How can I position a camera to a certain position

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#1

I am making a tool where when player click then it positions his camera infront of the tool brick.

To prevent bad angles using a brick to put the camera position to, I want to offset a camera in a certain direction of the brick.

This is my current code with the bricks:

game.Workspace.CurrentCamera.CFrame = CFrame.new(CameraPart.Position, LookPart.Position)

CameraPart is the small brick for the camera and LookPart is the brick which I want it to look at/be positioned off in the future.

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Setting a camera position to a part position
#2

I think CurrentCamera should be camera.
vector3 does not go with CFrame

game.Workspace.Camera.Cframe = CameraPart.CFrame
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#3

I recommend you to use Remote Events

This is the normal script side:

local RemoteEvent = game:GetService(“ReplicatedStorage”).RemoveEvent

part.ClickDetector.MouseClick:Connect(function(plr)
RemoteEvent:FireClient(plr) – Fired the Event
end)

This is the local script side:

local RemoteEvent = game:GetService(“ReplicatedStorage”).RemoveEvent

RemoteEvent.OnClientEvent:Connect(function()
– Type your function here. Whenever one clicks the button this function is going to be working.
end)

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#4

I’m already using remote event for this

#5

What issues are you currently having with what you’ve written?

#6

You have to set the cameratype to scriptable, else the default camera scripts override what you set.

#7

So then I don’t need to use a brick to assign position to the camera and rather use the lookat brick

#8

If you want to get the Position infront of a part, you can use CFrame.lookVector to offset 1 stud infront of the part. This would be based on the front face of the part

If you multiply by lookVector by a value, it will move x studs in that direction.

local distanceOutwards = 5
local originPosition = part.Position + (part.CFrame.lookVector * distanceOutwards) -- Gets a position 1 stud infront
local targetPosition = part.Position
Camera.CFrame = CFrame.new(originPosition,targetPosition)

This code would set the camera to be placed infront of the brick, and facing towards the brick, without the need to get multiply bricks

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