How to make player move backwards?

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#1

I have made a camera system that will offset the camera at a certain distance. A third person camera, but when I try to move backwards the player just spins around. I want the player to look in the same direction and just walk backwards. How can I do this?

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#2

You can turn off Humanoid’s “AutoRotate” property.

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#3

The character’s move direction is determined by the camera angle. How do you set the camera’s angle?

#4

Offset it by looking in the same direction as the HumanoidRootPart and putting it back relative to rootpart by -10 and 5 left.

#5

Using relative vectors to position a camera will result in that happening. You’ll need to use absolute vectors.

#6

I have never heard of “Absolute vectors”, could you give a link to an article or explain?

#7

What I meant to say was to use world space, not object space. Not a LookVector, UpVector, or anything like that. This article covers world space and object space. Here’s a demonstration;

local RunService = game:GetService("RunService");
local hrp; --HumanoidRootPart;
local camera = workspace.CurrentCamera;

local offset = CFrame.new(0, 10, 10); --10 studs upwards, 10 studs backwards.

function updateCamera()
    camera.CFrame = hrp.CFrame * offset; --This will position the camera based on the offset
end
RunService:BindToRenderStep(updateCamera);
#8

Wait so multiplying instead of adding achieves the same result? Huh, I never knew that. Also you do not have to add semicolon when working in lua;

#9

I don’t just program in lua, it’s just a reflex I’ve developed when working with other languages.

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