How can I get a top-down camera to move with the mouse?

[Colinchannz (WWhoKnowsRight)]

I want my camera to be able to move along with the mouse as shown below.

I’ve considered a few solutions such as lerping a camera part, but I’m not sure what would be the optimal solution.

[Tyrannosaurus2686837 (Pullux)]

Is this what you’re looking for?

local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local UserInputService = game:GetService("UserInputService")
local RunService = game:GetService("RunService")

local distance = 50
local rangeMultiplier = 2

local player = Players.LocalPlayer
local camera = workspace.CurrentCamera
local middleLocation: BasePart = workspace:WaitForChild("X") -- update this, you could have a platform for the mouse to run along as this.

camera.CameraSubject = middleLocation

RunService.RenderStepped:Connect(function()
	local mouse = player:GetMouse()
	local hitLocation = (mouse.Hit.Position * rangeMultiplier) - (middleLocation.Position)
	print(mouse.Hit.Position)
	camera.CFrame = CFrame.new(hitLocation + Vector3.yAxis * distance) * CFrame.Angles(math.rad(-90), 0, math.rad(-90))
	
	local p = Instance.new("Part")
	p.Size = Vector3.new(1,1,1)
	p.CFrame = camera.CFrame - (Vector3.yAxis * distance)
	p.CanCollide = false
	p.CanTouch = false
	p.CanQuery = false
	p.Transparency = 0.5
	p.Parent = workspace
end)

[Colinchannz (WWhoKnowsRight)]

That seems to be what I’m looking for, but I’m not too sure about the cloned parts flowing around as it moves or the boundary being set to just a part

[Colinchannz (WWhoKnowsRight)]

Update: it is a bit jittery in certain spots when I set the “middleLocation” to HRP due to it now calculating the camera height from the HRP’s position. That would be my only complaint for that script, but thank you nonetheless. I will try to polish it before setting the solution.

[Colinchannz (WWhoKnowsRight)]

New issue I have encountered.
The further the player strays away from the “middleLocation”, the less centered they will get until eventually they are off the screen.

I apologize if I didn’t make this clear before.

[happya_x (Happya)]

just set middlelocation to humanoidrootpart.position

[Tyrannosaurus2686837 (Pullux)]

What is your “MiddleLocation” set to? I’m trying to recreate the issue with it being the HumanoidRootPart, but there seems to be no issue.

[Colinchannz (WWhoKnowsRight)]

I changed local middleLocation: BasePart = workspace:WaitForChild("X") to local middleLocation: BasePart = LocalPlayer.Character.HumanoidRootPart.
I’m not sure what is going wrong here.

[Tyrannosaurus2686837 (Pullux)]

Works fine for me. I don’t know what the issue could be.

[Colinchannz (WWhoKnowsRight)]

it appears that I can’t change the rangeMultiplier or else that issue occurs. It must be at 2.

[Tyrannosaurus2686837 (Pullux)]

Found the issue.
update this line:

local hitLocation = (mouse.Hit.Position * rangeMultiplier) - (middleLocation.Position)

to this:

local hitLocation = (mouse.Hit.Position * rangeMultiplier) - (middleLocation.Position * (rangeMultiplier - 1))

Hope this works.

[Colinchannz (WWhoKnowsRight)]

There’s a new issue that I can’t seem to solve. The camera will instead base its distance from a wall instead of the HRP if the player is close enough to a wall, and the mouse is on the other side of the wall opposite the player.

Would it be possible to keep the distance between the player and the camera static?