How can I detect if a player is looking at something?

[lost urchin]

I've messed around with the Gaze circuits, but nothing seems to work.

[round cliff]

Looking directly at something or in the direction

[lost urchin]

In the direction

[round cliff]

Use Vector3 Dot

Put in the Vector3 of the object - head position in Lhs, and your head forward vector in Rhs, the float output will be -1 to 1 and the closer it is to I think 1 the closer you are to looking at the object

[lost urchin]

Wait I'm confused

What do I do with the Result?

[round cliff]

You test if it’s greater than a number depending on how sensitive you want it to be

[lost urchin]

So when I look at the object the result is around 2.5

[round cliff]

Can you send a picture if possible I wanna see your setup

[lost urchin]

I dont have much rn but sure

Mediocre quality

[round cliff]

It’s good quality can you look more left though I want to see the circuits for the Lhs

[lost urchin]

Its just local player

I deleted my old circuits

[round cliff]

Yeah you gotta make it object position - head position = Lhs

[lost urchin]

What do you mean by this

[round cliff]

Object Position - Head Position = Vector3

[slender plume]

@lost urchin Hes saying this:

1. Get a Subtract Chip
2. Wire the Get Position of you’re object to the top port of the Subtract
3. Wire the Head Position of the player to the bottom Subtract Chip Port.

Tbh the way he told you to do this whole system I would not recommend, also idk why ppl on these channels don’t explain how to do stuff understandingly💀

[lost urchin]

Thanks

[slender plume]

You’re welcome🤙

[round cliff]

How would you recommend it, I actually wanna know because I’m not extremely knowledgeable with this kind of stuff

[jaunty sage]

@round cliff @slender plume @lost urchin

Just a note for the most accurate method:

• Dont use head position, use Get Local Camera Position, which is the actual position of the players camera
• Dont use head forward, use Get Local Camera Forward

lhs/rhs in this case doesnt matter, what does matter is the subtraction order

Object Position - Get Local Camera Position = The direction from the players camera to the object, with a magnitude of the distance
Use Vector3 Normalize to set the magnitude of this vector to 1

Now, using Vector3 Dot, dot this normalized vector you just created by Get Local Camera Forward. This will return a number where -1 is looking directly away, 0 is directly perpendicular, and 1 is directly at. Use the chip Acos to turn this [-1,1] range into a [180,0] angle. This angle will be much easier to work with, now you can just use Less Than on the angle to see if the look angle is less than X degrees

Alternatively, you could check if the dot product result is greater than Cos(Angle), which is essentially the same thing

[round cliff]

Is it Get Local Camera Position - Object Position? I thought itd be the other way around

[jaunty sage]

A - B = B to A, you want the direction from Camera to Object, not Object to Camera

oh wait

i said object to camera

i literally double checked lmao

fixed

[round cliff]

Oh ok 👌

[jaunty sage]

always triple check

[lost urchin]

Thank you all for the help

I’m gonna close this now

I got it working

[round cliff]

Just mark as answered so other people can see it

[lost urchin]

Alright

[slender plume]

I didn’t tell the guy how to make the system I just restated how the other dude told him how to

[jaunty sage]

which didn't include normalizing, so I fixed it

[slender plume]

Alr but u included me in the “normalizing”

[round cliff]

Hey I was gonna include that but I didn’t get a response so I didn’t get to that part

[dark otter]

That’s just a Cryptic thing lol