Is there any way to change the orientation of a pre-existing animation in game?

[Roame32 (Roam)]

I am trying to make a dash/ jump feature in my game where I leap in a certain direction and do a spiral in the direction that the camera is facing. I also want the player to face that direction while jumping, but my animation for the spiral part is flat:

This is what it looks like whenever I do the leap::

As of right now, I have attempted to change the orientation of the HumanoidRootPart to face the same way as my camera, but that just makes my character rotate in every single direction. I have also tried using the TweenService to do basically the same thing and it ended up the same.

I’m mostly wondering if this would even be possible, because as of right now my best solution is just remaking the same animation a few times and running a different animation depending on which direction the camera is facing, but that wouldn’t look as nice. Thank you in advance!

[Laqotaa (Laqota)]

I think you’re doing great. Try disabling AutoRotate Inside the Humanoid during this animation so that WASD doesn’t rotate the humanoid root until you land (or get out of the dash)

If this doesn’t work. Let us see your code.

[Roame32 (Roam)]

Thank you for your reply! Unfortunately, I’m still struggling to get it to work. Here’s the code I have for it so far:

local function createVelocity(part, velocitySize, duration, camera)

	local Attachment = Instance.new("Attachment", part)
	local LV = Instance.new("LinearVelocity", Attachment) 

	LV.VelocityConstraintMode = Enum.VelocityConstraintMode.Line
	LV.MaxForce = 2000 * part.AssemblyMass
	LV.LineVelocity = velocitySize
	LV.LineDirection = part.CFrame.LookVector

	if camera then
		LV.LineDirection = workspace.CurrentCamera.CFrame.LookVector
	end
	
	LV.Attachment0 = Attachment 
	
	game.Debris:AddItem(Attachment, duration)
end

function Movement.leap(player)
	animationTrack = player.Character.Humanoid.Animator:LoadAnimation(bulletJump)
	
	if playerState == "" and player.Character.HumanoidRootPart then
		
		playerState = "leap"
		animationTrack:Play()
		
        -- This is the main part I'm struggling with

		local hrp = player.Character.HumanoidRootPart
		local cameraVector = workspace.CurrentCamera.CFrame.LookVector
		hrp.Transparency = 0
		
		player.Character.Humanoid.AutoRotate = false
		hrp.CFrame = CFrame.lookAlong(hrp.Position, cameraVector)
		
        ----------
		
		createVelocity(hrp, 150, .5, true)
		
		player.Character.Humanoid.AutoRotate = true
		
		task.wait(.75)
		playerState = ""
	end
end

The issue that I’m seeing is that the HumanoidRootPart doesn’t rotate on its x-axis, which is what I need it to do more than anything

[Laqotaa (Laqota)]

Oh! I see the issue. Try using PlatformStand. It puts the Humanoid in a Physics State.

I also had to find a way to keep the player Rotated in that direction. It works, but I’m not sure if this is what you wanted. I also set the animation to loop. I’m not sure how it’ll look.

local function createVelocity(part, velocitySize, duration, camera)
	local Attachment = Instance.new("Attachment", part)
	local LV = Instance.new("LinearVelocity", Attachment) 

	LV.VelocityConstraintMode = Enum.VelocityConstraintMode.Line
	LV.MaxForce = 2000 * part.AssemblyMass
	LV.LineVelocity = velocitySize
	LV.LineDirection = part.CFrame.LookVector

	if camera then
		LV.LineDirection = workspace.CurrentCamera.CFrame.LookVector
	end

	LV.Attachment0 = Attachment 

	game.Debris:AddItem(Attachment, duration)
end

local animationTrack = player.Character.Humanoid.Animator:LoadAnimation(bulletJump) --Load this outside so it doesn't have to load every time
animationTrack.Looped = true
function Movement.leap(player)	
	if playerState == "" and player.Character.HumanoidRootPart then

        playerState = "leap"
        animationTrack:Play()

		local hrp = player.Character.HumanoidRootPart
		local cameraVector = workspace.CurrentCamera.CFrame.LookVector
		hrp.Transparency = 0

		player.Character.Humanoid.AutoRotate = false
		player.Character.Humanoid.PlatformStand = true

		----------
		local attachment = Instance.new("Attachment",hrp)
		attachment.Name = "TempAlignmentAtt"
		local b = Instance.new("AlignOrientation",hrp)
		b.AlignType = Enum.AlignType.AllAxes
		b.Mode = Enum.OrientationAlignmentMode.OneAttachment
		b.RigidityEnabled = true
		b.Attachment0 = attachment
		b.CFrame = CFrame.lookAlong(hrp.Position, cameraVector)

		createVelocity(hrp, 150, .2, true)
		task.wait(.2)
		
		local params = RaycastParams.new()
		params.FilterType = Enum.RaycastFilterType.Exclude
		params.FilterDescendantsInstances = {player.Character}
		local function cast()
			local ray = game.Workspace:Raycast(hrp.Position, Vector3.new(0,-1,0) * 5,params)
			return ray
		end
		repeat cameraVector = workspace.CurrentCamera.CFrame.LookVector b.CFrame = CFrame.lookAlong(hrp.Position, cameraVector) task.wait(.1) until cast() --this is scum, but it works so ARHHHH
		
		attachment:Destroy()
		b:Destroy()
        animationTrack:Stop()
		player.Character.Humanoid.AutoRotate = true
		player.Character.Humanoid.PlatformStand = false
		
		

		task.wait(.75)
        playerState = ""
	end
end

EDIT: I had to add back the Animations and PlayerState

[Roame32 (Roam)]

Thank you so much! I was unaware that your solution even existed, so I’ll definitely be looking into it more to understand it better. You were a huge help, thanks again!