Parent tool to workspace

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#1

I want to my create my own custom inventory and therefore tried implementing a way to drop your items. I thought this would be very easy, just parent the tool to the workspace but it turned out to be harder than I thought.

When parenting the tool to the workspace, roblox for some reason parents it to the character again. I tried finding solutions in the devForum, read through tools and tried solutions with :getPropertyChanged or a repeat - until loop but nothing worked. I’ve watched multiple tutorials but apparently it works there by just parenting it to the workspace.

Here is the part of the script:

Script 
local function processDropItem(player, Item)
	if Inventory[player.UserId] then
		local ItemInTable = table.find(Inventory[player.UserId], Item) -- item is string
		if ItemInTable then
			local character = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
			local itemAsInstance = character:FindFirstChild(Inventory[player.UserId][ItemInTable])
			if itemAsInstance then
				itemAsInstance.Parent = workspace
				local handle = itemAsInstance:FindFirstChild("Handle") or itemAsInstance:FindFirstChild("HandleDisabled")
				handle.CFrame =  CFrame.new(character.HumanoidRootPart.Position + Vector3.new(0, 2, 0))
				handle.Name = "HandleDisabled"
				table.remove(Inventory[player.UserId], ItemInTable)

				return "success"
			end
		else
			return "error"
		end
	end
end
DropItem.OnServerInvoke = processDropItem

Here is a video of it as well:

Thank you for your time and help!

#3

This might work to fix your problem, although to be honest I don’t know what’s causing the problem in the first place at the moment

local function processDropItem(player, Item)
	if Inventory[player.UserId] then
		local ItemInTable = table.find(Inventory[player.UserId], Item) -- item is string
		if ItemInTable then
			local character = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
			local itemAsInstance = character:FindFirstChild(Inventory[player.UserId][ItemInTable])
			if itemAsInstance then
				itemAsInstance.Parent = workspace
				local handle = itemAsInstance:FindFirstChild("Handle") or itemAsInstance:FindFirstChild("HandleDisabled")
				handle.CFrame =  CFrame.new(character.HumanoidRootPart.Position + Vector3.new(0, 2, 0))
				handle.Name = "HandleDisabled"
				table.remove(Inventory[player.UserId], ItemInTable)
				local item = character:FindFirstChild(itemAsInstance.Name)
				if item then item:Destroy() end

				return "success"
			end
		else
			return "error"
		end
	end
end
DropItem.OnServerInvoke = processDropItem
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#4

The tool touched the head of your character. Possibly why its parent is your character
I guess, change the position where the tool will be dropped?

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#5

Thank you very much!
It parented to the character once I touched it because I changed the name of the handle after parenting it to the workspace. Now, Im changing the name first, and then parent it. Thank you for that tip

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