Viewportframe showing tool at wrong angle

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#1

I am new to using viewportframes and I am having issues displaying objects. I am making an inventory system and I want to display objects in each slot that the object is placed in. When I place the tool in the viewportframe in studio, it works fine. But when I play the game and place the object in the viewportframe, it shows it at a different angle. How do I fix this? I am placing the item in the viewportframe on the serverside btw.

Video displaying the problem:

Serverscript:

local inventoryFolder = player.Inventory
	local mainSlotsFolder = inventoryFolder.MainSlots
	local hotSlotsFolder = inventoryFolder.HotSlots
	
	local gui = player.PlayerGui.InventoryUI
	local mainframe = gui.MainFrame
	local inventoryFrame = mainframe.Inventory
	local invslotframe = inventoryFrame.SlotFrame
	local invhotframe = inventoryFrame.HotbarFrame
	
	local slot_name
	
	if player.Character then
		
		local function createToolPreview(ITEM_TOOl,slotname)
			if not invslotframe:FindFirstChild(slotname).Item:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("Tool") then
				local tool = ITEM_TOOl:Clone()
				tool.PrimaryPart.Anchored = true
				tool:SetPrimaryPartCFrame(CFrame.new(0,0,0)*CFrame.Angles(0,45,90))
				tool.Parent = invslotframe:FindFirstChild(slotname).Item
			end
		end
		
		local function placeinslot(slotname)
			local slot = mainSlotsFolder:FindFirstChild(slotname)
			if not slot:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("Tool") then
				item.Parent = slot
				slot_name = slotname
			elseif slot:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("Tool").ToolSettings.Type.Value == "Resource" and slot:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("Tool").Name == item.Name then
				local tool = slot:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("Tool")
				local toolamount = tool.ToolSettings.Amount
				toolamount.Value += 1
				item:Destroy()
			end
		end
		
		placeinslot("Slot15")
		placeinslot("Slot14")
		placeinslot("Slot13")
		placeinslot("Slot12")
		placeinslot("Slot11")
		placeinslot("Slot10")
		placeinslot("Slot9")
		placeinslot("Slot8")
		placeinslot("Slot7")
		placeinslot("Slot6")
		placeinslot("Slot5")
		placeinslot("Slot4")
		placeinslot("Slot3")
		placeinslot("Slot2")
		placeinslot("Slot1")
		
		createToolPreview(item,slot_name)
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#3

have you tried putting the item in the slot through a local script?

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#4

Yes I have tried and it had the same result or didn’t show up at all.

#5

try instead of putting the clone of the object in the frame, just put the item itself?

#6

I am keeping track of the original item in a folder under the player for the inventory system, which is why I have to create a clone of the object and put it under the viewport frame. I don’t think using the original item would make a difference anyway.

#7

check the pivot of the tool, maybe thats the problem

#8

Perhaps you could simply use a fixed cframe after cloning the object into the preview (and for different item types have different cframe values perhaps)

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#9

I tried not setting a CFrame and put the object at the center of the world and the preview looks fine. Looks like the problem may be with the CFrame. I’ll look into the pivot.

#10

Looks like the problem was the :SetPrimaryPartCFrame() line. It was giving me weird angles on the tool because I wasn’t using math.rad(). I also switch over from making the preview on the server side to client side(that shouldn’t change anything but I did it anyway).

Fixed line of code:

tool:SetPrimaryPartCFrame(CFrame.new(0,0,0)*CFrame.Angles(math.rad(0),math.rad(45),math.rad(90)))
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