How would i force player to face certain direction

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#1

Hello i am making a 2D game .

And i want to force player face right and left direction
like if he press A I want to make player face Left like Screenshot (19)

And if he press D then i want to make him face Right like this
Screenshot (20)

#2

First you need a direction vector which can be achieved with:

--Player position being the character's primary part
local Direction = (PlayerPosition - GoalPosition).Unit * 1000
--The goal position should be a direction you want the player to face for example it could be:
local GoalPosition = PlayerPosition + Vector3.new(0, 0, 3)

After you have your direction you just need to face the player as such which can be done either with a BodyGyro, AlignOrientation or just by setting the character CFrame

Setting the CFrame can be slightly snappy so if it is so just use a AlignOrientation but I will code up an example for the CFrame:

local GoalCFrame = CFrame.new(Character:GetPrimaryPartCFrame().Position), Direction)
--CFrame.new constructor will calculate for you to look at a direction when you include 2 arguments
Character:SetPrimaryPartCFrame(GoalCFrame)
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#3

First of all you can disable roblox default controls

local p = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local PlayerModule = require(p.PlayerScripts:WaitForChild("PlayerModule"))
local Controls = PlayerModule:GetControls()
Controls:Disable()

Then you can programm your own movements using the UserInputService and Humanoid:Move()

An example would be:

--Disable roblox control
local p = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local PlayerModule = require(p.PlayerScripts:WaitForChild("PlayerModule"))
local Controls = PlayerModule:GetControls()
Controls:Disable()

function refreshDirection()
	--Check if the character is alive
	local character = p.Character
	if character then
		local humanoid = character:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
		if humanoid then
			--Set the moving direction
			local direction = Vector3.new((keyD and 1 or 0)+(keyA and -1 or 0))
			humanoid:Move(direction)
		end
	end
end

local UserInputService = game:GetService("UserInputService")
UserInputService.InputBegan:Connect(function(input)
	if input.UserInputType == Enum.UserInputType.Keyboard then
		
		--When a key is pressed
		local key = input.KeyCode
		if key==Enum.KeyCode.D then
			keyD = true
			refreshDirection()
		elseif key==Enum.KeyCode.A then
			keyA = true
			refreshDirection()
		end
	end
end)
UserInputService.InputEnded:Connect(function(input)
	if input.UserInputType == Enum.UserInputType.Keyboard then
		
		--When a key is released
		local key = input.KeyCode
		if key==Enum.KeyCode.D then
			keyD = false
			refreshDirection()
		elseif key==Enum.KeyCode.A then
			keyA = false
			refreshDirection()
		end
	end
end)

Hope it helps.

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#4

Thanks guys for ur help . But i have got some work to do I will check if it works or not tomorrow

#5

This line is giving an error

local GoalCFrame = CFrame.new(Character:GetPrimaryPartCFrame().Position), Direction)

Error:
Workspace.RACHITMAGAR0.LocalScript:17: Expected identifier when parsing expression, got ')