Im making a button simulator, but i dont want to use .Touched because its not as good, and it also kinda hurts to mash the keyboard whenever the player is pushing buttons, so i wanted to use raycasting but that isnt working and also i dont know how i would use it.
#How to make Buttons work without .Touched
rotund rock
verbal sundial
getpartboundsinbox?
rotund rock
what does that do?
queen flower
what does that do?
It gets all the parts in a specified region in the shape of a box
Raycasting is also a good method to solve your problem, as well, so I would continue to experiment with that
finite mica
Im making a button simulator, but i dont want to use .Touched because its not as...
you could just like
use collectionservice
rotund rock
whats that
finite mica
so you only need 1 .Touched event
its a service that lets you get all the objects with the same tag
queen flower
CollectionService could work as well, yeah
Would be trickier to implement than just using a raycast, in my opinion, though
rotund rock
Im using raycast, but i cant get it to work
like
it doesnt print any result
i tried rotating it every way possible
timid vale
Im making a button simulator, but i dont want to use .Touched because its not as...
what makes you think raycast is better than .touched
rotund rock
because .touched only works when the player is moving on the part
and i can fire raycast every set ammount of time
timid vale
skill issue
rotund rock
i forgot how to check for the hrp without all this code
it keeps printing RayCast Had No Result
timid vale
Just slightly harder
literally easier
timid vale
i forgot how to check for the hrp without all this code
well at least you're raycasting from the character instead of from every button
timid vale
did you maybe consider putting a big invisible hitbox on top of the button where the player would be standing, instead of connecting to the button's surface which will periodically fire when moving?
queen flower
i forgot how to check for the hrp without all this code
You have an intriguing method of getting the players character
rotund rock
did you maybe consider putting a big invisible hitbox on top of the button where...
so i thought of that, but idk how to do that
queen flower
i forgot how to check for the hrp without all this code
Uh, interesting raycast direction btw
timid vale
how can you manage a raycast but not know how to connect to .touched+.touchended and filter for hrp's?
queen flower
i tried every single thing
You have it pointing directly out the side lol
rotund rock
i know
queen flower
Also, there's no need for the raycast part
rotund rock
how can you manage a raycast but not know how to connect to .touched+.touchended...
uh
idk :3
queen flower
Just use the humanoidrootparts position as an origin with a raycast direction of Vector3.new(0, -4, 0)
queen flower
Just use the humanoidrootparts position as an origin with a raycast direction of...
Make sure to set the overlap params to not hit on the player as well
rotund rock
whats an overlap parameter
fair sundial
so you want to make a button
that neees ro be touched
but you don't want touched?
timid vale
i forgot how to check for the hrp without all this code
you can get the player's character from player.Character fyi
fair sundial
the ultrashit?
rotund rock
i want it so the player doesnt have to move
queen flower
ai is stupid with code, but not bad with it.
If you consider a laggy mess that takes more time debugging than it would have taken to write it manually "not bad," then yeah
timid vale
If you consider a laggy mess that takes more time debugging than it would have t...
yea, that's ai's stupidity
rotund rock
wait a sec why shouldn't you use .Touched for this
i want it so it triggers every x ammount of time
not every time the player collides with it
queen flower
oh wait, I mistook overlap params for raycast params
fair sundial
Overlap is for sparial query
queen flower
wait a sec why shouldn't you use .Touched for this
.Touched is just inefficient for this. It's much easier to just get a ray that presses a button every once in a while, that way you don't have to go through the loops of getting it to detect when your player leaves the button or not
queen flower
i want it so the player doesnt have to move
Btw, here's a snippet of code I whipped up in like 10 seconds that you can use to see how the raycast params work
local character = script.Parent
local humRp = character.HumanoidRootPart
while task.wait() do
local rp = RaycastParams.new()
rp.FilterDescendantsInstances = character:GetChildren()
local ray = workspace:Raycast(humRp.Position, Vector3.new(0, -4, 0), rp)
if ray then
print(ray.Instance, ray.Position)
end
end