Make player face whichever part the mouse is touching (done), while ignoring transparent parts (need help)

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#1

I am making a 2D game, and I have a script that makes the player face whichever direction the mouse is pointing, and it works properly.

while character:FindFirstChild("Humanoid").Health > 0 do
	game:GetService("RunService").Stepped:Wait()
	character.UpperTorso.CFrame = CFrame.new(character.UpperTorso.Position, Vector3.new(mouse.Hit.p.X, character.UpperTorso.Position.Y, mouse.Hit.p.Z))
end

However, I have transparent parts that act as hitboxes, and it because of this, it causes inconsistencies…

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(In the image, the player is not facing the mouse because there is a hitbox above the tree).

How can I fix this?

#2

You’ll probably have to swap from mouse.Hit to a raycast system, since you can use CollisionGroups with it.

  • Create 2 Collision Groups, one of them will be used for the HitBoxes.
  • Set The hitbox parts Collision Group to the “HitBoxes” collision group;
  • On the other collision group, set collision with “HitBoxes” group as false;
  • When using Raycast, set RaycastParams.CollisionGroup to the group you made that doesn’t collide with “HitBoxes” Group.
How to make player always face mouse with Raycast
#3

Mouse.Hit or mouse.Target will ignore parts that have the CanQuery property set to false.

#4

But there is one thing; to change the CanQuery property, the part needs to have the CanCollide property set to false (not sure if changing it through a script will work, but you can try it by categorizing transparent parts and using a for index loop). If that doesn’t work, I suggest trying @Dfzoz’ solution, as I don’t think you can set ignorelists for the mouse, like you can with Raycasting.

#5

I forgot to mention that these hitboxes had cancollide to false - they were meant so that players couldn’t place objects to close to another object, I may have used the wrong terminology, apologies.

#6

I was wondering, is there something like this for meshparts too?

#7

Yeah I think mouse also detects meshparts.