Camera not working properly

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The problem

First up. this is no duplicate (the title is similar to other bug reports but its a different thing).
But as it says, i have a problem with setting up a camera and moving a player’s head.

I have made a LocalScript in StarterPlayerScript that looks like this:

local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local character = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local camera = workspace.CurrentCamera
local head = character:FindFirstChild("Head")
local humanoid = character:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
local rootPart = character:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart")

if not head or not humanoid or not rootPart then return end


local neck = head:FindFirstChild("Neck") or humanoid:FindFirstChild("Neck")
if not neck then
	neck = Instance.new("Motor6D")
	neck.Name = "Neck"
	neck.Part0 = character:FindFirstChild("UpperTorso") or character:FindFirstChild("Torso")
	neck.Part1 = head
	neck.Parent = head
end

local originalNeckC0 = neck.C0

game:GetService("RunService").RenderStepped:Connect(function()
	local offset = Vector3.new(0, 6, -12) 
	local targetPosition = rootPart.Position + rootPart.CFrame:VectorToWorldSpace(offset)

	camera.CameraType = Enum.CameraType.Scriptable
	camera.CFrame = CFrame.new(targetPosition) * CFrame.Angles(0, rootPart.Orientation.Y * math.pi/180, 0)

	
	local mouse = player:GetMouse()
	local direction = (mouse.Hit.p - head.Position).unit
	local angleY = math.atan2(direction.X, direction.Z)

	neck.C0 = originalNeckC0 * CFrame.Angles(0, angleY, 0)
end)

And before you ask, this script is enabled.

Current Behavior
This happens if i move fowards:

This happens if I move Backwards

and this happens if i move left/right

Excpected Behavior
It should work properly without eventual spinning.

It would be cool if someone helps me!

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I’m thinking the issue lies on how you’re calculating target position for the camera. I’ve had a similar issue in the past and I fixed it by repeatedly checking player move direction and updating calculating logic appurtenant to it.

Calculate camera target normally when you’re moving forward but add a negative to the calculator when moving backwards.

A likely example to work for backwards logic would be:
-(CFrame.new(targetPosition) * CFrame.Angles(0, rootPart.Orientation.Y * math.pi/180, 0))

Please test this code snippet and tell me if it works, will modify dependedly.

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using this the spinning is fixed, but the camera still moves around without focusing on the player, regardless of where he is.
I’m trying to fix it.