How to flip the players camera?

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#1

I’m trying to make a Baldi’s Basic’s fan-game on Roblox and was trying to recreate the camera flipping from the original game. Basically, whenever the player holds down space, the camera turns around and flips to the opposite direction the player is facing. The player’s movement isn’t affected and holding down W while flipping the camera will make the player continue to move in the same direction, essentially moving backwards. I’ve tried to also attach a video demostrating this.
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#2

Upon flipping your camera CFrame call something like Humanoid:Move( direction here, based on HumanoidRootPart.CFrame.LookVector OR Humanoid.MoveDirection ), keep track of MoveDirection changes and edit them until player will release spacebar button

#3

Place this script inside a LocalScript in StarterPlayerScripts:

local UserInputService = game:GetService("UserInputService")
local RunService = game:GetService("RunService")
local Players = game:GetService("Players")

local player = Players.LocalPlayer
local camera = workspace.CurrentCamera
local isCameraFlipped = false

-- Updates the camera to flip it around the player's direction
local function updateCamera()
    if not player.Character or not player.Character:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart") then
        return
    end

    local rootPart = player.Character.HumanoidRootPart
    local playerCFrame = rootPart.CFrame

    if isCameraFlipped then
        -- Flip the camera 180 degrees
        camera.CFrame = CFrame.new(camera.CFrame.Position, playerCFrame.Position - playerCFrame.LookVector * -1)
    else
        -- Reset the camera to face forward
        camera.CFrame = CFrame.new(camera.CFrame.Position, playerCFrame.Position + playerCFrame.LookVector)
    end
end

-- Handle input events
UserInputService.InputBegan:Connect(function(input, gameProcessed)
    if gameProcessed then return end
    if input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.Space then
        isCameraFlipped = true
        updateCamera()
    end
end)

UserInputService.InputEnded:Connect(function(input, gameProcessed)
    if gameProcessed then return end
    if input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.Space then
        isCameraFlipped = false
        updateCamera()
    end
end)

-- Keep updating the camera while the spacebar is held
RunService.RenderStepped:Connect(function()
    if isCameraFlipped then
        updateCamera()
    end
end)
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