Issue with orientation when cloned part to a tool

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#1

I’m not familiar with managing CFrames and their orientation, hence, I’ve came across an issue that sets a part's CFrame to the tool’s Handle CFrame, but doesn’t process part's orientation and is set by Handle.

Showcase of the issue:
https://gyazo.com/b430f607e8b70a838c2dcc1bd06f6472

The part, which is the cloned pepperoni, has an orientation of -90 at Z axis, which is then overlapped by the Handle's CFrame. I don’t know how to work around this. The orientation is basically then set to 0 when it’s meant to be -90.

clone.CFrame = handle.CFrame --issue here
clone.Anchored = false
local wc = Instance.new("WeldConstraint"); wc.Parent = clone
wc.Part0 = clone; wc.Part1 = handle

image

#2

You can modify the CFrame using operators.

clone.CFrame = handle.CFrame * CFrame.fromAxisAngle(0,0,90)

When you get a CFrame, it’ll copy ever aspect of it. But you can essentially offset from it using multiplication. I would recommend looking more into CFrames if you want to learn more. It’s not as complicated as it might seem, far from it.

#3

Thank you for the response, however, the operation doesn’t seem to work as intended. I’ve read the documentation about CFrame.fromAxisAngle() and it seemed like it required a vector and such.

I managed to develop an understanding of CFrame angles how they worked, and

clone.CFrame = handle.CFrame * CFrame.Angles(0, 0, math.rad(-90))

worked for me.

There was an error regarding unable to cast double to Vector3, so I already knew that would malfunction.

#4

Ah, I wasn’t to sure which one dealt with radians. I always wrote my own function:

function ang(x,y,z)
	x,y,z = x or 0, y or 0, z or 0
	return CFrame.Angles(math.rad(x),math.rad(y),math.rad(z))
end
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