Placement System Toggle

[Fraggleblap]

Hello there!
I found this helpful topic on making a placement system, and it helps a lot. The thing I want to know, though, is how I can script a textbutton screen Gui to toggle placement mode on and off for the player.

Creating A Furniture Placement System

This guide was originally written for scriptinghelpers . The original can be found here . One of the most common requests I get for blog post topics are for a decoration placement system that saves. I’ve shied away from this topic in the past as there is no singular “correct” way to do it. That being said, I think it’s a good exercise for all game devs to go through and will potentially place a role in a future blog post I plan to write. In addition to change things up, I’ll also take the ti…

I would appreciate any and all help! Thanks!

[ThanksRoBama (Emma)]

I haven’t read the program you linked in details, but it seems like there’s a RunService.RenderStepped connection set up to update the preview model every frame. It appears to use ContextActionService to bind actions related to the placement system to user inputs.

To “toggle it on/off”, you’d have to disconnect the connections that should only be there when the system is active, and unbind actions that should only be bound when it’s active.

I would wrap that in two functions, called enablePlacementMode and disablePlacementMode. That way, a LocalScript can listen to your TextButton being clicked, and call the appropriate function. You might also want a function called getIsPlacementModeEnabled for this purpose.

[Fraggleblap]

Thanks. I’m not quite sure how to do that, but I found another way to make it work. I renamed the part where you place things, so it wouldn’t build, and then the button renames it what it originally was. I made another button that renames it, but I can’t click it with the placement mode on, or else it just places a furniture item and won’t activate the button.

[ThanksRoBama (Emma)]

How are you detecting if the mouse was clicked? If you use UserInputService.InputBegan, the second parameter that’s passed to the listener function is a bool indicating whether or not that input has already been processed, e.g. by a GUI button being clicked, or if the player is typing in chat for keyboard input. E.g.:

UserInputService.InputBegan:Connect(function(inputObject, gameProcessedEvent)
    if gameProcessedEvent then
        print("Event has already been processed, ignoring")
    else
        if inputObject.UserInputType == Enum.UserInputType.MouseButton1 then
            onClicked()
        end
    end
end)