How to create a Smooth Third Person Camera?

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#1

Good day, developers! I would like to ask regarding third-person camera ideas if y’all have some in mind. I’m trying to create a smooth camera from “:crossed_swords: Blades & Buffoonery.”

What can I do to achieve this? I’ve been searching online for camera manipulation tutorials with some trigonometry, though none really helped that much.

#2

are you talking about the smooth shift lock transition?

you can do this by copying the playermodule (in test mode) and then pasting it into starterplayerscripts
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then go to around line 510 with the CameraModule:Update function and you can set the camera offset here with
self.activeCameraController:SetMouseLockOffset()

then inside of this function pass some vector3 value object and then you can tween the value of that vector3value from a different script to have a smooth transition

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#3

I’ll try this out later, thanks.

#4

Oh, follow-up question, what do I tween exactly? (what’s the instance)

#5

tween the value of the vector3value that you use for the camera offset inside of the camera script

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#6

A better solution is to use humanoid camera offset. Then send a ray to the right of the character, whatever it collides on is your position, unless it goes too far.

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#7

camera offset might be easier but you should use
HumanoidRootPart.CFrame.LookVector * forwardDistance and
HumanoidRootPart.CFrame.RightVector * sidewaysDistance
to create the offset

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