How to make the character face your Controllers Joystick?

Nikkted · July 27, 2018, 10:09pm

I am looking for a way to make it so your character can face your XBOX 360’s Joystick, like how you can do with a normal mouse.

I am pretty new to Xbox controller support, and i only know how to input buttons and such.

This is my mouse script:

game:GetService(“RunService”).RenderStepped:Connect(function()
c.Humanoid.AutoRotate = false
c.Humanoid:SetStateEnabled(Enum.HumanoidStateType.FallingDown, false)
c.Humanoid:SetStateEnabled(Enum.HumanoidStateType.Ragdoll, false)
cam.CameraType = Enum.CameraType.Scriptable
local pos = CFrame.new(c.Head.Position.X,10,c.Head.Position.Z) + Vector3.new(0,20,10)
cam:Interpolate(pos,c.Head.CFrame,.1)
c.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame = c.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame:lerp(CFrame.new(c.HumanoidRootPart.Position, Vector3.new(m.Hit.p.x, c.HumanoidRootPart.Position.Y, m.Hit.p.z)), .25)
end)

Id accept anything really. Even a wiki link would help.

Thanks

AznDibs · July 27, 2018, 10:28pm

This returns the current direction of movement, you can set the HumanoidRootPart CFrame’s lookVector to this (with an exception case for when MoveDirection’s magnitude is 0)

Nikkted · July 27, 2018, 10:31pm

Would this work, if say i wanted my character to move forward, but he can also face backwards while running?

AznDibs · July 27, 2018, 10:46pm

Yeah, you could set it to negative MoveDirection.

Reselim · July 28, 2018, 1:11am

You can use the CFrame.new(Vector3 pos, Vector3 lookAt) constructor to make the HumanoidRootPart face a direction, which in this case is the (right) thumbstick position.

local UserInputService = game:GetService("UserInputService")

UserInputService.InputChanged:Connect(function(input)
	if input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.Thumbstick2 then
		local position = input.Position
		
		-- If the stick goes 10% past the center, activate
		if position.Magnitude > 0.1 then
			Root.CFrame = CFrame.new(
				Root.Position,
				Root.Position + Vector3.new(position.X, 0, -position.Y)
			)
		end
	end
end)

If you want to rotate it relative to the camera the solution is a bit more complex, but still similar:

local UserInputService = game:GetService("UserInputService")
local Workspace = game:GetService("Workspace")

local Camera = Workspace.CurrentCamera

local function Rotate(vector, angle)
	return Vector2.new(
		vector.X * math.cos(angle) + vector.Y * math.sin(angle),
		-vector.X * math.sin(angle) + vector.Y * math.cos(angle)
	)
end

UserInputService.InputChanged:Connect(function(input)
	if input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.Thumbstick2 then
		local position = input.Position
		
		if position.Magnitude > 0.1 then
			local look = Camera.CFrame.LookVector
			local angle = math.atan2(look.Z, look.X) + math.pi / 2
			
			position = Rotate(position.Unit, angle)
			
			Root.CFrame = CFrame.new(
				Root.Position,
				Root.Position + Vector3.new(position.X, 0, -position.Y)
			)
		end
	end
end)

Note: Both of these examples assume “Root” is the HumanoidRootPart