Pointing the character at the mouse

[FroDev1002 (FroDev)]

Sounds simple enough right? RIGHT???
Wellllll
IM GOING INSANE OVER HERE!!!
Basically I want to point the players character at the mouse, which is pretty obvious on how to do:

root.CFrame = CFrame.new(root.Position,targetPo)

Easy peasy.
Except this isnt what I want.
See I need to point the character at the mouse on like all axis, so if the player looks up, their characters going to point, well UP.
Only problem with this is when rotation the root it messes with it, and uh wellll

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So I thought I’d just use the motor6D in the root to change where it faces like so:

RootMotor.C1 = CFrame.new(root.Position,targetPo)

and uh that didnt work:

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So like what can I do? I’ve looked at a lot of posts, but they all just seem to do the first thing I did.
So thanks~
~ Frodev

[dthecoolest]

Like this?

Bending player torso on an R6 rig

Yeah it’s more difficult for R6 like @Chark_Proto said. However it’s still possible, The issue is changing the rotation Torso motor changes the rotation of the legs. However, to counteract this I have added an inverse rotation so it works. The script I adapted is from @CleverSource in this post, a lot of things needed to be changed as well such as the CFrame order with rotation * OriginalC0 in order to apply the rotation in the correct direction. [R6 Head and Torso Look at mouse] …

[FroDev1002 (FroDev)]

Yeah kind of, except like I want to rotate the whole character

[cardboardthethird (unfunnily)]

maybe try allign orientation? (max char)

[StylishEyepatch (Stylish)]

you would want to lock the y axis of the targetPo

example:

root.CFrame = CFrame.new(root.Position,Vector3.new(targetPo.X, root.Position.Y, targetPo.Z))

[FroDev1002 (FroDev)]

this works, except it doesnt, I need it to point entirely at the camera, so this wouldnt work sadly