moveTo() moving piece slightly up?

[BrantGamer (BigMilkshakeMonster)]

1. What do you want to achieve?
   Idk how to explain this but I have 2 scripts that if you push a button it will move the current piece left & right by using moveto(). my problem is that if you click the button the current piece moves right & left but it also moves the current piece slightly up and idk what making it do that

2. What is the issue?
   The current piece moves slightly up when I move it left or right, but the piece only seems to start to move up when I move it right

3. What solutions have you tried so far?
   idk where to start cause it should work, as well as the piece only starts to move up if I move it right

here is a video of what I’m talking about:
robloxapp-20230508-1609084.wmv (763.2 KB)

Just note that the move right script is basically the same but instead is -8 not +8

local currentPiece = workspace.CurrentPiece:GetChildren()[1]

script.Parent.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
	local currentPieceX = currentPiece:GetPivot().X
	local currentPieceY = currentPiece:GetPivot().Y
	local currentPieceZ = currentPiece:GetPivot().Z
	
	currentPiece:MoveTo(Vector3.new(
		currentPieceX + 8,
		currentPieceY,
		currentPieceZ
	))
	
	print("moved left")
end)

any help or explanation of what’s going on is super helpful and meaningful to me. And I hope I’m not asking too much or that the fix is a lot of work. Lol

-Brant

[Kanglim12 (Capybara)]

I’m sorry that im not a pro scripter but did u try PivotTo()?

	currentPiece:PivotTo(CFrame.new(
		currentPieceX + 8,
		currentPieceY,
		currentPieceZ
	))

[3YbuKtOp (Alex_Kornilov)]

As @Kanglim12 already said, you need to use PivotTo. Here is an example:

local currentPiece = workspace.CurrentPiece:GetChildren()[1]

script.Parent.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
	currentPiece:PivotTo(CFrame.new(currentPiece:GetPivot().Position+Vector3.new(8,0,0))) --move 8 in x
	print("moved left")
end)

[GTX_3]

Your issue may be caused by floating-point inaccuracies or other factors affecting the position of the piece. To fix this issue, you can create a new function that moves the piece only along the X-axis while maintaining its Y and Z positions.

Here is my version of the script:

local function movePieceX(deltaX)
    local currentPiece = workspace.CurrentPiece:GetChildren()[1]
    local currentPosition = currentPiece:GetPivot()
    local newPosition = currentPosition + Vector3.new(deltaX, 0, 0)
    currentPiece:MoveTo(newPosition)
end

script.Parent.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
    movePieceX(8)
    print("moved left")
end)

Now, if you need to move the piece to the right, you can call the movePieceX() function with a negative value:

movePieceX(-8) -- Moves the piece to the right

If that did not work you can use the PivotTo function

local function movePieceX(deltaX)
    local currentPiece = workspace.CurrentPiece:GetChildren()[1]
    local currentPosition = currentPiece:GetPivot()
    local newPosition = currentPosition + Vector3.new(deltaX, 0, 0)
    currentPiece:PivotTo(newPosition)
end

script.Parent.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
    movePieceX(8)
    print("moved left")
end)

[BrantGamer (BigMilkshakeMonster)]

Yayyy it works, thank you so much. I tried @Kanglim12 solution and it gave me an error about casting a vector3 onto a coordinate frame. but then I tried yours and now it works.

Thank you so much