Make player tilt towards a part

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#1

I want the player to tilt towards a part, it functions like a CFrame.LookAt but instead of setting the front surface of the humanoid root part to face the part, it uses the top, thus create a little tilt effect.
Heres my take on this: https://gyazo.com/2a181d1e08f0930b1e36d785ad3fbc63
It only applies for the Z axis, which is fine for me. However, the main issue here is when I move the part to the right, the player face the opposite direction of the part. And when I implemented the code into my main game its very messy and unusable
Heres the deplorable and simple code that I came up with

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
	local hrp = plr.CharacterAdded:Wait().HumanoidRootPart
	hrp.Anchored = true
	
	local part2 = workspace.part2
	local up = hrp.CFrame.UpVector
	
	while wait() do
		local dist = (part2.Position - hrp.Position).Unit
		local angleZ = math.deg(math.acos((dist:Dot(up))))

		hrp.CFrame = CFrame.new(hrp.CFrame.p) * CFrame.Angles(0, 0, math.rad(angleZ))
	end
end)
#2

I guess I would have to figure this out by myself

#3

Well, if you just want the top surface of the part you can use CFrame.lookAt but rotate it 90 degrees forward on the x axis, like this:

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
	local hrp = plr.CharacterAdded:Wait().HumanoidRootPart
	hrp.Anchored = true
	
	local part2 = workspace.part2
	
	while wait() do
		hrp.CFrame = CFrame.lookAt(hrp.Position, part2.Position) * CFrame.Angles(math.rad(90), 0, 0)
	end
end)
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#4

Thank you very much, it worked beautifully, I guess I kinda overthought myself.
By the way, I wonder if its possible to not make the player turn like this https://gyazo.com/d83c648f4fd280d5c8417f0518a9d3c4
Its a built-in function in roblox so I don’t think it’s possible but it’s worth a shot.

#5

I’m not sure if that’s avoidable, but you can make it look nicer by lerping the cframe instead. Maybe try this?

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
	local hrp = plr.CharacterAdded:Wait().HumanoidRootPart
	hrp.Anchored = true
	
	local part2 = workspace.part2
	
	while wait() do
		hrp.CFrame = hrp.CFrame:Lerp(CFrame.lookAt(hrp.Position, part2.Position) * CFrame.Angles(math.rad(90), 0, 0), 0.2)
	end
end)
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