Help me make these footsteps align with the ground please

[faint blade]

i have never used alignorientation (instance) EVER and im not sure if there is any other way, any help is appreciated!!!

[proud delta]

that is called procedural animations btw, and I suck at it so I won't be able to help srry

[shadow basin]

This might help: https://youtu.be/DPpAsjUr278?si=PQZkHyvUcCup_FVx
It doesn't go very deep into scripting but it does show you how you could set up a model with ik controls (The thing you use for procedural animations).

And this tutorial you might just want to watch to understand IK Controls a little better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWRlgOw8fW4&t=179s

[faint blade]

no no, i just want the footstep parts to be aligned with the ground

[shadow basin]

Yeah that is what you use IK Controls for

[faint blade]

rotation-wise?

[shadow basin]

Or Ig if you don't want it to be that precise you could probably also rotate the character

[faint blade]

no no i mean the footstep parts, not the actual legs

[shadow basin]

So do you want the whole model to be rotated or just the legs?

[faint blade]

no no

watch the video

the footstep parts

the trail

[final jetty]

local characterPosition = humanoidRootPart.Position

            local raycastParams = RaycastParams.new()
            raycastParams.FilterDescendantsInstances = {character, footstepPart}
            raycastParams.FilterType = Enum.RaycastFilterType.Exclude

            local rayOrigin = characterPosition - Vector3.new(0, 1, 0)
            local rayDirection = Vector3.new(0, -100, 0)

            local raycastResult = workspace:Raycast(rayOrigin, rayDirection, raycastParams)

            if raycastResult then
                local groundY = raycastResult.Position.Y
                local feetY = characterPosition.Y - 2.8

                local finalY = math.min(groundY, feetY)
                local finalPosition = Vector3.new(characterPosition.X, finalY, characterPosition.Z)

                local surfaceNormal = raycastResult.Normal
                local upVector = Vector3.new(0, 1, 0)

                local rightVector = upVector:Cross(surfaceNormal)
                if rightVector.Magnitude < 0.001 then
                    rightVector = Vector3.new(1, 0, 0)
                else
                    rightVector = rightVector.Unit
                end
                local backVector = surfaceNormal:Cross(rightVector).Unit

                footstepPart.CFrame = CFrame.fromMatrix(
                    finalPosition,
                    rightVector,
                    surfaceNormal,
                    -backVector
                )
            else

                local fallbackPosition = Vector3.new(characterPosition.X, characterPosition.Y - 3, characterPosition.Z)
                footstepPart.CFrame = CFrame.new(fallbackPosition)
            end

simple raycast to align it with the surface

obviously tweak it to how your game is but thats really all you need

this was my use case

[dull creek]

Thank you for circling it and adding a here text

[fathom abyss]

ooh you're talking about the footprints behind the character, not the character's legs (which would probably need IKControl). you'll need to use a raycast to get the surface normal from where the footprint was placed. it won't be perfect (e.g literal edge cases when its too close to an edge), but it should be good enough

[fathom abyss]

a bit like your selection circle 👍

[proud delta]

finalY he sent the script

[final jetty]

he didnt lol thats the one i wrote if he changes it a little bit hell get the effect he wants

[faint blade]

I don’t really need to send a script I just needed to find a solution

just needed guidance