I recently shared a spring module that I imported into roblox lua in a previous post which you can see here. It works great and it ended up being the solution I needed to create my ‘dragged’/‘chase’ camera for the hover car I’m working on. But, I can’t figure out how to use the spring to update not just the position of the camera but also it’s orientation. This is what I’ve attempted so far although it produces buggy results which I’ll show below:
-- p = pos, tv = top vector, bv = back vector
local updateCam do
local vec3 = Vector3.new
local CF = CFrame.new
local function dc(cf)
local px, py, pz,
xx, yx, zx,
xy, yy, zy,
xz, yz, zz = cf:components()
local p = vec3(px, py, pz)
local rv = vec3(xx, xy, xz)
local tv = vec3(yx, yy, yz)
local bv = vec3(zx, zy, zz)
return p, rv, tv, bv
end
local function CFrameFromTopBack(p, tv, bv)
local right = tv:Cross(bv)
return CF(p.x, p.y, p.z,
right.x, tv.x, bv.x,
right.y, tv.y, bv.y,
right.z, tv.z, bv.z)
end
local cp, _, ctv, cbv = dc(Camera.CFrame)
local m_spring = require(script.Spring)
local pspring = m_spring.new(cp, vec3())
local tvspring = m_spring.new(ctv, vec3())
local bvspring = m_spring.new(cbv, vec3())
function updateCam(dt)
local bp, _, btv, bbv = dc(carCFrame*Offset)
pspring.target = bp
tvspring.target = btv
bvspring.target = bbv
pspring:update(dt)
tvspring:update(dt)
bvspring:update(dt)
local fp, ftv, fbv = pspring.pos, tvspring.pos, bvspring.pos
Camera.CFrame = CFrameFromTopBack(fp, ftv, fbv)
end
end
This method resulted in this:
Awesome UI is awesome
As you can see in the video above, when the camera moves fast the camera begins to get warped with the above method.
Does anyone know a solid solution for this that won’t result in the cframe matrix being warped?