How to detect when the camera starts moving and when it stops

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I simply need a way to detect when the Camera starts moving ( mostly looking for when the Player rotates the camera, but just any movement would already be great. ) and how to detect when it stops, any ideas on how to get this?

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Yes! This would be quite easy tbh, all you need to do is put a rendered stepped event in a localscript and a variable that holds the camera’s CFrame, and every time the rendered stepped function i called (every frame on the client the script is on) check to see if the camera’s CFrame == the CFrame you saved to the variable, if it isnt then the camera has been moved/rotated and set the varaible to the new CFrame, then run ur code but use a debounce because if the camera is constantly moving, it would run many times therefore potentially causing ur client to lag, but it all depends on the code tbh

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You could try something like this. (within a local script)

It will detect rotation and position updates
(if you only want to detect position then use cam.CFrame.Position instead)

local cam = game.Workspace.CurrentCamera
local oldPos = CFrame.new(0,0,0)
local stopped=false

-- each frame the camera will either move, stop, or do nothing.
game:GetService("RunService").RenderStepped:Connect(function()
    if(cam.CFrame ~= oldPos) then
        print("MOVED")
        oldPos = camera.CFrame
        stopped=false
    else
        if(stopped==false) then
            stopped=true
            print("STOPPED")
        end
    end
end)
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