How people make smooth player movement?

[scribblestack]

Been looking at other posts on this website to try to find out how people make a smooth player movement.

This is the example I’m looking for.

As you can see, a character’s torso goes right, left, front, or back which I’m trying to find it out how to do it.

[WooleyWool (AWildWooleyWool)]

They are using the UserInputService. Check it out here: UserInputService | Documentation - Roblox Creator Hub

[scribblestack]

I see, do I have to rotate HumanoidRootPart with Cframing or Tweenservice? if it is then that would be kind of hard for me, but I can give a try.

[mistrustfully]

They are not using UIS, this is inverse kinematics.

[scribblestack]

Oh what’s Inverse Kinematics? I never heard of it.

[mistrustfully]

I’m not too advanced in it, so I can’t explain the code behind it, but basically its moving joints so the touch they ground where they should land.
There are a couple IK tutorials on the devforum, you should be able to find one for R6.

[scribblestack]

I mean, I’m trying to make something like this on this topic.

Simulating smoother character movement?

When a character changes direction when movement, by default it is almost instant unless they are moving at a very fast velocity. I want to recreate this, however, the only way I’ve achieved what I want is by changing the physical properties of the character parts, which would break aspects of my game. Default: With changed physical properties: Is it possible to recreate this in another way?

[WooleyWool (AWildWooleyWool)]

Take a look at this module: Inverse Kinematics Module - Easy Solver

[scribblestack]

Currently checking it out, I really don’t know what even I am doing right now, but I know how to put stuff to the right spots.

[MrNicNac (nox7)]

That just looks like specific animations playing (which, by default, uses Inverse Kinematics) for a specific movement direction. The smooth fading into the next animation is controlled by the fade of the playing of the next animation.

AnimationTrack | Documentation - Roblox Creator Hub

It’ll fade into the next animation and not snap to it. Giving you that smoothness you’re looking for.

[scribblestack]

Not looking for specific movement on animations. Just moving the Torso.

[dthecoolest]

Oh if it’s just the torso then this other resource may help:

Free R15 IKPF System (Inverse Kinematics Procedural Footplanting)

Open Source IKPF System Derived from @Scarious’s code, revamped by @iGottic What is IKPF? IKPF (Inverse Kinematics Procedural Footplanting) is world-influenced animation done entirely in code. Inverse Kinematics (IK) is a series of mathematical calculations done to “guess” how parts of a limb should appear based on an origin and vertex. Procedural Footplanting (PF) is hard-coding animation, typically influenced by the direction the character is moving. You may also know that as “IK Animation…

This is the bit of code that handles the torso leaning and also rotation using the character’s current velocity…A bit complex but I think it’s possible to learn if you separate the CFrame operations one by one and subsitute values for it and see what changes.

        local relv0		=lowercf:vectorToObjectSpace(rootvel)
        local relv1		=relv0*0.2
        
        do -- Upper Torso
            local goalCF = waistjoint.C1:Lerp(waist1*ANGLES(math.rad(relv1.Z),0.1*math.cos(right)-2*math.rad(relv1.X),math.rad(-relv1.X)):inverse(),dt10)	
waistjoint.C1	=	goalCF
end

[anxlr (anx)]

That is Body Lerping. Any movement you do from side to side it would lerp the body. You would need to make animations to do that

[kahwake]

@anxlr

Do you know how body lerping works? If so, please explain. Quite late but I would love to find out more about this!