Visualize Selection CFrame

Hey everyone, I just made a super lightweight plugin that helps you see the LookVector, RightVector, and UpVector of any moveable instance. (0,0,-1), (1,0,0), (0,1,0). Previously you might have been creating a temporary decal to see which face is Front, but that got harder to do now if you also need to know a pivots Front direction.

It works right when its installed with no extra work. All it does is make the cone parts of the default roblox move handles different colors. Because of this, it automatically works with pivots and attachments. Just make sure your in local space (Ctrl + L).


As you can see, the ones with a more unsaturated color are the marked axis of interest.

This is especially useful when your code works with CFrames. There are other attempts at this but they are more heavy, this is all I need.

Heres the plugin: https://create.roblox.com/marketplace/asset/13865515817/Show-CFrame-Axis
And heres the github: GitHub - vijet1/rbx_cf_visual: Visualizes the CFrame of a selected moveable object in roblox.

Hope it saves you some time!

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One Thing I would like you to add is the ability to toggle the visualization, Not everyone wants it to be permanent, or if you want to hide it and keep the plugin, I like that you made a repo but I will work on a pull request about that soon

also I would recommend you with a screenshot

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Nice idea for a plugin! May you show a video or screenshot of this in action?

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You can already find the face orientation by opening the context menu by right-clicking on a part and selecting the Show Orientation Indicator. It shows the look vector and up vector and just assume the right and left vectors based on the front.

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Thats actually very nice to know, thank you, and had I known sooner I wouldn’t have made this plugin lol. But, I am glad I did not know sooner, because this plugin, for me, is far better at achieving what I was looking for.