Help with Camera Shift Lock Issue

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#1

Hello everyone,

I recently stumbled upon a fantastic script that perfectly fits my game’s requirements. The script adds a delay to the camera movement, creating a smoother and more immersive experience. This reminded me of a game called “The Strongest Battlegrounds,” which had an impressive camera-to-head position attachment.

Motivated by this, I attempted to incorporate a similar feature into my own game. I successfully implemented it; however, I encountered an issue. Parenting the camera to an object other than the humanoid disrupts the shift lock functionality, which happens to be a critical aspect of my game.

Here’s what it looks with script disabled:


Here’s what it looks with script enabled:

Here’s the script I’m referring to:

--//Services
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local RunService = game:GetService("RunService")

--//The Camera.
local Camera = workspace.CurrentCamera 

--//Player Assets
local Player = Players.LocalPlayer
local Character = Player.Character or Player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local Humanoid = Character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
local Head = Character:WaitForChild("Head")

--//Camera Block - Creates the CameraBlock responsible for making the "drag effect".
local CameraBlock = Instance.new("Part", Character)
CameraBlock.Size = Vector3.new(1, 1, 1)
CameraBlock.Name = "CameraBlock"
CameraBlock.CastShadow = false
CameraBlock.CanQuery = false
CameraBlock.CanTouch = false
CameraBlock.CanCollide = false
CameraBlock.Transparency = 0

--//Body Position - Responsible for positioning the CameraBlock to the Player's RootPart.
local BodyPosition = Instance.new("BodyPosition", CameraBlock)
BodyPosition.MaxForce = Vector3.new(math.huge, math.huge, math.huge)

--//Main Loop
local function Loop()
	--//Body Position - Sets the position of the BodyPosition.
	BodyPosition.Position = Head.CFrame.Position + Vector3.new(0, (Humanoid.HipHeight - script:GetAttribute("CameraHeight")), 0)
	--//Camera Stiffness - Controls the Stiffness of the movement.
	BodyPosition.P = 1000 * script:GetAttribute("CameraStiffness")
	--//Camera Subject - Sets the CameraSubject every frame to be our beautiful CameraBlock.
	Camera.CameraSubject = CameraBlock
	--//You can drag this one out of the loop, but other scripts will set the Subject to different instances instead of CameraBlock.
end

RunService:BindToRenderStep("Smooth Camera", 201, Loop)

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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#2

It looks like you are using the CameraBlock as your subject to accomplish the smooth transitioning. I would recommend leaving the subject alone and just apply hookes law to the cframe at every render step

#3

Hmm, could you please explain what you mean by Hooke’s Law?
Are you suggesting for me to do something like this:
Camera.CFrame= CFrame.new(Head)
I have attempted a similar approach before it forced me into first person, I’m uncertain if I scripted it correctly, could you provide more context or explain it further? Also, when you mention leaving the camera subject alone, do you mean removing the camera block?