Currently I’m trying to make a dodge roll for my game, and I want to make it look like this: (AutoRotate was turned on to demonstrate this better)
But I ran into several issues when trying to replicate that without AutoRotate turned on.
I have tried to figure this out on my own, but it seems to be the script that makes the player face the mouse being the problem, because even with an if statement to turn off letting the player face the mouse, the player faces the wrong direction.
So how can I make this (the script that makes the player face the mouse) be toggled and allow the player to face the direction they’re moving in?
I think the solution is figuring out what direction they are moving when they press the roll button, and then setting the cframe to look the direction they are rolling? I am not sure how you would get the direction they are rolling though… if your game is 100% pc and they need to use wasd to move, you could check inputs ig? how are you making the character roll in the direction they are moving? that could be used to set the lookdirection, and one possible solution is to keep track of last frames position and get the difference between the vectors and set lookdirection as current position + -difference.
You’d preferably make the player face the mouse, not the walkdirection. To get the rotation, we need to calculate the angle of alpha. Assuming the camera does not change rotation, this is how:
Get the character’s location on the screen [cPos : Vector2].
Get the mouse’s location on the screen [mPos : Vector2].
Get the vector from cPos to mPos [v = mPos-cPos]
Get the angle between the screen’s upvector (0,1) and v.
how? Using math.atan2 of v.X and -v.Y (negative v.Y because v.Y goes from top to bottom of screen). We also apply a 90deg rotation
Apply the rotation to the characters’s y axis.
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local GuiService = game:GetService("GuiService")
local RunService = game:GetService("RunService")
local player = Players.LocalPlayer
local mouse = player:GetMouse()
local camera = workspace.CurrentCamera
local guiInset = GuiService:GetGuiInset()
local function setupTopDownCamera()
local humanoidRootPart = player.Character:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart")
camera.CameraType = Enum.CameraType.Scriptable
camera.CFrame = CFrame.new(humanoidRootPart.Position + Vector3.new(0, 50, 0), humanoidRootPart.Position)
end
local function faceMouse(character)
local humanoidRootPart = character:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart")
-- Get character position on screen
local camera = workspace.CurrentCamera
local cPos = camera:WorldToScreenPoint(humanoidRootPart.Position)
local mPos = Vector2.new(mouse.X - guiInset.X, mouse.Y - guiInset.Y)
-- Calculate vector from character to mouse
local v = mPos - Vector2.new(cPos.X, cPos.Y)
-- Calculate angle between up vector (0, 1) and v
local angle = math.atan2(v.X, -v.Y) + math.pi / 2-- atan2 returns the angle in radians. Plus math.pi/2 because 90deg offset
-- Apply rotation to character's Y axis
local newCFrame = CFrame.new(humanoidRootPart.Position) * CFrame.Angles(0, -angle, 0)
humanoidRootPart.CFrame = newCFrame
end
-- Connect to RenderStepped to update the character's facing direction
RunService.RenderStepped:Connect(function()
local character = player.Character
if character and character:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart") then
faceMouse(character)
setupTopDownCamera()
end
end)
local lastLook = Vector3.zAxis
RS.RenderStepped:Connect(function()
local dir = HRP.AssemblyLinearVelocity
if dir.Magnitude > 0 then
dir = dir.Unit
lastLook = dir
else
dir = lastLook
end
local RootPos = HRP.Position
HRP.CFrame = CFrame.LookAlong(RootPos, dir, Vector3.yAxis)
end)
