So to start off, my game uses object movement mechanics, very similar to those in this video:
Now, I’m currently using CFrame, but that makes object movement look pretty choppy. Versus in the video, it’s buttery smooth probably due to it being grid-based entirely. (mine isn’t)
With that said, I took a look at welds. They worked fantastic. I’d weld the core part of a game object to the player using like a WeldConstraint, and from there the object would move with the player seamlessly.
However, the caveat was sometimes as the player was moving this object, the object’s orientation would change slightly, and I can’t have that happen at all. It causes weird collision problems…
Is there any way I could attack the problem so I can keep using welds, but have it so the object’s orientation never changes? I’d be willing to use a hacky solution too, I’ve literally tried everything in the book, and nothing worked for my use case.
Not entirely sure I know which feature you’re referencing from that hour long video… If all you want is parts (or models) to maintain a relative offset from the character model, you basically have two choices:
Begin with a root part of the character. Modify your character control system such that this root part’s rotation will always be aligned with the world axis. Then you can simply use a Weld or Motor6D (different than WeldConstraint) changing the C0 and/or C1 property of the weld or motor to maintain offset from the character.
You can update the CFrame of the attached part or Model.PrimaryPart within a function bound to the render frame using RunService:BindToRenderStep(). Using this strategy you wouldn’t need to worry about maintaining the character’s root part orientation as you could simply negate rotation in the offset calculation:
attachedPart.CFrame = rootPartCFrame + Vector3.new(x,y,z) --change to whatever offset you'd like
I feel like it’d probably result in the same problem though, I will try it when I get the chance.
I was referring to the general object movement mechanics in the video, when the player goes to push any object, it’s very smooth and seamless.
It’s a very weird problem. I weld the object to the player if its in his path, and sometimes that object will rotate slightly (as shown in the Orientation property) and this screws everything up. I change the C1 property of another joint in I believe the HumanoidRootPart to rotate the player model, and with that taken into account before I weld an object to the player, I make sure they’re not currently turning/rotating, and if they do at any point turn/rotate, I disconnect any existing game object from the player.
And with all that said, it still rotates. I really don’t get it.
