how to make part rotate towards player head always?

[snow crag]

in some horror games there are sprites that always face towards the players screen and i was wondering how to replicate that!!

i have this code but it doesn't rotate my follower part

[somber island]

"head" -> "Head" in line 7

[viral widget]

use a billboardgui

[snow crag]

this won’t achieve the effect I want

[viral widget]

sure it will, billboardgui has property to always face the camera, and you want sprites right? well a sprite is just an image, so you can use imagelabel

[viral widget]

if you insist on doing this still though, it should be .lookAt the camera not the character's head

but if it is moving and rotating on the server then the server will override

so you can see how a billboardgui simply solves a bunch of problems

[snow crag]

Billboardgui keeps the size consistent even with distance away from it

[viral widget]

use scale instead of offset

or the other way around i can never remember with the billboardgui

[snow crag]

billboard GUI all keeps the texture always facing directly towards the player

I only want horizontal rotation

not vertical

[viral widget]

the camera, not the player

but i think i see where you're going with it

[snow crag]

Nice catch but does not fix

[viral widget]

you can have the localscript create the sprite part on the client coz otherwise it is subject to this problem, and just do that

don't want both server and client trying to rotate the part at the same time

[snow crag]

true

this is the effect I want

[viral widget]

i can't view these coz bandwidth. i'm assuming you're talking about those games where a giant image of a meme chases you

[snow crag]

its lookman from doors

[heady yoke]

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[snow crag]

doors has a lot of examples of this

with rush, eyes,

[snow crag]

if you mean nextbots yes

that is the same effect

since those also dont rotate vertically

[viral widget]

nextbot is just an npc module

its name comes from gmod nextbot

but they are unrelated

[viral widget]

you can do this in roblox with regular humanoids since those don't pitch or roll either

depends exactly what you're after

[snow crag]

but you are right that the rotation should stay clientsided

but i dont know how to do that

[viral widget]

do this on a part created in a localscript instead of the part the server is controlling

also you forgot task.wait in that loop

[snow crag]

i still dont know how to do that LOL

im new to scripting like this is the third one i've ever written

[viral widget]

https://create.roblox.com/docs/tutorials/fundamentals/coding-1/coding-fundamentals

[snow crag]

it shouldn't be this hard to just make something face the player though

but i've learned things are aways more complicated than they look

i thought a 2d sprite facing the player was commonplace

[viral widget]

no, scripters are just clever and can figure out ways to do things

we make it look easy

[viral widget]

this is technique you'd probably use, it will make the sprite face whoever the local player is.

[viral widget]

one more thing to note, localscripts dont run in workspace so that's probably another problem you're having

[viral widget]

if it did run, this script would crash studio

the while true do ... end without a yield (task.wait or similar) crashes studio, and the roblox player, if it runs.

[snow crag]

you wont believe it

i moved it into startercharacterscripts and it started working

although it still factors in vertical rotation so i need to figure out how to stop that

[viral widget]

you need to make the lookat position have the same y value as the origin

lookat(origin, vector3.new(target.x, origin.y, target.z))

there's obviously other ways but this is usually the most convenient way to do it

[snow crag]

yea i dont know how to put what you just gave me into the script

like do i put that inside of it under it or

oh this works

thanks so much!!

this was just a test to see how to get the texture to face the player for future reference so thank you for helping me get it working

[snow crag]

UNSOLVED

ok @viral widget there's been another problem that keeps popping up

every time i publish this script to roblox this error occurs

i have to weirdly retype the variable and it starts working again

but once i publish it breaks again

[exotic crescent]

Do wait for child evil follower

:WaitForChild(“Evil_Follower,15)

This will wait 15 seconds and if it doesn’t exist in that time it won’t work

[snow crag]

worked, tysm!!

[heady yoke]

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[snow crag]

nope

doesn't work on mobile

or on pc

just doesnt work in game

only in studio

ehh i'll figure this out later

its most likely because evil_follower is in the workspace

[exotic crescent]

Make sure your publishing and confirming your drafts

Make sure the script is actually getting published

Also if it’s not anchored in workspace it won’t exist, use a script to place it from server storage

The reason it would only work in studio is because it loads your character faster so the look at keeps it from falling through the void destroying it

[snow crag]

the evilfollower IS anchored and does appear in game runs

but it does not rotate

[snow crag]

what's a draft

wait it works now/?!?

i think??

dont think i even changed anything

oh its random

it seems like 50/50 chance

im kinda looking to make it 100/0 chance

i removed the first part and now it only waits for the child Evil_Follower

this seems to have fixed it