Need help with making rig face player at all times

[heromahdi (MAHDl)]

Greetings everyone, I am working on a cutscene, and I need an npc to face the player all the time. I used cframe.lookat, which worked, but It ALWAYS faces the player, so its whole body would move to face towards the player.

heres a video example:
https://gyazo.com/56b09759aacbd74b8725dac6698dfcc9

and my code is very simple:

local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local character = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local runservice = game:GetService("RunService")

local rigroot = game.Workspace:WaitForChild("Rig"):WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")

runservice.RenderStepped:Connect(function()
	rigroot.CFrame = CFrame.lookAt(rigroot.Position,character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart").Position)
end)

It’s in a local script inside starter player scripts.

what i want is for the rig face the character, but not like in the video, where it looks up. I tried using an align orientation constraint, but it didnt work out for me.

Thanks!

[YawnMcie (Yawn)]

Change the “lookAt” parameter of CFrame.lookAt so that instead of looking exactly at the player, it looks at the players’ X and Z value, while keeping it’s own Y value.

rigroot.CFrame = CFrame.lookAt(rigroot.Position, Vector3.new(character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart").Position.X, rigroot.Position.Y, character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart").Position.Z))

Would suggest making character:WaitForChild(“HumanoidRootPart”) its own variable so this line of code is easier to read though

[heromahdi (MAHDl)]

Yea i just figured it out after reading the dev docs and stuff. Your solution is exactly what i was going to do.

[heromahdi (MAHDl)]

this is what i did to protect my eyes:

runservice.RenderStepped:Connect(function()
	local rigPosition = rigroot.Position
	local characterPosition = character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart").Position

	characterPosition = Vector3.new(characterPosition.X, rigPosition.Y, characterPosition.Z)

	rigroot.CFrame = CFrame.lookAt(rigPosition, characterPosition)
end)