How to let player control a model with regular controls?

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#1

I want to make a feature where the player uses WASD they move the model that they are looking at, currently I am not sure how to do this one bit, and I just need pointers into the right direction as of now.
I only have the camera following the model.

Along with this other side issue I’m having, I have a cloned model (this is what the player is controls) spawn when a player clicks the space bar, yet I want it to kinda push off, not just drop straight down (Shown below)

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I tried to create this by when the model is created, a LinearVelocity is implemented but it had no change to how the model fell, aswell with zero errors.

Any suggestions on how to make a controlling system (and I’ve watched almost every video I have found for it so far, but none of them really work), and what would I use to give it a little push when the model is spawned into workspace.

local MakePoop = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage"):WaitForChild("MakePoop")
local ChangeCam = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage"):WaitForChild("ChangeCam")
local Poop = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage"):WaitForChild("Poop")
local HideUI = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage"):WaitForChild("HideUI")

MakePoop.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player)
	local playersPoop = Poop:Clone()
	playersPoop.Name = tostring(player.Name).."_Poop"
	playersPoop.Parent = game.Workspace
	ChangeCam:FireClient(player, playersPoop.CamPart)
	
        -- here is where i made the linear velocity
	local LinearVelocity = Instance.new("AlignPosition")
	LinearVelocity.Parent = playersPoop.CamPart
	LinearVelocity.Visible = true
	LinearVelocity.Attachment0 = playersPoop.CamPart.Attachment
	LinearVelocity.MaxForce = math.huge
	LinearVelocity.MaxForce = playersPoop.CamPart.CFrame.LookVector * 100
	LinearVelocity.Enabled = true
end)

What I have right now

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#2

You could use AssemblyLinearVelocity.

Object.AssemblyLinearVelocity = Vector3.new(0, 0, 3)

Just mess around with the vector3 till its in the direction you want.

#3

Thnk you ! I did a little digging around on

and found :ApplyImpulse which works a bit better :+1:

Would you by chance have any idea on where to start with this ?

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#4

When you create the character model, you could use it on the root part. So something like this

RootPart:ApplyImpulse(Vector3.new(0, 0, 3))

It also uses a vector3.

#5

Oh no no, I had it working in my reply. Was just letting you know.

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#6

Ohhh ok sorry, didn’t fully understand.

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#7

Could you help me understand how you are currently making the model move? Or does it not move yet.

#8

It doesn’t move right now except for the ApplyImpulse, which I did with

for _, v in pairs(playersPoop:GetChildren()) do
		if v:IsA("Part") then
			v:ApplyImpulse(Vector3.new(-3,0,0))
		end
	end

I have no control over it as it is just the camera attached to it.

ChangeCam.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(campart)
	
	RunService.RenderStepped:Connect(function()
		cam.CameraSubject = campart
		cam.CameraType = Enum.CameraType.Track
		--cam.CFrame = campart.CFrame
	end)
end)

This is what I have.

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#9

Alright. Could you send me a screenshot of the contents of the model?

#10

Once the script clones it into the game it looks like this
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but before when it is waiting to be cloned it is this
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Inside all the parts and WeldConstraints and Attachments
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#11

You could attach a sphere to the camera part with a ball socket constraint and then put an angular velocity into the sphere. Then you could constantly set the angular velocity using a script.

local Humanoid = Character.Humanoid
local MovementSpeed = 50

game["Run Service"].RenderStepped:Connect(function()
	
	local forwardMovement = Humanoid.MoveDirection.X
	local sideMovement = Humanoid.MoveDirection.Z
	
	Poop.MovementSphere.AngularVelocity.AngularVelocity = Vector3.new(sideMovement, 0, forwardMovement) * Vector3.new(MovementSpeed, MovementSpeed, -MovementSpeed)
end)
#12

Where would I put this script & would I just change the RenderStepped line to if input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.W then

#13

Just remove the entire wasd checking thing, and put it there.

#14

What do you mean by WASD checking ?

I have nothing in my code yet to have any control on it. It just clones the model into workspace and makes the player camera track it

#15

I made this file of the model with some StarterCharacter stuff in it, would this sort of work ?

It doesn’t move too good though and gets stuck in the ground.

poopmove.rbxm (8.5 KB)

#16

Heres a character model i created.
Test.rbxl (39.8 KB)

#17

I made a new LocalScript inside of StarterGui named “Control” and put this in it.

It isn’t working, but I can’t seem to understand what woud be wrong with it ?

local player = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer
local playerName = player.Name
local UIS = game:GetService("UserInputService")

UIS.InputBegan:Connect(function(input)
	local CalledPoop = playerName.."_Poop"
	
	if input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.W and game.Workspace:WaitForChild(CalledPoop) then
		print("W pressed and Poop is in workspace")
		for _, v in pairs(game.Workspace:WaitForChild(CalledPoop):GetChildren()) do
			if v:IsA("Part") then
				v:ApplyImpulse(Vector3.new(3,0,0))
			end
		end
	end
end)
#18

With the script i gave you, you still need to define the character. I just wasnt sure the path the it.