NPC's Head follow target

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#1

So i have a npc and i want the head to look at the player, unless his behind him how could i do this?

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#2

You might wanna study some basic scriptings first before you even make a short post like this.

You could consider using CFrames to make the head look at the player, and about the exception part, you have to use Vector:Dot() function in order to check how much are the head and the player’s head looking at the same direction, then use your logic to achieve your goal.

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#3

You could make a part and if the player is touching it make the head rotate where the player is at and make that part in front of the npc if you want it not to look behind it

#4

I tried but this is the result i get

local Character = script.Parent
local Hitbox = Character.Head

local RayCastP = RaycastParams.new();
RayCastP.FilterType = Enum.RaycastFilterType.Blacklist

local Closet_HeadFollow = function()
	for _, Player in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
		if Player.Character then
			if Player:DistanceFromCharacter(Hitbox.Position) < 100 then 
				Character.Head.CFrame = CFrame.new(Character.Head.Position, Player.Character.HumanoidRootPart.Position)
			end
		end
	end
end
while task.wait() do
	Closet_HeadFollow()
end

#5

Maybe just use some mathematics to calculate the distance instead of using a function?

#6

i want the head to move not the whole body

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#7

Could you try to set the head’s CFrame to something else just so to make sure the whole body doesn’t get teleported when doing that?

Let me know if the whole body still teleports or affected by it.

#8


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#9 
function findHead(pos)
	local torso = nil
	local dist = 200
	local child = workspace:children()
	for i=1, #child do
		if child[i].className == "Model" then
			local h = child[i]:findFirstChild("Humanoid")
			if h ~= nil then
				local check = child[i]:findFirstChild("UpperTorso")
				if check ~= nil then
					if (check.Position - pos).magnitude < dist then
						torso = check
						dist = (check.Position - pos).magnitude
					end
				end
			end
		end
	end
	return torso
end


while true do
	wait()
	local torso = findHead(script.Parent.Position)
	if torso ~= nil then
		script.Parent.CFrame = CFrame.new(script.Parent.Position, torso.Position)
	end
end

or

function findHead(pos)
	local head = nil
	local dist = 200
	local child = workspace:children()
	for i=1, #child do
		if child[i].className == "Model" then
			local h = child[i]:findFirstChild("Humanoid")
			if h ~= nil then
				local check = child[i]:findFirstChild("Torso")
				if check ~= nil then
					if (check.Position - pos).magnitude < dist then
						head = check
						dist = (check.Position - pos).magnitude
					end
				end
			end
		end
	end
	return head
end

while true do
	wait()
	local head = findHead()(script.Parent.Position)
	if head ~= nil then
		script.Parent.CFrame = CFrame.new(script.Parent.Position, head.Position)
	end
end