How to change player's camera rotation?

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#1

Hello!
So, I’m making an obby and it has stages. Whenever a player dies, they are teleported back to that stage. I don’t know how to change their camera rotation because it is turned in the opposite way as they should continue the obby.
How would I do that?

Thank you!

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#2

Could you possibly make the camera’s CFrame, it’s position with the lookAt being the character’s HumanoidRootPart’s LookVector?

For example:

local player = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer
local camera = workspace.CurrentCamera

camera.CFrame = CFrame.new(camera.CFrame.Position, player.Character.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame.LookVector)
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#3

Should that be server or local script + if local, where should I put it?

#4

You should put it in a local script, in the startergui.

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#5

Since it’s using the LocalPlayer, it has to be a LocalScript.
Where you put it is up to you really, I’d prefer StarterCharacterScripts since it’ll run when they spawn.

#6

Im pretty sure just rotating the spawn location 180 degrees should solve the problem.

#7

It’s not about the spawn location. Stages (checkpoints) are just normal parts.

#8

It returns

HumanoidRootPart is not a valid member of Model

I put it in StarterGui.

#9

Ah I hoped that wouldn’t happen.
You’ll need to :WaitForChild when getting the Humanoid

#10

Ok. I’m not getting the error anymore, but it seems it’s not working (it doesn’t turn the camera)

#11

Remember that it only runs once, unless it’s in a ScreenGui with ResetOnSpawn on.
This is why I recommended StarterCharacterScripts.

#12

Ok. Did it, but it turns the camera only sometimes, not always.
Oh, I put the wait() above the code and it seems to be working now, but, is there any other way to fix that problem?

#13

Not really, it’s to do with the camera and how it’s re-positioned when you spawn.

#14

In Robloxs template obby it doesnt use a spawn location just like yours and uses a decal to indicate its a checkpoint and uses a script inside it in which if u touch it you now spawn there. You can find it if you go on studio and click + new then All Templates then Obby

nvm just checked it only works sometimes

#15

Thank you so much!
Optional thing: is there any way to make the camera to be a little bit above the character, not behind it. And also, it’s not really centered.

#16

I’ll check that later, thank you!

#17

For that you’d need to change the CFrame to the HumanoidRootPart’s CFrame + some offset.
You’ll get the Orientation from the HumanoidRootPart’s CFrame by doing this.

For example:

wait()
local player = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer
local camera = workspace.CurrentCamera
local humanoidRootPart = player.Character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")

camera.CFrame = humanoidRootPart.CFrame * CFrame.new(0, 2, 1) --// 2 Y axis offset + 1 Z axis offset
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#18

so theres another solution, just rotate the spawn or checkpoint

#19

It’s easier to make your camera’s rotation adapt to the spawn’s cframe instead of adapt how many spawns your game has just to the camera

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