Hello, I’m currently making an SCP game, and need to make SCP-173 (If you look away, 173 snaps your neck). Anyway, I need to know how I can make a script check if an object is in a player’s field of view, how can I do this?
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Perhaps this will help you
This function can help you: Camera | Documentation - Roblox Creator Hub
The function above returns two values, a Vector3 that represents the offset of the world point from the top-left corner of the screen, and a bool that indicates whether or not the point can be seen on the screen. It will be true if it’s on-screen, otherwise it’s false
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Part’s have CFrames, CFrames have a property called LookVector, which is a unit vector in the direction the part is facing.
From trigonometry, A:Dot(B) / (len(A)len(B)) is the cosine of the angle between A and B:
and a unit vector is a vector with a magnitude of 1, so dividing by the magnitude of a unit vector makes no difference, aka is trivial.
Therefore the angle between two vectors in RBXLua is:
local a = Vector3.new(1,5,3)
local b = Vector3.new(2,-1,0)
local angleBetween = math.acos(a.unit:Dot(b.unit))
This gives the angle in radians, and a players fov is by default 70 degrees, pi/2 radians is 90 degrees, so if we do 7/9 * pi/2 to get 70 degrees in radians, we can then do an if check
if angleBetween > math.pi/2 * 7/9 then
--PLAYER IS LOOKING AWAY!
end
and the code can be made into a function passing in a,b as arguments and returning true/false for looking away status:
function IsPlayerLookingAt(PlayerHead, Model)
local a = PlayerHead.CFrame.LookVector
local b = Model.PrimaryPart.CFrame.LookVector
local angleBetween = math.acos(a.unit:Dot(b.unit))
return angleBetween < math.pi*7/18
end
And then solving whether the player can see the monster is just using IsPlayerLookingAt and a Raycast to check for obstructions.
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It actually requires the CFrame of the currentcamera, but its pretty inacurate.