[HELP!] - How do I rotate WELDED parts with Script?

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#1

Hello guys, I want to rotate the wheels of the hover, but they are welded to the hover and the hover is welded to the player. How do I do this?

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#2

you can rotate welded parts using the CFrame property of the parts. The CFrame property represents the position and orientation of a part in 3D space.

To rotate a part, you need to create a new CFrame that represents the desired orientation, and then assign it to the part’s CFrame property.

Here’s an example of how you could rotate the wheels of a hover while the hover is welded to the player:

local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local hover = player.Character.Hover
local wheel1 = hover.Wheel1
local wheel2 = hover.Wheel2

local rotationAmount = math.rad(45)
local rotationMatrix = CFrame.new(0,0,0, math.cos(rotationAmount), 0, -math.sin(rotationAmount), 0, 1, 0, math.sin(rotationAmount), 0, math.cos(rotationAmount))

wheel1.CFrame = wheel1.CFrame * rotationMatrix
wheel2.CFrame = wheel2.CFrame * rotationMatrix

In this code, player is a reference to the local player, hover is a reference to the hover object, and wheel1 and wheel2 are references to the wheels. The rotationAmount variable holds the amount of rotation in radians, and the rotationMatrix variable holds a CFrame that represents the rotation. Finally, the CFrame of each wheel is updated by multiplying it with the rotationMatrix .

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#3

Assuming you use the weld object for welding instead of weldConstraint, just set weld.C1 to weld.C1 * CFrame.Angles(math.rad(1),0,0) for one degree of rotation.

#4

It doesn’t work, when the wheels are rotated, the hover is also rotated. I only want the wheels to rotate, even though they are welded.

#5

I use weld constraint all the time

#6

Is there a reason you can’t use a hinge constraint? Welds are made specifically to maintain the same CFrame of one part, relative to another part, not for parts that need to be moving relative to one another

#7

Hinge Constraints use attachments, and they are difficult to set up in a Script.

for i, wheel in pairs(physicalplayer.Vehicle.Wheels:GetChildren()) do

		local WheelPosition = WheelPositions:FindFirstChild(wheel.Name.."Position")
		print(WheelPosition)
		wheel.Position = Body.Position + WheelPosition.Value
		wheel.Size = WheelSize.Value

		local weld = Instance.new("WeldConstraint",wheel)
		weld.Part0 = wheel
		weld.Part1 = Body

	end
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#8

Couldn’t you just add the attachments to the models you’re cloning, set up their positions and orientations in studio, then create the hinge in place of creating the weld?

#9

I found here another possible solution in this topic, but I dont understand what CFrame:Inverse() does…

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