Disabling camera movement

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#1

I need help on disabling the camera movement in a top down game
https://gyazo.com/44d842f60adfa4a581344953ad0320fb
You can see that the player can move the camera slightly, which isn’t normal for a top down view

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#2

Are you using a while loop to update the camera?

#3

Change the camera type to Scriptable

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#4

No here is the script

local offset = Vector3.new(-40,70,0)

local fieldOfView = 90

local player = script.Parent.Parent

local camera = game.Workspace.CurrentCamera

local runService = game:GetService("RunService")

camera.FieldOfView = fieldOfView

local function onRenderStep()

local playerPosition = player.Character.HumanoidRootPart.Position

local cameraPosition = playerPosition + offset

camera.CoordinateFrame = CFrame.new(cameraPosition, playerPosition)

end

runService:BindToRenderStep('Camera',Enum.RenderPriority.Camera.Value,onRenderStep)
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#5

Add this to your code:

camera.CameraType  =  "Scriptable"
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#6

Like @ThousandDegreeKnife said. Setting the CameraType property to “Scriptable” is probably exactly what you’re looking for.

You should check out some of the other cameraTypes, maybe you can find a more desirable method for the job. Like if you used Enum.CameraType.Follow you can have the player still rotate the camera in a top down view.

Also you might want to ensure that the character has loaded before the rest of the script runs, otherwise things can break.

local offset = Vector3.new(-40,70,0)

local fieldOfView = 90

local player = script.Parent.Parent

local character = player.Character
if not character or not character.Parent then
    character = player.CharacterAdded:wait()
end

... the rest of your code ...
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