How to make the Player's Camera look at something but still keep its original position?

[ILoveAvocados002 (Finnardo)]

Hello Everyone!
Right now i’m making a horror game. & i’m trying to figure out how to make the player’s camera look
at something but still keeping its original position.

so basically in my game the player would be driving a car to a gas station,
& at a certain distance it will look at the gas station.

kinda like this video

[5smokin]

You are looking for CFrame.lookAt()
Read about it here: CFrame | Documentation - Roblox Creator Hub

[ILoveAvocados002 (Finnardo)]

I already used CFrame.LookAt() what im trying to get is to make the player’s camera to look at the gas station but also being on the original position (sorry if its a bit confusing)

[5smokin]

you can achieve this by setting the camera’s CFrame to a new CFrame that combines its current position with the look direction towards the gas station. Here’s a basic example:

local camera = workspace.CurrentCamera
local OriginalPosition = camera.CFrame.Position
local GasStationPosition = workspace.Station.Position -- Replace with the real path to your gas station

camera.CFrame = CFrame.lookAt(OriginalPosition, GasStationPosition)

You can put OriginalPosition and camera.CFrame = CFrame.lookAt(OriginalPosition, GasStationPosition) in a loop to keep the current position if the player is moving.

[ILoveAvocados002 (Finnardo)]

Hello! i already found a solution to my problem by welding a part to the character and setting the CFrame of the Player’s camera to the CFrame of the Fake Camera’s CFrame

and also using CFrame.LookAt() so the Fake Camera’s CFrame looks at the Gas Station.

But Thanks for your help!

[ModernWarSciFite (LittleBoy12)]

LocalScript

local player = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer
local camera = workspace.CurrentCamera
local RS = game:GetService("RunService")

local function LookWithCamera(camera, pos)
	--camera.CameraType = Enum.CameraType.Scriptable
	local CameraLook = RS.RenderStepped:Connect(function()
		--camera.CFrame = CFrame.new(player.Character.PrimaryPart.Position + 1.5 * Vector3.yAxis + 1.5 * pos.Unit, pos)
        --camera.CFrame = CFrame.new(player.Character.Head.Position, pos)
		camera.CFrame = CFrame.new(camera.CFrame.Position, pos)
	end)
	return CameraLook	
end


local function CameraLookTriggersHelper(startz, endz, camera, pos)
	local inProgress = false
	local StepFunction
	startz.Touched:Connect(function(otherPart)
		if not inProgress and otherPart.Name == "HumanoidRootPart" then
			if otherPart.Parent == player.Character then
				inProgress = true
				StepFunction = LookWithCamera(camera, pos)
			end
		end
		
	end)
	
	endz.Touched:Connect(function(otherPart)
		if inProgress and otherPart.Name == "HumanoidRootPart" then
			if otherPart.Parent == player.Character then
				inProgress = false
				StepFunction:Disconnect()
				--camera.CameraType = Enum.CameraType.Follow
			end
		end	
	end)
end

local startZone = workspace:WaitForChild("CameraLookStart")
local endZone = workspace:WaitForChild("CameraLookEnd")
local ThingToLookAt = workspace:WaitForChild("Thing")

CameraLookTriggersHelper(startZone, endZone, camera, ThingToLookAt.CFrame.Position)

Use the commented line camera.CFrame = CFrame.new(player.Character.Head.Position, pos) to instead get a first person view