Hey all, I’ve been working on my game recently, but I’ve run into an issue with something that I hoped would be a simple fix.
Goal: I want to clone a tool from a folder in a player to a player’s character.
Problem: A TouchTransmitter is not being created for the tool in question.
Here’s what I mean:
Normally, the descendants of tools typically look like this:
Pretty simple, right?
Now, when not in workspace or a character model, the “TouchInterest” is gone. No problem, that’s not an issue.
However, what is an issue is the TouchInterest is not created when cloning the tool and setting the parent of said tool.
It causes it to look something like this:
As you can see there is a huge lack of the handle of the tool. I wonder where it went?
I think you’re beginning to see the problem here.
What I’ve tried: I’ve searched through the devforum, but nobody else seems to be having this issue.
However, I do have 2 possible ways this might somehow be wrong:
First, here’s my code. To clear up, “Inventory” is a folder in the player’s character, with 5 children, all of which are folders named Slot1, Slot2, Slot3, ect. This is a localscript within a custom inventory GUI.
local inv = game.Players.LocalPlayer:WaitForChild("Inventory")
for i, child in ipairs(script.Parent:GetChildren()) do
if child:IsA("ImageButton") then
child.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
local num = string.sub(child.Name, 5, 5) -- grabs the number of the slot
for i, child in ipairs(game.Players.LocalPlayer.Character:GetChildren()) do
if child:IsA("Tool") then
if child.ToolTip ~= nil then
child:Destroy()
end
end
end
local tool = inv["Slot" .. num]:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("Tool")
for i, child in ipairs(script.Parent:GetChildren()) do
if child:IsA("ImageButton") then
child.BackgroundTransparency = 1
end
end
script.Parent["Slot" .. num].BackgroundTransparency = 0.8
if tool ~= nil then
local newtool = tool:Clone()
newtool.Parent = game.Players.LocalPlayer.Character
script.Parent.ToolTip.Text = tostring(newtool:GetAttribute("fullname") .. " // " .. newtool.ToolTip)
else
script.Parent.ToolTip.Text = "Nothing"
end
end)
end
end
However, if this is not the issue, this could also be a Roblox bug, but considering how this seems to only be effecting me, it’s probably something to do with my code.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
UPDATE: I’ve changed the cloning of the tool to be server sided like so:
--local script
local newtool = script.Parent.CloneTool:FireServer(tool)
--server script
script.Parent.CloneTool.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(plr,tool)
local newtool = tool:Clone()
newtool.Parent = plr.Character
return newtool
end)
But the issue persists, which confuses me further.