How to imitate server camera rotation

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#1

Im trying to make script that does exactly what the server camera does so when you hold right click the camera rotates around. So far I have a script that kinda does this but its really wonky.

Desired Output:

What I have currently:

Script:

local plr = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local uis = game:GetService("UserInputService")
local rs = game:GetService("RunService")
local cam = workspace.CurrentCamera
local mouse = plr:GetMouse()

cam.CameraType = Enum.CameraType.Scriptable
cam.CFrame = workspace.CameraPart.CFrame

mouse.Button2Down:Connect(function()
	uis.MouseBehavior = Enum.MouseBehavior.LockCurrentPosition
end)
mouse.Button2Up:Connect(function()
	uis.MouseBehavior = Enum.MouseBehavior.Default
end)

function updatecam()
	local delta = uis:GetMouseDelta()
	
	local x = delta.X
	local y = delta.Y

	cam.CFrame = cam.CFrame * CFrame.Angles(math.rad(-y),math.rad(-x),math.rad(0))
end

rs:BindToRenderStep("MeasureMouseMovement",Enum.RenderPriority.Input.Value,updatecam)
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#2

You can usually very simply solve this issue by replacing CFrame.Angles with CFrame.FromEulerAnglesYXZ

The reason this works is because cframe.angles calculates up and down before it calculates side to side, and when you rotate an object up and down first, the side to side is now angled upwards and therefore is angled and gross

FromEulerAnglesYXZ calculates side to side first, hence the YXZ instead of XYZ

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#3

So i replaced
cam.CFrame = cam.CFrame * CFrame.Angles(math.rad(-y),math.rad(-x),math.rad(0))
with
cam.CFrame = cam.CFrame * CFrame.fromEulerAnglesYXZ(math.rad(-y),math.rad(-x),math.rad(0))

its still doing the same thing

#4

There was another small underlying problem I overlooked
The up down was still being accounted for because you were just multiplying the angle on

This code should work:

local plr = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local uis = game:GetService("UserInputService")
local rs = game:GetService("RunService")
local cam = workspace.CurrentCamera
local mouse = plr:GetMouse()

cam.CameraType = Enum.CameraType.Scriptable
cam.CFrame = workspace.CameraPart.CFrame

mouse.Button2Down:Connect(function()
	uis.MouseBehavior = Enum.MouseBehavior.LockCurrentPosition
end)
mouse.Button2Up:Connect(function()
	uis.MouseBehavior = Enum.MouseBehavior.Default
end)

local tx = 0
local ty = 0
function updatecam()
	local delta = uis:GetMouseDelta()

	tx += delta.X
	ty += delta.Y

	cam.CFrame = workspace.CameraPart.CFrame * CFrame.fromEulerAnglesYXZ(math.rad(-ty),math.rad(-tx),math.rad(0))
end

rs:BindToRenderStep("MeasureMouseMovement",Enum.RenderPriority.Input.Value,updatecam)

Im not sure if its exactly what you want but it should be pretty easy to do whatever you want with it, its easier to clamp now also if you want to do that

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#5

This is exactly what I was trying to do thanks :smiley:

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