How would I find the characters ray direction?
What do you mean by ray direction? Do you mean move direction as in which direction the player is moving at?
Basically, the raycast direction of a part so I can know which way its facing
You could determine if a player is in front or behind a part by finding its position relative to said part
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I would but I do not know how to do that.
You can use BasePart.CFrame:ToObjectSpace(HumanoidRootPart.CFrame).Position
to determine direction relative to the part
From this example it determines the player’s position relative to the part and prints if the players humanoidroot part is beyond -Z of a part and another print if behind
local players = game:GetService("Players")
local Main = workspace.MAIN -- any basepart
players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
plr.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(char)
local taskcoro = coroutine.create(coroutine.wrap(function()
while true do
local HumRp = char:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")
local DirectionRelative = Main.CFrame:ToObjectSpace(HumRp.CFrame).Position
if DirectionRelative.Z < 0 then
print(plr.Name.." is in front of part")
elseif DirectionRelative.Z > 0 then
print(plr.Name.." is behind Part")
end
task.wait(.5)
end
end))
coroutine.resume(taskcoro)
end)
end)
If you want to know if the player’s character is directly in front of the part then you could add a condition to make sure the X coordinate of DirectionRelative never exceeds 1 or -1 or any range you choose
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It sounds like you’re just looking for LookVector, which is a property of CFrame.
LookVector gives you the direction that an object is facing. So you would type “HumanoidRootPart.CFrame.LookVector” in order to see which direction the character is facing.
Here’s a thread from someone asking how LookVector works.
character.PrimaryPart.CFrame.LookVector