How would I make an anchored part point in the same direction as the camera? And there are a few other topics like this but the are talking about how to make a part point where the camera is looking, if that makes sense.
So basically I want a part to have the same exact orientation as the camera.
You can get the camera orientation using workspace.CurrentCamera.CFrame:ToEulerAnglesXYZ()
Hmm… How would I put a parts rotation to this?
local RunService = game:GetService("RunService")
RunService.Heartbeat:Connect(function()
Part.Orientation = workspace.CurrentCamera.CFrame:ToEulerAnglesXYZ()
end)
part.CFrame = Camera.CFrame - Camera.CFrame.Position + part.Position;
Or, if you want to keep it at it’s current position and make it look at the camera you can do
part.CFrame = CFrame.LookAt(part.Position, Camera.CFrame.Position)
And finally to keep the cameras exact position and orientation you can just use part.CFrame = Camera.CFrame
Keep in mind if you want it to constantly update you’d need to throw it in a loop.
However, let’s say the camera is an arrow pointing at some position in world space, and you want your part to look at that, you can use the second technique I mentioned but replace the camera’s position with the position of a Ray’s result that is cast from the center of the camera in the direction of the camera. Just make sure to account for cases where you don’t hit anything.
thank you so much, it works just as I wanted.
No problem! For further reading, take a look at
https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/datatype/CFrame
and
It took me a while to get a good understanding of CFrames so don’t fret if you struggle at first. Good luck!
CFrame.Rotation is a thing. I keep seeing people subtracting cframe by its own position. I mean shouldn’t it autocomplete and show Rotation?
Ah, that would be better to use. Wasn’t aware CFrame.Rotation was exactly the same, thought it was just an alternative to :ToOrientation()