How can I make a part rotate to face the player only on its Y axis?

Asked Sep 12, 2016416 views1 answers

How can I make a part rotate to face the player only on its Y axis? I know there are ways to make a part rotate to face a player, but I am not quite sure how to limit it to only the Y rotation axis.

I could set it manually with CFrame, but then I would have to figure out the math on how to make the object face the player. Any ideas?

AnonymousSep 12, 2016

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✓ Accepted answer

Trigonometry to the rescue!

local delta = part.Position - character.Torso.Position
local angleY = math.arctan2(delta.z, delta.x)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangent

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atan2

AnonymousSep 12, 2016Edited Sep 12, 2016Permalink

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Thanks, I made a few changes and implemented it and it works! But, how would I go about making it look at the camera? I have tried many variations involving the CurrentCamera's CFrame.p, but its producing a weird effect.

AnonymousSep 13, 2016#

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