What do you want to achieve? Keep it simple and clear!
I want the player and enemy to be at the same position and orientation during the attack as the animation plays.
What is the issue? Include screenshots / videos if possible!
the player and enemy are correctly positioned on the server but for the client side of the player it is incorrect (this also happens for players when i tested with the player emulator)
What solutions have you tried so far? Did you look for solutions on the Developer Hub?
I have seen some vaguely similar posts on the devforum suggesting this, so i tried using a remote event to fire the client and send the position and orientation to the client to see if it fixed it, but it hasnt changed anything.
CLIENT: [it made me go underground in the animation due to incorrect position/orientation?]
“Hum” is the players humanoid (person doing the attack)
“humanoid” is the enemy humanoid
“HRP” is the players humanoid root part
“EnemyHumanoidRootPart” is the enemy humanoid root part
Hum.AutoRotate = false
humanoid.AutoRotate = false
HRP.Anchored = true
EnemyHumanoidRootPart.Anchored = true
local attackerPosition = HRP.Position
local Y = HRP.Orientation.Y
--Making sure the player parallel with the floor
local attackerFlatCFrame = CFrame.new(attackerPosition) * CFrame.Angles(0, math.rad(Y), 0)
HRP.CFrame = attackerFlatCFrame
EnemyHumanoidRootPart.CFrame = HRP.CFrame
Discrepancies between server and client positions can arise due to latency or how the engine handles physics and animations differently on both ends. I would use RemoteEvents to ensure the client updates its position and orientation based on the server.
Ultimately the logic behind this is sending the positions to the clients, and force the clients so set the positions of the characters accordingly, as opposed to doing so on the server exclusively.
You may need to adjust the code a bit, but your server script would look something like:
local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local AlignEvent = Instance.new("RemoteEvent", ReplicatedStorage)
AlignEvent.Name = "AlignEvent"
-- Function to align characters
local function alignCharacters(attacker, enemy)
local HRP = attacker:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart")
local EnemyHumanoidRootPart = enemy:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart")
local Hum = attacker:FindFirstChildOfClass("Humanoid")
local EnemyHumanoid = enemy:FindFirstChildOfClass("Humanoid")
if HRP and EnemyHumanoidRootPart and Hum and EnemyHumanoid then
Hum.AutoRotate = false
EnemyHumanoid.AutoRotate = false
HRP.Anchored = true
EnemyHumanoidRootPart.Anchored = true
local attackerPosition = HRP.Position
local Y = HRP.Orientation.Y
-- Make sure the player is parallel with the floor
local attackerFlatCFrame = CFrame.new(attackerPosition) * CFrame.Angles(0, math.rad(Y), 0)
HRP.CFrame = attackerFlatCFrame
EnemyHumanoidRootPart.CFrame = HRP.CFrame
-- Fire event to clients with positions and orientations
AlignEvent:FireAllClients(attacker, HRP.Position, HRP.Orientation, enemy, EnemyHumanoidRootPart.Position, EnemyHumanoidRootPart.Orientation)
end
end
-- Example function call (call this function somewhere in your code when you need to do the animation)
alignCharacters(playerCharacter, enemyCharacter)
Handling the alignment on the client’s side (LocalScript)
local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local AlignEvent = ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("AlignEvent")
AlignEvent.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(attacker, attackerPos, attackerOri, enemy, enemyPos, enemyOri)
-- Update the attacker's position and orientation
if attacker then
local HRP = attacker:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart")
if HRP then
-- Smoothly update the position and orientation to avoid sudden jumps
HRP.Anchored = true
HRP.CFrame = CFrame.new(attackerPos) * CFrame.Angles(0, math.rad(attackerOri.Y), 0)
HRP.Anchored = false
end
end
-- Update the enemy's position and orientation
if enemy then
local EnemyHumanoidRootPart = enemy:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart")
if EnemyHumanoidRootPart then
-- Smoothly update the position and orientation to avoid sudden jumps
EnemyHumanoidRootPart.Anchored = true
EnemyHumanoidRootPart.CFrame = CFrame.new(enemyPos) * CFrame.Angles(0, math.rad(enemyOri.Y), 0)
EnemyHumanoidRootPart.Anchored = false
end
end
end)
Honestly thank you so much, this fixed it perfectly, you saved me so much time.
The only thing i had to do was run align characters more than once as the attack involved alot of movement in the starting phase causing inconcistency.
Seriously thank you!
