Setting CFrame of Part while Spinning it

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#8

I don’t know if Gyazo is catching this but basically this is what it is doing:
https://gyazo.com/1dca69c1e1bf6ca516469898d3265ae2

#9

well you could try doing something like Part.Orientation = HumanoidRootPart.Orientation + Vector3.new(x, y, z) I’ll test this then edit this message if it works or not. Well the one time I tried, it didnt work, but you could definitely try doing something like that with tweening, unless you want constant spin, then you could try using constraints or align orientation, I’d recommend constraints.

#10

I’d really not want to try using Orientation or Position as I heard constantly setting that on loop is bad compared to CFrame though I may be wrong :man_shrugging:

#11

i know, thats why i said set the * CFrame.Angles() when defining the orientation. If you dont want it to spin do it like this:

local Offset = Root.CFrame * CFrame.new(0, 0, -2) * CFrame.Angles(math.rad(180), 0 0)
Part.CFrame = Part.CFrame:Lerp(Offset, 0.8)
#12

I might be sending the message across wrong but, I still want to keep it spinning however, I don’t want it to spin at uncontrollable speeds while inside the Stepped loop.

#13

Then just have a value that you set the cframe.angles to. And take that value +1 or something ever loop.

It is not the best way but it works, the best way would just be to use what i said first. But dont set the value that high.

#14

As I’ve said in the reply before, it leads to uncontrollable speeds since it is inside the loop. Setting it in a while true do loop with a wait() also doesn’t help. And I’m setting the value at 0.001 which changes nothing in its speed.

EDIT: Please read my post again, I’ve made the value 0.001, and yet it is still spinning like crazy.

#15

just make it really low then, like 0.1 or even 0.05. It is still going the same speed, it is just to fast.

i have it to 1 and it works perfectly fine https://gyazo.com/f8ddb39fa2dd2e40e72bfe3b627a4adb

#16

If possible, can you show me how you’re doing it? I’m setting it to the lowest I can while it still does this:
https://gyazo.com/9fb9b265a5a3497ccecd1316a615a2d2

#17

Why not make use of bodyforces to allow the part to spin and follow the character as well? You can update the Cframe through this as well.

#18

here is the entire code i use: lua local Part = Instance.new("Part", character) Part.Anchored = true local Root = character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart") local n = 0 while true do local Offset = Root.CFrame * CFrame.new(0, 0, -2) * CFrame.Angles(math.rad(n), 0, 0) Part.CFrame = Part.CFrame:Lerp(Offset, 0.8) n = n+1 if n == 360 then n = 0 end game:GetService("RunService").Heartbeat:Wait() end

https://gyazo.com/0af4cd58eb68e554ded9c60a6e345508

i for some reason cant make it a code block, idk why.

#19

Looking at the code, it seems as though you’re constantly adding a value of + 1 to the variable, wouldn’t that be bad as it keeps going bigger and bigger as time goes by to like 95028520528015?

@Painshinratensei, I’d rather not rely on physics and bodygyros/etc for this as I plan to use CFrames and some sine waves/etc

#20

oh, i forgot that, just make it so everytime it reaches 360 set it to 0 again

#21

It might just be me but doesn’t this seem hacky? In this post, I’m reading, it shows that it is just being multiplied to spin without having to rely on a seperate variable constantly updating alongside and setting it back? (tried it already though but didn’t work, might be because I’m doing something wrong :man_shrugging:)

#22

I think you are thinking of when setting the old cframe of the part *cframe.angles(math.rad(n), 0, 0) that would not be good. But since you are making a new cframe it should not matter.

And no, for me it is perfectly smooth

#23

I got it working with for i = 0, 359, 3 do loop

#24

I meant as in:

while true do
wait()
local NumValue = 0
NumValue = NumValue + 1
-- Using NumValue for it
-- Setting it back to 0
-- Is constantly being done, reconnected and disconnected
end

Isn’t that somewhat hacky to store a variable for that or somewhat can be bad for performance?

@coworkerplus, I’m pretty sure that will just do it once unless it is done in a loop :thinking:

#25

yeah i put it in a while true do loop so there is no wait time when the for loop ends

#26

Set local NumValue = 0 outside the loop and from what i know that should work perfectly fine, if you just remember to set it to 0 when it reaches 360.

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#27

pretty sure that just made it 100 times more complicated than it had to be, wouldn’t that loop the for loop which leads to looping the loop aka:

Loops within Loops.

@index_nil, I’ll use your method than, thank you :+1:

However, if anybody has a better way of updating the value, please reply, but I’ll mark @index_nil as solution since he helped, thank you :+1:

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