How to Make a Player's Camera Face a Certain Direction?

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#1

How do I make the player’s camera be facing the same way that the character itself if facing? For my obby, players are spawned in at a checkpoint and their character will have the same orientation as the checkpoint (note that the checkpoint is a BasePart and not a SpawnLocation!). However, even though their character’s orientation is the same as the checkpoint, the camera does not move to behind the player when the character’s orientation has been changed.

So basically, I want the camera to be behind the player when they spawn in, but I want the players to still be able to freely move around their camera after they’ve spawned in.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

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#2

You can add this in the StarterCharacterScripts:

local Run = game:GetService("RunService")
local Character = game.Players.LocalPlayer.Character

Run.RenderStepped:Connect(function()
  local CharCF = Character.PrimaryPart.CFrame
  local CamLook = workspace.CurrentCamera.CFrame.LookVector *100
  Character:SetPrimaryPartCFrame(CharCF.p,Vector3.new(CamLook.X,CharCF.p.Y,CamLook.Z)

end)

Hope this helps! :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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#3

That script does nothing and just keeps producing errors.

Thanks anyways.

#4

If anyone could tell me how to solve this problem I’d be very grateful!

#5

This could work:

local Character = script.Parent
local Camera = workspace.CurrentCamera
local RunService = game:GetService("RunService")

Camera.CameraSubject = Character.Head
Camera.CameraType = Enum.CameraType.Attach

local function OnUpdate()
	if Character and Character:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
		Camera.CFrame = CFrame.new(Character.Head.Position) * CFrame.new(0,0,10)
	end
end

RunService:BindToRenderStep("Camera",Enum.RenderPriority.Camera.Value, OnUpdate)
#6

Try a adding LocalScript to StarterCharacterScripts & put this code inside of it:

wait()
workspace.CurrentCamera.CameraType = Enum.CameraType.Scriptable
workspace.CurrentCamera.CFrame = CFrame.new(workspace.CurrentCamera.CFrame.Position,script.Parent:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart").CFrame.LookVector)
workspace.CurrentCamera.CameraType = Enum.CameraType.Custom

What this will do is it checks the HumanoidRootPart’s direction its looking & apply the same to the camera.
for example if it’s looking directly at Z+, then the camera’s LookVector will be 0,0,1

I haven’t tested this so if anything doesn’t work, try adding .Unit after the LookVector on the third line

#7

This changes the camera position but it does not change it to be behind the player.

#8

Please dont use wait(), you can just do

local character = game.Players.LocalPlayer.Character or game.Players.LocalPlayer.CharacterAdded:Wait()
-- code

To wait for the character to load in.

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