Beginner scripter here, trying to recreate InFamous aiming and shooting system. So far I’ve gotten a functional camera/aiming system, along with the character facing towards the mouse, as it should in a third-person-shooter, though I have found a small issue that could compromise the shooting system in the future; hovering the mouse over a nearby obstacle snaps the character to face towards it.
I believe this issue might be caused mostly by the camera’s horizontal offset, which makes the character’s rotation more noticeable. The offset turns the ray from the character to
mouse.Hit.Position into a diagonal, which seems to slightly shift the character in order to properly force towards the mouse.Hit.Position. I’m pretty sure that’s the cause for this issue, but still, I have no idea on how to fix it, so any help is appreciated.
Below are the scripts that handle the camera and character’s rotation:
“PlayerInput” (LocalScript within StarterCharacterScripts)
local player = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer
local character = player.Character
local humanoid = character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
local camera = workspace.CurrentCamera
local aimingOffset = Vector3.new(2, .7, 0)
local defaultCameraOffset = Vector3.new(0,1,0)
local defaultFOV = 70
local UserInputService = game:GetService("UserInputService")
local isRightMouseButtonHeld = false
local boltEvent = game.ReplicatedStorage.Events.LightningBolt
local stateModule = require(game.ReplicatedStorage.Module.stateModule)
local isAiming = stateModule.isAiming
UserInputService.MouseIconEnabled = false
local debounce = false
local function onInputBegan(input, isProcessing)
if not isProcessing and input.UserInputType == Enum.UserInputType.MouseButton2 then
isRightMouseButtonHeld = true
isAiming = true
if isAiming then
UserInputService.MouseIconEnabled = true
print("Aiming is " .. tostring(isAiming))
camera.FieldOfView = 25
humanoid.CameraOffset = aimingOffset
end
end
end
local function onInputEnded(input, isProcessing)
if not isProcessing and input.UserInputType == Enum.UserInputType.MouseButton2 then
isRightMouseButtonHeld = false
isAiming = false
if not isAiming then
UserInputService.MouseIconEnabled = false
print("Aiming is " .. tostring(isAiming))
camera.FieldOfView = defaultFOV
humanoid.CameraOffset = defaultCameraOffset
end
end
end
local function shootProjectile(input)
if isAiming and input.UserInputType == Enum.UserInputType.MouseButton1 then
boltEvent:FireServer()
end
end
UserInputService.InputBegan:Connect(onInputBegan)
UserInputService.InputBegan:Connect(shootProjectile)
UserInputService.InputEnded:Connect(onInputEnded)
“CameraBehavior” (LocalScript within StarterPack)
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local player = Players.LocalPlayer
local character = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local humanoid = character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
local humanoidRootPart = humanoid.RootPart
local camera = workspace.CurrentCamera
local mouse = player:GetMouse()
local StarterPlayer = game:GetService("StarterPlayer")
local UserInputService = game:GetService("UserInputService")
local RunService = game:GetService("RunService")
local StarterPlayer = game:GetService("StarterPlayer")
local UserInputService = game:GetService("UserInputService")
local RunService = game:GetService("RunService")
RunService.Heartbeat:Connect(function()
local mousePos = mouse.Hit.Position
local targetPosition = Vector3.new(mousePos.X, humanoidRootPart.Position.Y, mousePos.Z)
UserInputService.MouseBehavior = Enum.MouseBehavior.LockCenter
humanoidRootPart.CFrame = CFrame.new(humanoidRootPart.Position, targetPosition)
end)
UserInputService.MouseIcon = "rbxassetid://15860340814"
player.CameraMaxZoomDistance = 13
player.CameraMinZoomDistance = 13
Once again, I am a beginner when it comes to scripting, learning by myself using only the documentation and forum, very rarely relying on tutorials (as most are just copy & pasting anyways), so any other advice regarding how I’m approaching these systems are more than welcome. I’m pretty sure I’m doing everything in the most horrid, painful, impractical way. Thank you in advance!