Smooth NPC Rotating

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#1

I’d like to make a way for my game’s NPCs to rotate and “look” at players while moving, without locking them in place.

I tried achieving this with BodyGyros, which worked for most situations but ultimately fell short due to conflicts with other BodyMovers and movements.

The rotation I am going for would ideally be similar to how a Player would rotate when moving their mouse in First Person/Shift Lock, simply rotating their body without applying any external forces.

Is there a consistent way to make an NPC face different directions like a Player?

#2

if its not really a important feature of the game you could just make it client sided and use run service to make it look at the player

#3

This is an extremely important feature to have, as some attacks require the body to be aiming at the player (as well as hitbox alignment).

#4

have you attempted trying springs? NOT the roblox ones

#5

I’ve never heard of this being used for rotation, nor do I know what the Non-Roblox springs are.

This seems like it could be an interesting solution, do you have more information on how I could use these?

#6

also i meant not spring constraints springs are more like a module script used for different things and a alternative for tween-service with rotation especially in 2d

#7

if you want i can send you the module

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#8

Yeah, that’d be great.

Does this module work well in 3D environments as well?

#9

i think so
but if you want to find different modules you cant really find it on youtube you gotta find in the devfourm
Spring.lua (3.3 KB)

#10

this is the github for it