Cannot get camera to stay fixed above map

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Hello! I am developing an FPS set in WW1, and I am making the starting UI at the moment. When the player joins, I want them to see this UI, but have a blurred view of the map from the top down behind the GUI. I have this scripted, and I cannot figure out how to get it to work, as when my character spawns, the camera is just set to my character.

My code:

local camera = game.Workspace.CurrentCamera
camera.CameraType = Enum.CameraType.Scriptable

camera.CFrame = game.ReplicatedStorage.SkyView.Value

This does not work. Would I have to put this in a CharacterAdded event instead?

Edit: game.ReplicatedStorage.SkyView is a CFrameValue with a value of the camera’s CFrame pointing down at the map below.

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If your localscript is placed inside of a ScreenGui, make sure that the “ResetOnSpawn” property is set to false of the screengui.

You could also add a wait at the top of the script that waits until the character is loaded in before moving the camera.

Hope this helps!

3

You can either use CharacterAdded or just put the LocalScript into StarterCharacterScripts.

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local replicated = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local skyview = replicated:WaitForChild("SkyView")

local camera = workspace.CurrentCamera
camera.CameraType = Enum.CameraType.Scriptable
camera.CFrame = skyview.Value

Should be as simple as a local script inside the StarterCharacterScripts folder, providing the “SkyView” instance is indeed a “CFrameValue” instance and its “Value” property correctly stores/holds a CFrame value.

5

I did that, but it just set the camera back on my avatar.

6

Is there some other script(s) manipulating the camera? The camera type “Scriptable” restricts all camera manipulation to scripts only.

7

No, this script is the only one messing with the camera.

8

This could have something to do with Roblox setting the camera because the player loaded, try waiting a bit before changing the camera CFrame.

9

Is the character’s humanoid instance dying at all? Whenever a character dies their camera is destroyed and then recreated upon them being reloaded.

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local replicated = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local skyview = replicated:WaitForChild("SkyView")

local camera = workspace.CurrentCamera
repeat
	task.wait()
	camera.CameraType = Enum.CameraType.Scriptable
until camera.CameraType == Enum.CameraType.Scriptable
camera.CFrame = skyview.Value

Waiting for the camera type to change may do the trick.

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I will try this. Sorry for the late response. I just now checked the forum.