Need help animating Viewportframes better

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#1

yooo, could someone help me on how to make my viewportframe better because this is my code right now (I wan’t to animate it)

local viewPortFrame = script.Parent:FindFirstChild("ViewportFrame")
local char = game.Workspace.ViewPortChars[script.Parent.Name]
 char.Archivable = true

 for i, ModelOrCam in pairs(viewPortFrame:GetChildren()) do
     if ModelOrCam:IsA("Model") or ModelOrCam:IsA("Camera") then
         ModelOrCam:Destroy()
     end
 end

 local newCamera = Instance.new("Camera")
 newCamera.Parent = viewPortFrame
 viewPortFrame.CurrentCamera = newCamera

 local clonedChar
 game:GetService("RunService").RenderStepped:Connect(function()
     if clonedChar then clonedChar:Destroy() end
     clonedChar = char:Clone()

     local hrp = clonedChar:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")

     newCamera.CFrame = CFrame.new(hrp.Position + (hrp.CFrame.LookVector * 2.5) + Vector3.new(0,1,0) + (hrp.CFrame.RightVector * 0), hrp.Position) 
 
     clonedChar.Parent = viewPortFrame
end)

but because I cloning it all the time and spawning it in again its lagging way to much but idk how to make it better. could anyone help me?

#2

You just answered your own question. Just don’t have it clone and delete every single frame? Why not just clone it once and update the CFrame each frame?

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#3

If you try something like this it will only clone it if it doesn’t already exist

you could also change clonedChar:WaitForChild(“HumanoidRootPart”) to char:WaitForChild(“HumanoidRootPart”) if you needed to update the characters base cframe in the viewport for some reason – right now it doesn’t look like you need that from your cam positioning though

clonedChar = clonedChar or char:Clone()  -- if already exist it just sets else it will clone a new one

local hrp = clonedChar:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart") 

newCamera.CFrame = CFrame.new(hrp.Position + (hrp.CFrame.LookVector * 2.5) + Vector3.new(0,1,0) + (hrp.CFrame.RightVector * 0), hrp.Position) 

clonedChar.Parent = viewPortFrame
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