How to check if player looks at an object

[digital merlin]

As title says, how to do it? I tried doing everything raycast, worldtoview point etc but nothing worked.
I dont want full script, I just want someone to fully explain me it

[little mauve]

In a local script you can use the player:getmouse() and you can use it to get the pos of the mouse In workspace I think

[digital merlin]

well it only gets mouse, i want actual player's view

[little mauve]

Is the game first person?

[digital merlin]

no

[little mauve]

ok so you want what the camera is looking at?

[digital merlin]

what player is looking at

like is he faced forward the object

[little mauve]

isnt that what i said?

[digital merlin]

well, by camera i thought the whole camera

like you know that shows everything around you

because camera can be faced to an object but player not

and i dont want that

[little mauve]

ok

@digital merlin I made a script and it work but I didn't label what it does yet + it a short script

[digital merlin]

show it, i will try in thing i want to make

[little mauve]

im labeling it

[digital merlin]

al

[little mauve]

put in StarterCharacterScripts and in a LocalScript

local Player = game:GetService("Players")
local PlayerChar = script.Parent
local Camera = workspace.CurrentCamera

local CamPartHelp = Instance.new("Part")--[[I madee apart bc i cant get the Position of camera]]
CamPartHelp.Size = Vector3.new(0.1,0.1,0.1)--[[I size it bc why not]]

game:GetService("RunService").Stepped:Connect(function()
    
    CamPartHelp.CFrame = Camera.CFrame
    local Org = CamPartHelp.Position
    local Dir = (PlayerChar:FindFirstChild("Head").Position - Org).Unit * 50 --<higher number make the range more far
    local ray = Ray.new(Org,Dir)
    
    local hit--[[what it hit]], pos--[[Position of the place it hit]] = workspace:findPartOnRay(ray--[[The raycast]],PlayerChar--[[Ignore the player character]])
    
    if hit then
        print("I see ".. hit.Name)
    end
    
end)

[little mauve]

do you understand the script?

[digital merlin]

well, what is camparthelp for?

[little mauve]

i only make that part bc i dont think i can get position for the camera like i can only get the camera Cframe so i make the part get the camera cframe then turn the cframe into a position

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[little mauve]

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[digital merlin]

oh alr

[digital merlin]

works great just one problem, when i look straight, it detects baseplate is there a way to make it not happen?

[little mauve]

idk I'm not too great at bug fixing as all my script usually work perfectly

[digital merlin]

alr

[little mauve]

ima check if ik a way to fix it

[little mauve]

i dont think you were looking straight bc when i look straight it didnt happened

[little mauve]

Weird it didn't happen to me when I was testing

[digital merlin]

weird

[gentle galleon]

make dir "Camera.CFrame.LookVector * 50" instead

also delete the camparthelp thing you do "Camera.CFrame.Position" to get the camera position

@digital merlin

[digital merlin]

thanks it is working now

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[gentle galleon]

coems 🤑

[digital merlin]

coems 🤑

[cosmic whale]

you can use raycast in order to help for this

oh sorry