Why is my character not looking at the cursor [solved]

fgfbfrj · November 10, 2021, 9:11pm

Like the title has described the problem, my character isn’t looking at the mouse position.
I used commonly used trigonometric function Atan2(), which returns me angles i need to know, but it seems like it doesn’t work. can somebody tell me what’s wrong?

The equation

	script.LookAngle.Value = math.atan2(-Input.getMousePosition().X,-Input.getMousePosition().Y) * (180/math.pi)

Module

function HotkeyModule.getMousePosition()
	return Vector2.new(Mouse.X,Mouse.Y)
end

CameraControl

Character:SetPrimaryPartCFrame(CFrame.new(HumanoidRootPart.Position) * CFrame.Angles(0,math.rad(script.Parent.InputControl.LookAngle.Value),0))

MamorruAlt · November 10, 2021, 9:29pm

try adding 90 degrees to the y axis

fgfbfrj · November 10, 2021, 9:33pm

It didn’t help

fgfbfrj · November 10, 2021, 9:36pm

Thanks for you help, i solved it myself

nuttolum · November 10, 2021, 9:45pm

tell us and future readers how you solved it

fgfbfrj · November 10, 2021, 10:44pm

Just trasnformed it into 3d vector and used the if statement to check if the Angle is smaller than zero so i can turn it back to a positive number.

VegetationBush · November 11, 2021, 3:23am

I think you got it reversed:

math.atan2(-Input.getMousePosition().X,-Input.getMousePosition().Y)

Correct version:

math.atan2(-Input.getMousePosition().Y,-Input.getMousePosition().X)

Notice it’s Y then X, not the other way around.