CurrentCamera is Broken for seemingly no reason

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#1

I’m trying to make a spectate system but when I go to assign the CurrentCamera to another player, it does lose focus on the local player, but never focuses on the player it’s supposed to. It just kind of freezes.

game.Workspace.CurrentCamera.CameraType = Enum.CameraType.Custom
	game.Workspace.CurrentCamera.CameraSubject = game.Players:GetPlayerByUserId(aliveplayers[curplayer]).Character.Humanoid

I can confirm that it is assigning the correct player as the text label that shows the targets username does in fact show what it’s supposed to. I get the username like so:

script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.Spectator.Frame.Logo.Text = game.Players:GetNameFromUserIdAsync(aliveplayers[curplayer])

Here’s a video of the problem:

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#2

Not enough script to see whats going on.

#3

Have you tried checking the CameraSubject property of the camera AFTER it loses the focus? If it is set to nil then there’s some other script conflicting and resetting it.

#4 
local cam = game.Workspace.CurrentCamera

local connection: RBXScriptConnection
local curplayer = 1
local curplayerhumanoid: Humanoid

function right()
	local aliveplayers = game.ReplicatedStorage.RetrievePlayersInRound:InvokeServer()

	curplayer = curplayer + 1
	if curplayer > #aliveplayers then
		curplayer = 1
	end

	curplayerhumanoid = game.Players:GetPlayerByUserId(aliveplayers[curplayer]).Character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
	script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.Spectator.Frame.Logo.Text = game.Players:GetNameFromUserIdAsync(aliveplayers[curplayer])

	pcall(function()
		connection:Disconnect()
	end)
	connection = curplayerhumanoid.Died:Connect(function()
		aliveplayers = game.ReplicatedStorage.RetrievePlayersInRound:InvokeServer()
		
		curplayer = curplayer + 1
		if curplayer > #aliveplayers then
			curplayer = 1
		end

		if curplayer == #aliveplayers or #aliveplayers == 0 then
			script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.Spectator.Enabled = false
			cam.CameraSubject = game.Players.LocalPlayer.Character.Humanoid
		else right() end
	end)
	
	cam.CameraType = Enum.CameraType.Custom
	cam.CameraSubject = game.Players:GetPlayerByUserId(aliveplayers[curplayer]).Character.Humanoid
end

function left()
	local aliveplayers = game.ReplicatedStorage.RetrievePlayersInRound:InvokeServer()

	curplayer = curplayer - 1
	if curplayer <= 0 then
		curplayer = #aliveplayers
	end

	curplayerhumanoid = game.Players:GetPlayerByUserId(aliveplayers[curplayer]).Character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
	script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.Spectator.Frame.Logo.Text = game.Players:GetNameFromUserIdAsync(aliveplayers[curplayer])

	pcall(function()
		connection:Disconnect()
	end)
	connection = curplayerhumanoid.Died:Connect(function()
		aliveplayers = game.ReplicatedStorage.RetrievePlayersInRound:InvokeServer()
		
		curplayer = curplayer + 1
		if curplayer > #aliveplayers then
			curplayer = 1
		end

		if curplayer == #aliveplayers or #aliveplayers == 0 then
			script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.Spectator.Enabled = false
			cam.CameraSubject = game.Players.LocalPlayer.Character.Humanoid
		else right() end
	end)
	
	cam.CameraType = Enum.CameraType.Custom
	cam.CameraSubject = game.Players:GetPlayerByUserId(aliveplayers[curplayer]).Character.Humanoid
end

script.Parent.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
	if game.ReplicatedStorage.RetrievePlayersInRound:InvokeServer() == nil then return end

	local exists = false

	for i, plr in pairs(game.ReplicatedStorage.RetrievePlayersInRound:InvokeServer()) do
		if plr == game.Players.LocalPlayer.UserId then
			exists = true
			break
		end
	end

	if exists then return end

	script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.Spectator.Enabled = not script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.Spectator.Enabled

	if script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.Spectator.Enabled then		
		right()
		left()
	else
		pcall(function()
			connection:Disconnect()
		end)
		cam.CameraSubject = game.Players.LocalPlayer.Character.Humanoid

		script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.Shop.Enabled = false
		script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.Inventory.Enabled = false
		script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.EventGui.Enabled = false
	end
end)

script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent:WaitForChild("Spectator").Frame.Right.ImageButton.MouseButton1Click:Connect(right)
script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.Spectator.Frame.Left.ImageButton.MouseButton1Click:Connect(left)

This is the entire spectate script, everything but the camerasubject aspect of it works as expected.
Thanks.

#5

I did, and confusingly enough…

#6

For context, the names shown here are my two alts who are in a round. My main is trying to spectate them in the lobby.

#7

i would try making a loop with renderstepped and setting the camera subject through that. from the looks of it, the camera updtaes when you set the subject, but it doesnt stick, if you keep updatign it then it will stay on the subject ever yframe,.

#8

The issue with this is that when I update the subject, the target is already far away from the player spectating them, but the camera doesn’t move at all.

#9

When you print the camera subject, do something like print(CameraSubject:GetFullName()) instead of printing it directly.

Also, is your playing map far from the lobby area?

#10

Alright.

The map is pretty far from the lobby area, too.

#11

Maybe try using a repeat until loop to set the camera type to custom

#12

This causes an infinite loop for some reason. Obviously the camera type doesn’t want change…

#13

Okay so it turns out that the reason the Camera wasn’t locking on the subject was because it was too far away as the spectate system works when the players are closer together. I’ll try to solve this by moving the maps closer

#14

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