How do I give orientation data using CFrame.new?

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#1

Hello gamers, I’m trying to give a position and an orientation to the camera via CFrame, however I don’t know how to give orientation and surprisingly searching online yields results that are unrelated or straight up don’t work.
Here’s what I have right now.

local Player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local Character = Player.Character or Player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local Camera = workspace.CurrentCamera

Camera.CameraType = Enum.CameraType.Scriptable
Camera.CFrame = CFrame.new(336.962, -40.25, 4.442)
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#2

You generally use CFrame.Angles to apply rotation to a CFrame., but you can use CFrame.fromOrientation to apply values from orientation.

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#3

Here is an example of how to:

local Player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local Character = Player.Character or Player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local Camera = workspace.CurrentCamera

Camera.CameraType = Enum.CameraType.Scriptable

-- Define position and orientation vectors
local position = Vector3.new(336.962, -40.25, 4.442)
local rightVector = Vector3.new(1, 0, 0) -- X-axis
local upVector = Vector3.new(0, 1, 0) -- Y-axis
local lookVector = Vector3.new(0, 0, 1) -- Z-axis

-- Set Camera CFrame
Camera.CFrame = CFrame.new(position, position + lookVector, upVector)
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#4

You can multiply a CFrame with position with a CFrame with rotation to combine their properties.

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#5

How would I do this? Everything I try just changes the position to the orientation numbers.

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#6 
Camera.CFrame = CFrame.new(posX, posY, posZ) * CFrame.fromOrientation(336.962, -40.25, 4.442)
#7

This isn’t working, I don’t know what the problem is

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#8

Thanks for telling me that, can you send the code so I can help fix the issue :+1: :wink:

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#9

This is the entire script. Nothing else interacts with the camera at all.

local Player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local Character = Player.Character or Player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local Camera = workspace.CurrentCamera

Camera.CameraType = Enum.CameraType.Scriptable
Camera.CFrame = CFrame.new(336.962, -40.25, 4.442) * CFrame.fromOrientation(-20, -60, 0)

i’m try to get a position of 336.962, -39.25, 4.442 and an orientation of -20, -60, 0. For some reason everything I try results in only one or neither.

#10

In the code I sent posX, posY, posZ are supposed to be the position and the numbers I typed in are the orientation.

#11

I’ve confirmed that 336.962, -40.25, 4.442 is the correct position.

#12

What’s happening then? I thought 336.962, -40.25, 4.442 were the orientation.

#13

I honestly don’t know. I copied the script to a new place and everything seems to work just fine there.

#14

CFrame.new(336.962,-40.25,4.442)*CFrame.fromOrientation(math.rad(-20),math.rad(-60),math.rad(0))

Is this work? i already check my self there no something problem

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#15

To add a rotation factor to a CFrame, multiply it by CFrame.Angles(), which is just a CFrame with no translation but the rotation provided.

Camera.CFrame = CFrame.new(x, y, z) * CFrame.Angles(math.deg(38), math.deg(92), math.deg(31))
#16

This reminds me on the CFrame docs it says fromOrientation uses radians but orientation uses degrees

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#17

Also it still work if fromEulerAnglesYXZ similiar Angles
without math.rad it’s still mess up

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