How to make a part/attachment's rotation to follow a players mouse

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#1

Hello so I’m currently trying to make a blast wave superpower ability, and I’m trying to simply make a concept but it becomes very difficult to find how I can rotate an attachment to the mouse’s position, I try using body torque but I didn’t know it wouldn’t work on an attachment. The attachment would be located inside one of the player’s hand, there is a particle emitter inside the attachment which looks like a little blast wave effect. However, After reviewing all other forums I couldn’t find any solutions for my problem, I need the attachment to rotate to the player’s mouse position smoothly without any offset unless specified. Or at the very least a method to position the rotation of the attachment to another part, essentially the attachment facing another part. Thank you for anyone helping me to figure out this issue, I currently made a script just for the purpose of testing this out with the following code looking like:

RunService.HeartBeat:Connect(function()
    attachment.Orientation = Mouse.Hit.Position -- I also tried using LookVector * 100
end

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#2

You don’t use orientation, you use CFrame.

CFrame is how you use position and orientation combined, but you can still only use one if you want.

RunService.HeartBeat:Connect(function()
    attachment.CFrame = CFrame.new(attachment.Position,Mouse.Hit.Position)
end

Try that, and tell us if it works.

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#3

Hey, thank you so much this works really well on parts, but im not sure why when it comes to attachments things begin to get funky and barely even moves

#4

Im not too experiencied with CFrame math but I see that it has worldposition values and just normal position, would this have anything to do with it?

#5

Maybe, try WorldCFrame. If that doesn’t work, I believe I have something that works for orientation.

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#6 
RunService.Heartbeat:Connect(function()
	RightHandAttachment.WorldCFrame = CFrame.new(RightHandAttachment.WorldPosition, Mouse.Hit.Position)
end)

Thank you!! The code above works, at first it didn’t but that was because the particle emission was set to top, I simply needed it to change it to another setting to make it work correctly. Thank you!!!

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