How can you orient a bricks rotation to match that of the mouse direction?

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#1

I would like to orient a brick to match the direction a ray from a mouse is facing. The screenshot below might help show what I am looking to do:

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However, in practice I’ve seen results like this:

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I’ve tried these snippets so far:

Mouse.Move:Connect(function()
  local MouseEnd = Mouse.Origin + Mouse.UnitRay.Direction
   local newRay = Ray.new(AddedVehicle.VehicleSeat.Position, MouseEnd.Position)
  ControlPart.Orientation = Vector3.new(newRay.Direction.Y, newRay.Direction.X, ControlPart.Orientation.Z)
end)

Mouse.Move:Connect(function()
                    local MouseEnd = Camera:ScreenPointToRay(Mouse.X, Mouse.Y)
                    local newRay = Ray.new(AddedVehicle.VehicleSeat.Position, (MouseEnd.Origin + MouseEnd.Direction))
                    ControlPart.Orientation = Vector3.new(newRay.Direction.Y, newRay.Direction.X, ControlPart.Orientation.Z)
                end)

I’ve tried a wide variety of things, each one not seeming to work. Effectively I’m just trying to make a plane that is controlled by the mouse. I at least believe there is a UnitRay involved for the mouse, but beyond that nothing seems to work.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

#2

What you’ll wanna do here is make use of mouse.Hit.p

You can just set the brick’s CFrame to CFrame.new(brick.Position, mouse.Hit.p)

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#3

This worked! For some reason I thought this functioned like Raycasting, in which Hit could be nil.

Thank you so much!

#4

Don’t use Ray.new, it’s deprecated, instead use workspace:RayCast.

#5

Where is Ray.new listed as depreciated. The API does not show this: Ray | Roblox Creator Documentation

I’m aware things like FindPartOnRay are depreciated, but it does not seem as though Ray.new is depreciated.

#6

Thank you for correcting me, I forgot about that. Ray.new is not deprecated but functions that surround it are. Ray.new() and WorldRoot:Raycast() - #2 by OnlyJaycbee

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