Setting a Decal

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#1

I’ve been working on a building game that has commands, similar to blockate. I’ve been trying to make a command that creates decals onto a block’s surface. So far, I’ve got the function working, but the decal (the id is 11201552339) would not set itself.

I’ve tried rbxassetid:// and http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=, but both of them did NOT work at all.

My current code:

--// Services
local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService('ReplicatedStorage')
local MarketPlaceService = game:GetService("MarketplaceService")

--// Variables
local Events = ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("Events")

local CommandsEvent = Events:WaitForChild("Commands")
local CommandMessage = CommandsEvent:WaitForChild("CommandMessage")

local ExtraArguments = {
	"rotation",
}

local module = {}

function module.init(player, args)

	if args then

		local ExtraArg = nil
		local imageProperty = nil
		if tonumber(args[1]) then
			
			local ProductInfo = MarketPlaceService:GetProductInfo(tonumber(args[1]))
			if ProductInfo and ProductInfo.AssetTypeId == 13 then
				
				imageProperty = "rbxassetid://" .. args[1]
				
			end
			
		else
			
			if not table.find(ExtraArguments, string.lower(args[1])) then
				
				local userId = game.Players:GetUserIdFromNameAsync(args[1])
				if userId then

					local imageContent = game.Players:GetUserThumbnailAsync(userId, Enum.ThumbnailType.AvatarBust, Enum.ThumbnailSize.Size352x352)
					imageProperty = imageContent

				end
				
			else
				
				ExtraArg = string.lower(args[1])
				
			end
			
		end
		
		if ExtraArg == nil then
			
			if imageProperty ~= nil then

				local mouseTarget = Events.GetTarget:InvokeClient(player, "target")
				if mouseTarget then

					local mouseSurface = Events.GetTarget:InvokeClient(player, "targetsurface")
					if mouseSurface then

						CommandMessage:FireClient(player, "SUCCESSFULLY MADE DECAL!")

						if mouseTarget:FindFirstChild(mouseSurface.Name) then

							mouseTarget[mouseSurface.Name].Decal.Texture = imageProperty

						else

							local clone = mouseTarget:Clone()
							clone.Name = mouseSurface.Name
							clone.Parent = mouseTarget
							clone.CanCollide = false
							clone.CanQuery = false
							clone.Transparency = 1

							local inst = Instance.new("Decal")
							inst.Face = Enum.NormalId[mouseSurface.Name]
							inst.Texture = imageProperty
							inst.Parent = clone

						end

					end

				end

			end
			
		else
			
			if ExtraArg == "rotation" then
				
				print(args[2])
				if args[2] and tonumber(args[2]) then
					
					local mouseTarget = Events.GetTarget:InvokeClient(player, "target")
					if mouseTarget then

						local mouseSurface = Events.GetTarget:InvokeClient(player, "targetsurface")
						if mouseSurface then

							if mouseTarget:FindFirstChild(mouseSurface.Name) then

								mouseTarget[mouseSurface.Name].CFrame *= CFrame.Angles(0, math.rad(args[2]), 0)

							end

						end

					end
					
				end
				
			end
			
		end

	end

end

return module

If you are attempting to help me, please include explanations.

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#2

Roblox is weird and changes the ID to something else. Try using this ID instead: 11201552325.

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#3

Question, where did u get the ID?
Edit: The ID did not work either.

#4

I’m just a professional gamer. I inserted the ID into the decal, and it returned this: http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=11201552325

Well damn.

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#5

Yeah, that works when u set the Decal through the workspace, but not through script.

#6

It works fine for me when I run it through a script?

script.Parent.Decal.Texture = "rbxassetid://11201552325

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#7

This is what im doing

imageProperty = "rbxassetid://" .. tostring(args[1])
#8

I mean I did mention that Roblox is weird. Are there any errors?

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#9

Nope, no errors are occuring, just the decal not appearing.

#10

Is the decal’s face property assigned correctly?

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#11

Yes, I’ve tested it in studio and in-game.

#12

Weird thing for you to use tostring(...). Try changing it to a tonumber(...). IDs are numbers, not strings. :wink:

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#13

It works fine for me, don’t think that’s the issue.

Also wait, I’ve just realized. Decal’s texture property requires a URL, and for some reason when you do it via scripts it doesn’t convert it into one. So tonumber() is pointless for this.

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#14

That still did not work sadly…

#15

I get your point, but the main deal here is that if they want to use args[1] as a number, the best practice is to alter tostring() to a tonumber() call.

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#16

Try yeeting some debugging in your codes to see where the grand error is. Debugging is simple, just add print() statements in critical portions of the program.

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#17

Well, there aren’t any errors, and I have chat message occur when the command function is completed running. And it shows the message every time, so the error is the decal not setting.

#18

IDs are strings.

An example of an ID is rbxassetid://12345678. How would you add the rbxassetid:// without it being a string? The rest is a number, but the prefix isn’t. You can’t put strings into numbers, but you can put numbers into strings.

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#19

You’re probably using the wrong ID.

Use the Decal ID. In this case, it is http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=11201552325 or rbxassetid://11201552325.

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#20

Heres the thing, the ‘rbxassetid://’ string is being concacenated with args[1] or in this case, 11201552325.

"rbxassetid://" .. args[1]