use a weapon and a showimg statement with an index less the 200, while setting the player gani to only show the head. Should work relatively well
and I did something like this a while back so I'll show a player direction formula with you that I nutted out while falling asleep in my maths lecture:
(int((angle+(pi*.25))/(pi*.5))+3)%4
That should work logic wise, no guarantees it'll definately work though