lookAt and PivotTo not actually facing player

[fierce rose]

When im running this script, it seems to make the face of the head whatever was already facing the player when they spawned in, rather than the actual face of it facing the player at all times.

This script is going to handle multiple head trackings, so that's why it is setup like this.

Anybody know a fix for this?

local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local character = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local pHead = character:WaitForChild("Head")

----------- MAIN LOOP -------------

game:GetService("RunService").RenderStepped:Connect(function()
    local targetPos = pHead.Position
    
-- SHADOW FREDDY --

    local shadowFreddy = workspace.Map.Map:WaitForChild("shadowFreddyPAS")
    
    local sFHead = shadowFreddy.up:WaitForChild("head")
    local sFHeadPivot = sFHead:GetPivot()
    local sFHeadPos = sFHeadPivot.Position
    local sFFollow = CFrame.lookAt(sFHeadPos, targetPos, Vector3.new(0,1,0))
    sFHead:PivotTo(sFFollow)
    
    
end)

[lethal compass]

From a quick read the code itself looks fine, do you have anything else that modifies any part of freddy at any point?

[fierce rose]

Well, in the video you can see him appear, but im not sure if it would affect anything like that, as its only changing the transparency of him, he is still there an in action even when not visible.

-- Managing the fading in and out --

local shadowFreddy = workspace.Map.Map.shadowFreddyPAS
local SFPrimary = shadowFreddy:WaitForChild("broworkpls")

local tweenService = game:GetService("TweenService")

local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer

---- LOOP :P -----------

game:GetService("RunService").RenderStepped:Connect(function()
    local character = player.Character
    local hrp = character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")

    local dist = (SFPrimary.Position - hrp.Position).Magnitude
    if dist > 25 then
        for _, parts in ipairs(shadowFreddy:GetDescendants()) do
            if parts:IsA("BasePart") then
                tweenService:Create(parts, TweenInfo.new(.5), {Transparency = 1}):Play()
            end
        end
    else
        for _, parts in ipairs(shadowFreddy:GetDescendants()) do
            if parts:IsA("BasePart") then
                tweenService:Create(parts, TweenInfo.new(.5), {Transparency = 0}):Play()

            end
        end
    end
end)

This is the script that manages that

[lethal compass]

Hmm yeah, that code doesn't seem to be causing it.

Unrelated but probably undesired, that code is tweening every part every single frame instead of just when you cross the 25 stud distance boundary

[fierce rose]

oh?

[lethal compass]

In the video, when the head rotates wrong, can you send me a screenshot of a fully expanded explorer view of freddy's head?

[fierce rose]

Just like, his head model in the explorer?

[lethal compass]

Step through the code in your head — every frame its checking if your greater than or less than 25 studs away from freddy, and then playing a tween

[lethal compass]

Yes

[fierce rose]

I believe this is what you meant? Pardon my extremely messy workspace

[lethal compass]

Try setting the PrimaryPart of the head

[fierce rose]

To what? Just anything in the head?

[lethal compass]

Something that is aligned with the way the head is facing

[fierce rose]

Is that not what I want? I figured if it's not in the loop it will only check once, and then wont work again

[lethal compass]

That is correct, you do want to check every frame, but you only want to play a tween if the value has changed since the last time you checked it

[fierce rose]

So should I use something like a boolvalue?

[fierce rose]

Ah! It worked! I didn't even think about that. Thanks!

[lethal compass]

That might work
-# Assuming you mean use a BoolValue and listen to its Changed event. I think it would work but i'm not 100% sure if the change event would actually fire even if you assign the value that the BoolValue already contains.
It would be more efficient to remember the last value in a variable and compare it each time you check the distance
Something like this

local was_close
game:GetService("RunService").RenderStepped:Connect(function()
    local dist = -- Do calculation

    local is_close = dist > 25

    -- If the character hasn't changed from being close or far
    -- since the last frame, don't do any tweens
    if is_close == was_close then return end

    if is_close then
        for _, parts in ipairs(shadowFreddy:GetDescendants()) do
            if parts:IsA("BasePart") then
                tweenService:Create(parts, TweenInfo.new(.5), {Transparency = 1}):Play()
            end
        end
    else
        for _, parts in ipairs(shadowFreddy:GetDescendants()) do
            if parts:IsA("BasePart") then
                tweenService:Create(parts, TweenInfo.new(.5), {Transparency = 0}):Play()

            end
        end
    end
end)

And just for completness, here is the same code but cleaned up a bit

local tween_info = TweenInfo.new(.5)
local was_close
game:GetService("RunService").RenderStepped:Connect(function()
    local dist = -- Do calculation

    local is_close = dist > 25

    -- If the character hasn't changed from being close or far
    -- since the last frame, don't do any tweens
    if is_close == was_close then return end

    local transparency = if is_close then 1 else 0
    for _, part in shadowFreddy:GetDescendants() do
      if part:IsA("BasePart") then
        tweenService:Create(part, tween_info, {Transparency = transparency}):Play()
      end
  end
end)