Servo motors follow mouse

[bensinsaus2 (Ben)]

1. What do you want to achieve? Keep it simple and clear!
   How would I make 2 servo motors make this turret thing point at somewhere like my mouse?

[azqjanna]

Turn the base by using CFrame.lookAt but ignoring the Y difference between the base and target. Then turn the top part by doing the same, except combine the X and Z difference into a radius (.Magnitude) along the -Z axis.

[bensinsaus2 (Ben)]

I’m not that good at scripting, so could you like tell me how I ignore the axis things or script it?

[dthecoolest]

Getting the angle of a part relative to another part

here is one method to do it props to @ThanksRoBama in this turret post. --Function for a hinge constraint local function calculateServoAngle(hinge : HingeConstraint, targetPosition : Vector3) local baseAttachment = hinge.Attachment0 local object_horizontal_offset = (baseAttachment.WorldCFrame):PointToObjectSpace(target.Position) local object_yaw_angle = math.atan2(object_horizontal_offset.Y, -object_horizontal_offset.Z) object_yaw_angle = math.deg(object_yaw_angle) return object_yaw_angl…

Turret DOESN'T work

I checked everything but for some reason it doesn’t work helppp No errors in the output I have 2 scripts - 1 local script in the starterplayerscripts and 1 script in the model [image] [image] local script: game:GetService("RunService").Heartbeat:Connect(function() local tank = game.Workspace:WaitForChild("tank") local gun = tank:WaitForChild("gun") local mouse = game.Players.LocalPlayer:GetMouse() local function getServoAngle(hinge, targetPosition) local baseAttachment = h…

[azqjanna]

You can smash any vector to be flat along a certain axis by doing this: flatVector = myVector - ignoreAxis * ignoreAxis:Dot(myVector) Where ignoreAxis can be any length 1 vector such as Vector3.yAxis

[bensinsaus2 (Ben)]

I don’t really understand, could you make like an example script

[azqjanna]

myVec * (Vector3.xAxis + Vector3.yAxis) : Vector flattened in Z plane
myVec - myVec:Dot(otherVec) * otherVec : Vector flattened in plane normal to otherVec (otherVec must be length 1)