevermind, I didn’t fix it, I made it a local script.

#20

If I were you I would use @MJTFreeTime script, he did a good job explaining a good solution. But it all comes down to if you are trying to run this on Server or on the Client?

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#21

for your case i suggest checking PlayerMouse API reference: Mouse | Documentation - Roblox Creator Hub
especially this part: Mouse | Documentation - Roblox Creator Hub

you don’t need to make any screen guis for this to work

inside a local script do:

local Players = game:GetService("Players") --i suggest using :GetService for services

local Player = Players.LocalPlayer --get the player 
local Mouse = Player:GetMouse() --get the mouse

Mouse.Button1Down:Connect(function()
	--run code here
	print("mouse was clicked at pos x:" .. Mouse.X .. " y:" .. Mouse.Y) --thats just to test it
end)