Hello,
I am in need for someone to help guide me in the right direction.
I need to find out the values ~5 studs away left and right from the tree although it needs to be relative to where the player is standing. These values would be perpendicular to where the player is standing/looking. How would I go about doing this?
I have provided an example image below:
Sorry if I misunderstood, but you could get the LookAt from the tree to the character (it gives the direction of where the character is originating from the tree) and then manipulate the result LookAt direction twice to give a left and right of the tree.
From this perspective, the tree’s left and right would be inverted to the player, it’s not an obstacle just simply keep that in mind and write your code accordingly.
Now, how you find the left and right lookvectors of your LookAt is a bunch of balony, so I’m going to have to send you to another post made by a much more experienced man. Skip the Vector3:Dot() section and read all about Vector3:Cross. I’ll also attach some sample code I cooked up, but it probably won’t help in your case.
local lookVector = ...-- Your lookat value (Vector3)
local rightVector = lookVector:Cross(Vector3.new(0, 1, 0))
local leftVector = -rightVector -- oposite of right (left)
Here’s what I came up with:
And here is the code that makes this work:
local RunService = game:GetService("RunService")
local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local tree = workspace:WaitForChild("Tree")
local hitbox = tree:WaitForChild("Hitbox")
local xzPlane = Vector3.new(1, 0, 1)
RunService.Heartbeat:Connect(function()
local char = player.Character
hitbox.Min.Visible = false
hitbox.Max.Visible = false
if char then
local pivot = char:GetPivot()
local hitPosition = hitbox.Position
local dist = (pivot.Position - hitPosition).Magnitude
if dist < 10 then
local look = CFrame.lookAt(pivot.Position * xzPlane, hitPosition * xzPlane).Rotation + pivot.Position
local minRange = look * CFrame.new(-5, 0, -dist)
local maxRange = look * CFrame.new(5, 0, -dist)
hitbox.Min.WorldCFrame = minRange
hitbox.Max.WorldCFrame = maxRange
hitbox.Min.Visible = true
hitbox.Max.Visible = true
end
end
end)
The main CFrame magic:
local xzPlane = Vector3.new(1, 0, 1)
local pivot = char:GetPivot() -- The player's position
local hitPosition = hitbox.Position -- The tree position
local dist = (pivot.Position - hitPosition).Magnitude -- The distance between the player and the tree
local look = CFrame.lookAt(pivot.Position * xzPlane, hitPosition * xzPlane).Rotation + pivot.Position -- A CFrame looking at the tree from the player on the XZ plane
local minRange = look * CFrame.new(-5, 0, -dist) --< FINAL LEFT RANGE
local maxRange = look * CFrame.new(5, 0, -dist) --< FINAL RIGHT RANGE
Is this what you were looking for?
Thank you this is exactly what I was looking for.
Thank you for the concepts and ideas too, I will look deeper into this and see what I can learn.