Position is not a valid member of Workspace "Workspace"

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#1

i’m trying to make a script that highlights objects. i followed this tutorial, but when i tried tweaking it, it throws an error. it’s telling me that the workspace has no position property. the reason why the error is thrown is beyond me, as i am not trying to check for a nonexistent ‘Position’ property in the workspace. how can i fix this?

local collection_service = game:GetService("CollectionService")
local player_service = game:GetService("Players")

local cool_tag = "interactable"
local max_dist = 25
local client = player_service.LocalPlayer
local character = client.Character or client.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local mouse = client:GetMouse()

local cooldown = false
local highlight = script:WaitForChild("interactable_outline")

mouse.Move:Connect(function()
	if not mouse.Target then highlight.Adornee = nil return end

	if (mouse.Target.Position - character.PrimaryPart.Position).Magnitude > max_dist then 
		highlight.Adornee = nil 
		return 
	elseif (mouse.Target.Parent.Position - character.PrimaryPart.Position).Magnitude > max_dist then
		return
	end

	mouse.Button1Down:Connect(function()
		if cooldown then return end 
		cooldown = true
		print(`interacted with interactable object {mouse.Target}`)
		-- add cooler logic here ..
		task.wait(0.5)
		cooldown = false
	end)

	if collection_service:HasTag(mouse.Target, cool_tag) then
		highlight.Adornee = mouse.Target
		return
	elseif collection_service:HasTag(mouse.Target.Parent, cool_tag) then
		highlight.Adornee = mouse.Target.Parent
		return
	end

	highlight.Adornee = nil
end)

-- (mouse.Target.Position - character.PrimaryPart.Position).Magnitude > max_dist
#2

it seems like its checking whatever targets parents position is, the target may be a a descendent from the workspace and it ends up checking for its parents position, which is the workspace

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#3

To be specific its Line 16 that is causing the error. Since Mouse.Target returns BasePart? which means it can be anything all you need to do is to make sure its a part and if it is it can continue through the rest of the script

Also i didnt see a point of adding else Mouse.Target.Parent

So i made my own version to test and this is the script that worked for me

local collection_service = game:GetService("CollectionService")
local player_service = game:GetService("Players")

local cool_tag = "interactable"
local max_dist = 25
local client = player_service.LocalPlayer
local character = client.Character or client.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local mouse = client:GetMouse()

local cooldown = false
local highlight = script:WaitForChild("interactable_outline")

mouse.Move:Connect(function()
	
	if not mouse.Target then highlight.Adornee = nil return end
	if not mouse.Target:IsA("Part") then return end
	
	-- if it is not in the max dist radius
	if (mouse.Target.Position - character.PrimaryPart.Position).Magnitude > max_dist then 
		highlight.Adornee = nil 
		return 
	end
	
	mouse.Button1Down:Connect(function()
		if cooldown then return end 
		cooldown = true
		print(`interacted with interactable object {mouse.Target}`)
		-- add cooler logic here ..
		task.wait(0.5)
		cooldown = false
	end)

	if collection_service:HasTag(mouse.Target, cool_tag) then
		highlight.Adornee = mouse.Target
		return
	end
	
	highlight.Adornee = nil
end)
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