How to separate camera and player movement?

[James351035]

I wanted to make a 3rd person game, but I’m having an issue.
See, I want the player to move in the direction based on the keys they press, and not move towards the camera direction.

What I mean:

In the video, the player is moving towards the camera as it rotates. I don’t want that to happen.

What I want:

Uncharted™ 4 Multiplayer Gameplay

In this Uncharted 4 gameplay, Nathan moves in the direction that the left joystick goes. His camera moves separately with his right joystick.

I want to achieve what I see in the Uncharted 4 gameplay video, but I can’t find anything online that can tell me how.

[raptors_cool (ThatOneDeveloper)]

Im not quite sure what you mean… The players move in the direction corresponding to WASD, the players don’t normally walk towards the camera? Anyways, roblox has many camera modes in the settings when you click ESC, not sure how, but I think it’s possible to limit it to one mode only.

[James351035]

I get what you mean, but I literally have no better way to explain it, which is probably the reason I couldn’t find many topics about this

[Hazelfluff]

My only question about this would be how would the player then control the camera if its not going along with the traditional wasd movement?

In roblox the camera does follow the character but you can change this in the settings. After some time the camera will re align with the back of the character but Im assuming you and tweak this with a script.

There are several different camera modes in the settings, which one is the closest to what you want?

[NoobInAFishTank]

i kinda understand, like console camera control right, or am i wrong

[Crygen54 (Crygen)]

Character movements are always based on the camera’s look direction. If they were not, rotating the camera by 180° would result in inverted controls (W / Up joystick to go backward), leading to very confusing and frustrating gameplay as you would never know in which direction your character will be going, and i doubt it is the case in the Uncharted video you shown.

[dthecoolest]

Here are two topics on it

The one below uses CFrame to convert walk direction from UIS into world space. The function is called getWalkDirectionWorldSpace()

Simulating smoother character movement?

EDIT EDIT EDIT :warning:EDIT There’s a bug in the code I posted. It’s quite easy to fix, see what it is and how to fix it here: Thanks to @dthecoolest for catching it Now here’s the rest of the comment: Can’t tell if you want character to accelerate slower without changing physical properties, or if you want to normally with changed physical properties. EDIT: nvm, figured it out Making proper reply I would make a custom mov…

The one below forks the control module to force the camera CFrame to point in a certain direction towards an object.

Camera offset throws off player movement

Nvm got really interested in the problem. Here is a proof of concept local script which forks over the player module and changes the function local ControlModule = require(game.StarterPlayer.StarterPlayerScripts.PlayerModule):GetControls() local VRService = game:GetService("VRService") local UserInputService = game:GetService("UserInputService") local target = workspace.Steve --replace target to your liking local function getGamepadRightThumbstickPosition(): Vector3 local state =…

[James351035]

The player controls the camera as if they had their mouse constantly locked on right-click, which means that the camera will rotate with the mouse.

[Hazelfluff]

ok, what if you made wasd move the character and the arow keys move the camera (or vice versa).

My only question would be, what controls what “forward” is. If the camera is constantly behind the character, forward is always going to be away from the camera. If the player moves with 0 reference to the camera, where is forward?

You could lock forward to north and that might work (probably differently than shown here) but the players will have to lean how to use the controls (might require a tutorial, some practice and a lot more coordination that some have previously had, however, this isnt a problem.)

as a 100% pc player (with no controller), I have no idea how this movement system feels. From what it looks like, the movement is influenced by the camera, except for when you move it (camera) while you are moving. If you move the camera while you are already moving the controls “lock” and “forward” stays the same as it was before you moved the camera. Then after you stop moving, the “forward” is whatever direction is currently away from your camera. (I am probably wrong)