Looking for advice but also help with achieving what I’d like to achieve 
For one, the light bounces as the player walks which is annoying. Also, I’d like the light to move with the player’s camera in 1st person, so if they look up, the light moves up as well.
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Hey, mabye you could still have the flashlight in the players hand but instead, remove the the light from the flashliht and instead have a part relative to where the camera is rotating that will give the illusion that its emitting from the flashlight and will help with the stabilization of the light
I appreciate the feedback! I’m a bit of a noob so I’m not really sure about how to go about that; however, I’ll look into that
Honestly its not as hard as it sounds just place a part say 5 studs in front of the cameras lookvector and then just udpaate the cframe to match the cameras cframe, so itll be 5 studs in front at all times but it will also have the rotation of the camera which will allow you to look up and also see the light
going from what astraIboy said
local flashlightPart = Instance.new("Part")
flashlightPart.Parent = WhereYouWantItToBe
flashlightPart.Position = (game.Players.LocalPlayer.Character.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame.LookVector * 3.5) + Vector3.new(5,0,0)
-- Run the setting cframe property in a loop for it to constantly be in that position
i hope this helps slightly, that’s the math done for you anyways lol
Oh my goodness! You’ve explained it so well — even included an illustration!
I’m quite a newbie scripter and camera stuff is a little confusing (I’m getting the hang of tweens though!) so I apologize if I ask silly questions!
Would I be doing all of this via a LocalScript in the StarterPlayerScripts? That is, placing the part & updating the CFrame?
The flashlight itself has a part in it that shines the light (which is probably the issue) and changes its color/material when on.
If I were to make the walking animation of the player less shaky… would that help with the issue as well?
I appreciate the help (I hate math lol)! Would this be a LocalScript in StarterPlayerScripts?
Update: NVM StarterCharacterScripts instead! Would it be a for, while, or repeat loop?
Actually put it into a localscript that would be in StarterCharacterScripts so itll work if the player dies,
Yes an animation that is less shaky could yield the results your looking for + my suggestion above!
It would in a heartbeat loop (aka technically a while loop), it updates every frame, meaning the part will be at the cameras cframe 5 studs in front every single frame
Also dont use @Qoucx code, theres an error in it because hes not actually setting the Cframe to a cframe hes setting it to a Vector3
just realised, just edited, thankyou for pointing it out lol
Try this code instead, it should work has intended
So we make the part outside of the loop and then we update its cframe inside of the loop
(we dont want to keep creating parts)
Voila!
Woah! Thank you thank you! Although, how did you insert the spotlight into the part?
Thank you so much! I appreciate it greatly! <3
It’s very easy so that the flashlight doesn’t move so the monkey doesn’t move either if you don’t know how then when it is equipped make an animation that doesn’t move the hand
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