Mouse Position based gun orientation

[lukethebestpug (pugen)]

Topic - Weapon Systems

Hello, 2nd devforum post by the way

So, if anyone reading this has played armored patrol
Armored Patrol v9.5 - Roblox (newer version)
They’d know that the gun system, the way to represent aiming in it is to make the characters rotation and the arm rotations where the mouse is pointing
an example:

Thanks!

– Luke

[JackscarIitt (Jackscarlett)]

Well, you’d probably need to detect the changes made every time the Mouse moves so you’ll need to use a LocalScript for this Instance

You can get the Mouse by doing Player:GetMouse(), and using the RenderStepped event from the RunService you can detect where you want the Character to look at (Hopefully in a smooth transition?):

local Player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local Mouse = Player:GetMouse()
local Character = Player.Character or Player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local RunService = game:GetService("RunService")
local Root = Character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")

RunService.RenderStepped:Connect(function()
    local MousePos = Mouse.Hit.Position
    Character:SetPrimaryPartCFrame(CFrame.new(Root.CFrame.Position, Vector3.new(MousePos.X, Root.CFrame.Position.Y, MousePos.Z))
end)

For the character facing the where the gun is, I believe you can use Motor6D’s:

Make arms and head follow mouse

What you’re looking for is Motor6D.C0. This property allows you to set the offset of a part relative to another part in a rig. If you want to make the head look in the direction the camera is looking, I believe you can do the following: local cameraLook = workspace.CurrentCamera.CFrame.LookVector player.Character.Head.Neck.C0 = CFrame.new(Vector3.new(), cameraLook) -- Creates a CFrame that looks in the same direction as the camera You can also raycast from the camera in the lookvector directio…

[lukethebestpug (pugen)]

How would I use motor 6d’s?

sorry but it wouldnt let me post because i need more characters

[JackscarIitt (Jackscarlett)]

You can use them to animate Tool objects I believe

Here’s a good tutorial on how to use them in relation with weapons:

How to animate Tool Parts (Guns, Knifes etc.)

2022/12/13 Update: Can’t believe this thread is 3 years old, I have updated the majority content of this tutorial (including the code) and improved readability. Hello everyone! I am Headstackk. I have developed a Weapon Framework used in my game Weaponry. In this post, I will explain how to get started with animating tools, especially weapons on Roblox. In most of the Roblox weapon frameworks (Excluding advanced shooter frameworks such as Phantom Forces), I observed that they usually only ada…

[lukethebestpug (pugen)]

man, i was kinda dumb when i first posted this and was just looking for someone to write a script for me. oh well, time has passed and i’m looking into this stuff again. anyways, thanks for this, very helpful now that i know more about lua and what not.