How to manipulate camera with mouse?

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Greetings,

I have created a local script on the camera, but I have no idea how to make the camera move with the mouse.

I need to make Camera System like dota 2, so that when holding MouseButton3 (wheel), so to speak grabbed the camera and moved depending on the position of the mouse.
And I also need that when you point at the edges of the screen, the camera moved depending on what part of the screen is the mouse.

In general, I need help in creating a camera as in Dota 2, I have a ready code just on the camera lock on the player, I need to make of it what is described above, can anyone help me?

My code:

local Character = script.Parent
local Camera = workspace.CurrentCamera

local CurrentFov = 70
local zoom = 25

local Connection2
local CameraSystem = coroutine.wrap(function()

	Connection2 = game:GetService("RunService").RenderStepped:Connect(function()
		Camera.FieldOfView = CurrentFov
		
		if Character then
			if Character:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart") then
				Camera.CFrame =
					CFrame.new(Vector3.new(Character.HumanoidRootPart.Position.X + zoom, Character.HumanoidRootPart.Position.Y + zoom + zoom, Character.HumanoidRootPart.Position.Z + zoom), Character.HumanoidRootPart.Position)
			end
		end
	end)

end)

CameraSystem()
2

I need the camera to always look in the same direction (as in my script), but its position will change

3

Here is the code, it always looks from a positive offset at the character. The camera code is just the RunService stuff, but to get it working you can just put this in a local script in StarterPlayerScripts.

local RunService = game:GetService("RunService")

local Player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local Camera = workspace.CurrentCamera

local CurrentFov = 70
local Zoom = 25

local OffsetVector = Vector3.new(1, 2, 1) * Zoom

Camera.CameraType = Enum.CameraType.Scriptable -- This is important
Camera.FieldOfView = CurrentFov -- You only need to set this once / where it is changed. No need to do it in renderstepped

local CameraConnection = nil 
local function CharacterAdded(Character)
	-- In case of respawn, disconect the old one:
	if CameraConnection then
		CameraConnection:Disconnect()
	end
	-- New camera loop for this character:
	local CameraConnection = RunService.RenderStepped:Connect(function()
		local Root = Character.PrimaryPart
		if Root then -- Effectively the same check
			local CameraPosition = Root.Position + OffsetVector
			local CameraCFrame = CFrame.lookAt(CameraPosition, Root.Position)
			Camera.CFrame = CameraCFrame
			Camera.Focus = CameraCFrame -- It is good to set this too, see the documentation
		end
	end)
end

Player.CharacterAdded:Connect(CharacterAdded)
-- If you load really fast, this might run
if Player.Character then
	CharacterAdded(Player.Character)
end
4

thanks so much for your help, I really appreciate it :slight_smile:
but, I still don’t understand how to move the camera. I think you need to make a tween for OffsetVector. But I don’t understand what numbers to put in to move the camera to the right, left, above and below

5

Do you mean pivot? Like the angle that you are looking from?

6

No, I want to move the camera like in Dota 2.
here is the video, starting at 0:18 seconds, in the video the camera moves in different directions

7

I’m sorry I can’t explain it to you clearly, but I don’t know English very well.