How to check what direction is the player looking

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#1

I am trying to check if the player is looking by the X, Y or Z axis. I need to know how to do this in either the client or the server.

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#2

You mean you want to get player look orientation? i think you should just get player’s head orientation.

#3

Use LookVector == x,y,z

Character.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame.LookVector
#4

No I mean what axis are they looking towards. And even if I try that the head does not move with the clients camera.

#5

I’m sorry, What do you mean by that?

#6

oh, soo you want camera look vector? then you should use workspace.currentCamera.CFrame.LookVector

#7

How would I do that? Would I check which axis is greater (if it returns a Vector3)?

(nvm I did some more research)

#8

i think you will need to get orientation from camera CFrame. This page should help you do it:
https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/datatype/CFrame

then you should do something like this:
character.HumanoidRootPart.Orientation - [the camera Orientation].
Then you should change all negative numbers to positive.

#9
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local run = game:GetService("RunService")
local players = game:GetService("Players")
local player = players.LocalPlayer
local character = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local hrp = character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")

run.RenderStepped:Connect(function()
	if hrp.CFrame.LookVector.X > 0.5 then
		print("Facing north.")
	elseif hrp.CFrame.LookVector.X < -0.5 then
		print("Facing south.")
	end
	
	if hrp.CFrame.RightVector.X < -0.5 then
		print("Facing east.")
	elseif hrp.CFrame.RightVector.X > 0.5 then
		print("Facing west.")
	end
end)

Never mind, you’re asking for direction of the character’s position not movement direction.

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