How do I make first person animations where the camera follows the head of the player

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I want the first-person camera to follow the head in the animation. I already have the body visible.

Here is the issue. Seeing the animation in third person doesn’t matter because it’s going to be locked in first person when the game comes out. Third person is just for testing.

The youtube tutorials that I found all used moon animator which didn’t work out because I used the default roblox animator. The other forum posts that I found had variables that I didn’t know of so I wasn’t sure where to start. Any help would be appreciated :slight_smile:.

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I see. Yes, Moon Animator is pretty much unreachable for a lot a people because of its high price. But still, what you can do is extract the player’s head position and constantly check if it’s being updated, then add a temporary Camera instance and set the Workspace’s Camera position and rotation as the Camera, then reset it when the process is done.

local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local _Workspace = game:GetService("Workspace")

local workspaceCamera = _Workspace:WaitForChild("CurrentCamera")
workspaceCamera.CameraType = Enum.CameraType.Scriptable

local cameraInstance = Instance.new("Camera")
local player = Players.LocalPlayer
local character = player.Character or player.Character.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local characterHumanoid = character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")

local headPart = characterHumanoid:WaitForChild("Head")

local animation = "animation_path_or_id"
local animationTrack = characterHumanoid:LoadAnimation(animation)

if animationTrack.IsPlaying == true then
   cameraInstance.CFrame = CFrame.new(
      headPart.CFrame.Position.X - 2,
      headPart.CFrame.Position.Y,
      headPart.CFrame.Position.Z
   )

   workspaceCamera.CFrame = cameraInstance.CFrame
end

if animationTrack.Stopped then
   workspaceCamera.CameraType = Enum.CameraType.Fixed
end

What I’m doing here is checking if the animation is playing, then throwing the camera’s position two studs behind the player’s camera. If you bump into anything, let me know! :wink:

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Sorry if I didn’t do something that you said. I have little experience with cameras in roblox studio. I simply cannot make anything camera related work :joy:

Also here is the script that operates the animation:

local characterOG = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer.Character
local tool = script.Parent
local animationOG = tool:WaitForChild("SeedSow")
local animationTrackOG = characterOG.Humanoid:LoadAnimation(animationOG)


local canRun = true
local debounceTime = 5 -- Change this for a different tool cooldown length

tool.Activated:Connect(function()
	if canRun then
		canRun = false
		 
		animationTrackOG:Play()
		 
		local Players = game:GetService("Players")
		local _Workspace = game:GetService("Workspace")

		local workspaceCamera = _Workspace:WaitForChild("Camera")
		workspaceCamera.CameraType = Enum.CameraType.Scriptable

		local cameraInstance = Instance.new("Camera")
		local player = Players.LocalPlayer
		local character = player.Character or player.Character.CharacterAdded:Wait()
		local characterHumanoid = character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")

		local headPart = characterHumanoid:WaitForChild("Head")

		local animation = "125596070891049"
		local animationTrack = characterHumanoid:LoadAnimation(animation)

		if animationTrack.IsPlaying == true then
			cameraInstance.CFrame = CFrame.new(
				headPart.CFrame.Position.X - 2,
				headPart.CFrame.Position.Y,
				headPart.CFrame.Position.Z
			)

			workspaceCamera.CFrame = cameraInstance.CFrame
		end

		if animationTrack.Stopped then
			workspaceCamera.CameraType = Enum.CameraType.Fixed
		end
		
		
		
		wait(debounceTime)
		canRun = true
	end
end)

I probably should have shared the script beforehand, but at least now it has your revisions.

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Full stop.What does it has to do with Moon Animator at all??? :robot:

Just set camera’s CFrame to player’s head and make sure it has CameraType scriptable…
Jeez bro stop reinventing the wheel (but making it square) :skull:

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Just do:
And next time analyze the code and not blantly copy and paste it
User gave you honestly if being polite not good code.
here me debloatwared your code:

--!optimize 2
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local RunService = game:GetService("RunService")
local Heartbeat = RunService.Heartbeat

local Camera:Camera = workspace.CurrentCamera
local tool:Tool = script.Parent
local Plr:Player = Players.LocalPlayer
local Char:Model = Plr.Character
local Head = Char:WaitForChild("Head")::Part
local Humanoid = Char:WaitForChild("Humanoid")::Humanoid
local Animator = Humanoid:WaitForChild("Animator")::Animator
local animationOG = tool:WaitForChild("SeedSow")::Animation
local animationTrackOG:AnimationTrack = Animator:LoadAnimation(animationOG)


local CanRunDB:boolean = true
local debounceTime:number = 5 -- Change this for a different tool cooldown length
local TaskHeartbeat:RBXScriptConnection? = nil
tool.Destroying:Once(function():()
	if TaskHeartbeat~=nil then
		TaskHeartbeat:Disconnect()
		TaskHeartbeat=nil
	end
end)

local function LockToHead():()
	Camera.CFrame=Head.CFrame
end

tool.Activated:Connect(function():()
	if CanRunDB then
		CanRunDB = false
		animationTrackOG:Play()
		TaskHeartbeat = Heartbeat:Connect(LockToHead)
		Camera.CameraType=Enum.CameraType.Scriptable
		LockToHead()
		task.wait(debounceTime)
		if TaskHeartbeat~=nil then
			TaskHeartbeat:Disconnect()
			TaskHeartbeat=nil
		end
		CanRunDB=true
		Camera.CameraType=Enum.CameraType.Fixed
	end
end)

That assuming local script is under the tool.

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Thank you so much! This worked very well. In the future, I will not copy and paste code. I tried to understand the previous code, but I don’t understand cameras that well. Thanks for the help :smiley:!

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