Better way to add a scriptable camera

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#1

I am facing an issue where when I have a script changing the workspace.CurrentCamera property to my custom camera, it gets used by the roblox’s internal PlayerModule.CameraModule core script and I have to listen to the CharacterAdded event to initialize my camera like this:

LocalPlayer.CharacterAdded:Connect(function()
	local MyCam = Instance.new("Camera")
	MyCam.CameraType = Enum.CameraType.Scriptable
	MyCam.Name = "MyCam"
	MyCam.Parent = workspace
	workspace.CurrentCamera = MyCam
end)

And whenever the character resets, that core script decides to change back my scriptable camera to default settings and use it as if it belonged to it. How can I disable this behavior of this core script module so that it doesn’t take my camera and take control over it when a new character initializes?

#2

not an expert on cameras, but can’t you just change the camera type of workspace.CurrentCamera?

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#3

Could do this also as its more efficient and you don’t have to deal with creating the instance,
But your script seems to be fine when i reset, here is my script

local Player = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer

local MyCam = Instance.new("Camera")
MyCam.CameraType = Enum.CameraType.Scriptable
MyCam.Name = "MyCam"
MyCam.Parent = workspace
workspace.CurrentCamera = MyCam
Player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function()
	local MyCam = workspace:FindFirstChild("MyCam")
	MyCam.CameraType = Enum.CameraType.Scriptable
	MyCam.Name = "MyCam"
	MyCam.Parent = workspace
	workspace.CurrentCamera = MyCam
end)
#4

No actually im asking a way so that this behavior could be tackled in a more clean and convenient way rather than just this hacky way, one method I found that is more clean in my opinion is this:

local LocalPlayer = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer

local cam = Instance.new("Camera")
cam.Name = "MyCam"
cam.CameraType = Enum.CameraType.Scriptable
cam.Parent = workspace

workspace.CurrentCamera = cam

--ReAdjust Player's Camera
LocalPlayer.CharacterAdded:Connect(function()
	cam.CameraType = Enum.CameraType.Scriptable
end)

I think this way would be way more clean as it doesn’t creates new camera instances every time the character loads or re-loads.

But still, if there is a more better approach, please tell.

#5

In that case you should just be able to do what @notsad2 said above


task.wait(2)
local cam = workspace.CurrentCamera
cam.CameraType = Enum.CameraType.Scriptable

Theres a small wait to just wait for when the camera loads but you can adjust that to your game just for testing purposes.