So, I’m trying to make an over-the-shoulder type camera. I’ve tried to do this kind of this before but I’ve always come across the same problem - how do I make the character still walk in the direction it needs to relative to the camera?
Right now, whenever the camera isn’t facing straight forward in the direction the character is facing, pressing any movement key makes it spin quickly in that direction, which isn’t what I want. I’m looking for something so the character just keeps moving that way.
For example, with this image - if the character pressed A then they’d keep going in the way they are facing now. If D was pressed, they’d go the opposite way. If W was pressed, they would move towards the mouse (and so on).
Yeah I’m aware of this, but that means I have to disconnect the WASD controls from the ControlScript. It’s annoying doing that but I’m not sure if there’s another way.
The MasterControl module handling the player’s movement contains a call to :Move as method of a player, if you can override the MasterControl module by copying it and altering it you can change the RelativeToCamera flag in it.
in MasterControl;
local moveFunc = LocalPlayer.Move
local updateMovement = function()
if not areControlsEnabled then return end
local humanoid = getHumanoid()
if not humanoid then return end
if isJumpEnabled and isJumping and not humanoid.PlatformStand then
local state = humanoid:GetState()
if state ~= STATE_JUMPING and state ~= STATE_FREEFALL and state ~= STATE_LANDED then
humanoid.Jump = isJumping
end
end
moveFunc(LocalPlayer, moveValue, true)
end
My camera was attached to the character - instead of being able to rotate around a vector point. Fairly simple fix, just use a vector instead of a cframe for choosing your character’s position. Hopefully this’ll help other people with this problem. It’s surprisingly easy to make a custom camera.
What do you mean by this? When I set this up with my script, It rotates the player but not the camera. Any help? This is the source:
local Player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local Character = Player.Character or Player.CharacterAdded:wait()
local Cam = workspace.CurrentCamera
local UIS = game:GetService('UserInputService')
local RunService = game:GetService('RunService')
local TweenService = game:GetService("TweenService")
local Zoom = Instance.new('NumberValue')
Zoom.Value = 0
UIS.MouseBehavior = Enum.MouseBehavior.LockCenter
UIS.MouseIconEnabled = false
Player.CharacterAdded:connect(function(CharacterAdded)
Character = CharacterAdded
end)
RunService.RenderStepped:connect(function()
if Zoom.Value < 0 then
Zoom.Value = 0
elseif Zoom.Value > 2 then
Zoom.Value = 2
end
if Character then
Cam.CFrame = CFrame.new(Character.HumanoidRootPart.Position) * CFrame.new(2,5+Zoom.Value,5+Zoom.Value) * CFrame.Angles(math.rad(-15),0,0)
end
end)
UIS.InputChanged:connect(function(Input, GPE)
if not GPE then
if Input.UserInputType == Enum.UserInputType.MouseWheel then
if Zoom.Value >= 0 and Zoom.Value <= 2 then
if Input.Position.Z == -1 then
local goal = {Value = Zoom.Value+1}
local tweenInfo = TweenInfo.new(0.1)
local tween = TweenService:Create(Zoom, tweenInfo, goal)
tween:Play()
elseif Input.Position.Z == 1 then
local goal = {Value = Zoom.Value-1}
local tweenInfo = TweenInfo.new(0.1)
local tween = TweenService:Create(Zoom, tweenInfo, goal)
tween:Play()
end
end
elseif Input.UserInputType == Enum.UserInputType.MouseMovement then
Character.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame = Character.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame * CFrame.Angles(0, math.rad(-Input.Delta.x/5),0)
-- Cam.CFrame = Cam.CFrame * CFrame.Angles(0,math.rad(-Input.Delta.x/5),0)
end
end
end)
I want it to be able to rotate the camera with the player, and when A, S and D are pressed for the camera to not spin around. This is what I’m talking about:
