Making a smooth pet system

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#1

Ok so right now im trying to create a pet follow system and while ive had a degree of success I am not pleased by my results. so currently what im doing in keeping a part relative to the player’s humanoidrootpart via renderstepped and then tweening the pet model up and down off that part which is giving me an result looking like this https://gyazo.com/3f179bda8d59d877a05b25336c150124

Im wondering how I can make the transition smoother with the pet following the player because right now it just feels like the pet is physically attached.

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#2

To make it simple and have you write less code, you could just put a BodyPosition inside the relative part. Then every game-tick, update the BodyPosition desired position to the prior relative position of the player. This will make your ‘pet’ feel ‘springy’ so that it doesn’t instantly move when you move.

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#3

would this work on models too?

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#4

Well, according to you, you are “keeping a part relative to the player’s humanoidrootpart via renderstepped and then tweening the pet model up and down”. It seems like all your part does is store a Vector3 position that the model is using for it’s tweening reference position. By doing what I instructed prior, all you are doing is just changing the reference part position in a different manner.

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#5

I would look into this for positioning the pet:

Also, setting the pet’s NetworkOwner to the client would help everything look a lot smoother.

#6

Ye, im already handling pets on client to allow player to have the option to see other player’s pets or not to support lower end devices

#7

in RenderStepped when you update the part’s CFrame relative to the player’s CFrame, instead lerp it by 90% of so using the :Lerp method, and then apply the up/down tween translation afterwards. This’ll make it glide to follow the player but not feel like it is attached, and is a very simple change to make.

RunService.RenderStepped:Connect(function(dT)
    local NewCF = HumanoidRootPart.CFrame * PetOffset --offset of hover eg cf(3,5,5)
    Pet.RootPart.CFrame = Pet.RootPart.CFrame:Lerp(NewCF, .9) * TweenOffset
end)
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#8

thx for the alternate method, however I will prob stick with @jody7777 since it is simplest and also greatly shortens my code. but thx for responding