Instead of using Parts to represent CFrames... just use CFrames.
This…
local LAM=game.Workspace.LookAtMe
local FC=game.Workspace.FakeCamera
local MP=game.Workspace.MouseP
mouse.TargetFilter = MP
… becomes this:
local LAM, FC, MP
And this:
MP.CFrame = CFrame.new(mouse.Hit.p) --- where mouse points "MouseP"
LAM.CFrame = playerrootpart.CFrame:Lerp(MP.CFrame, 0.2) --- white brick in the middle "LookAtMe"
FC.CFrame = CFrame.new (LAM.Position + offset) --- part that hovers above white brick "FakeCamera"
--- camera stares at "LookAtMe" from above thanks to the flying "FakeCamera"
camera.CFrame = CFrame.new (FC.Position, LAM.Position)
becomes this:
MP = CFrame.new(mouse.Hit.p) --- where mouse points "MouseP"
LAM = playerrootpart.CFrame:Lerp(MP, 0.2) --- white brick in the middle "LookAtMe"
FC = CFrame.new(LAM.p + offset) --- part that hovers above white brick "FakeCamera"
--- camera stares at "LookAtMe" from above thanks to the flying "FakeCamera"
camera.CFrame = CFrame.new(FC.p, LAM.p)
I would also use much more verbose variable names, but that’s just a matter of coding style.
local DOWN = Vector3.new(0, -1, 0)
local cameraMouseSensitivity = 10
local cameraOffset = Vector3.new(0, 10, 0)
function getMouseScreenPositionCentered()
return Vector2.new(
mouse.X - screenGui.AbsoluteSize.X/2,
mouse.Y - screenGui.AbsoluteSize.Y/2
)
end
function pixelToFraction(pixelV2)
--Turns a coordinate in pixels into a coordinate in some fraction of the size of the screen
return pixelV2 / screenGui.AbsoluteSize
end
function onRenderStep()
if player.Character then
local rootPart = player.Character.HumanoidRootPart
local mouseScreenPos = pixelToFraction( getMouseScreenPositionCentered() )
local cameraPos = cameraOffset + Vector3.new(mouseScreenPos.X, mouseScreenPos.Y) * cameraMouseSensitivity
camera.CFrame = CFrame.new(cameraPos, cameraPos + DOWN)
end
end
seems like you forgot to put 0 in Vector3.new(mouseScreenPos.X, 0 , mouseScreenPos.Y)
and here is a fix for opacity.
return Vector2.new(
mouse.Y + ScreenGui.AbsoluteSize.X/2,
mouse.X - ScreenGui.AbsoluteSize.Y/2)
end
other than that, great knowledge mine, I didn’t know that you can use vector3 to face a certain direction and those functions that translate mouse movement on-screen is just amazing.
I started messing around with everything and figured out that “DOWN” is causing all this trouble. After a while, I found a somewhat working position - local DOWN = Vector3.new(0, -90, -45)
here is the effect
local offset = Vector3.new(0,25,5.35)
local DOWN = Vector3.new(0, -100, -15)
local cameraMouseSensitivity = 20
If you could somehow rotate “DOWN” a bit counter-clockwise it should give you that perfect top-down view but I didn’t find any other way then to just add an angle to it,
darn thing doesn’t want to move with smaller numbers.
Once Again I can’t express how thankfull I am for your help.
Do you mean the walking controls stop working? This is because the default character controller uses the camera’s LookVector to determine which horizontal direction corresponds to each movement direction. When the camera is looking straight up/down, there is no horizontal component to the LookVector so there’s no obvious way of figuring out which direction is forwards just from the LookVector…
…except it seems pretty obvious to us what direction the character should move in, it’s just a small flaw in the default character controller that pretty much never comes up when using the default camera controller, because looking straight up or down is impossible (there’s a +85 / -85 degree limit to looking up/down).
Rotating the camera as little as 10^-7 radians was enough to allow normal walking:
local RunS = game:GetService("RunService")
local DOWN = Vector3.new(0, -1, 0)
local MIN_CAM_ANGLE_FOR_WALKING = 10e-7
local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local character = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local camera = game.Workspace.CurrentCamera
RunS.RenderStepped:Connect(function()
local cameraPos = character.PrimaryPart.Position + Vector3.new(0, 25, 0)
camera.CFrame = CFrame.new(
cameraPos,
cameraPos + DOWN
) * CFrame.Angles(MIN_CAM_ANGLE_FOR_WALKING, 0, 0)
end)
You could also fix the default camera controller (test the game and copy it from the PlayerScripts folder), or make your own from scratch that falls back to using the UpVector to figure out direction in case the LookVector is straight up/down.
Since Robama started sharing this post im gonna leave best version of it here.
-- Made by ThanksRoBama.
-- Explained and polished by Czlopek
local Player = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer
local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local mouse = Player:GetMouse()
local camera = workspace.CurrentCamera
local runService = game:GetService("RunService")
local screenGui = game.StarterGui.ScreenGui
-- here is your template for Vector3 axis (x y z)
local Distance = Vector3.new(0,25,0) -- Distance from player
local Direction = Vector3.new(0,-1,0) -- Direction from which camera will be looking at player
local CameraSensitivity = 20 -- change it if you want that camera to lean further (give it a bigger number)
-- or if want an effect to be more subtle decrease the number. (if you set it as a negative, camera will lean in the opposite direction)
function getMouseScreenPositionCentered()
return Vector2.new(
mouse.X - screenGui.AbsoluteSize.X/2,
mouse.Y - screenGui.AbsoluteSize.Y/2)
end
function pixelToFraction(pixelV2)
--Turns a coordinate in pixels into a coordinate in some fraction of the size of the screen
return pixelV2 / screenGui.AbsoluteSize
end
function onRenderStep()
if player.Character then
local rootPart = player.Character.HumanoidRootPart
local playerposition = player.Character.HumanoidRootPart.Position + Vector3.new(0,0,3) -- sometimes camera will be offset to your character,
-- thats why you need to add few studs to it so it would stay in middle of the screen.
local cameraoffset = Distance + playerposition
local mouseScreenPos = pixelToFraction( getMouseScreenPositionCentered() )
local Axis = Vector3.new(-mouseScreenPos.Y,0,mouseScreenPos.X)
local cameraPos = cameraoffset + Axis * CameraSensitivity
-- depending on what direction you set the camera to be facing remember that you will need to change it accurately to direction of the camera.
-- top down view will have Direction = Vector3.new(0,-1,0) and Axis = Vector3.new(-mouseScreenPos.Y,0,mouseScreenPos.X)
-- side ways Direction = Vector3.new(0,0,-1) Axis = Vector3.new(mouseScreenPos.X,-mouseScreenPos.Y,0)
camera.CFrame = CFrame.new(cameraPos, cameraPos + Direction)
end
end
runService:BindToRenderStep("Camera", Enum.RenderPriority.Camera.Value, onRenderStep)
I strongly suggest using this thing:
it shows what 2 axis you will need to change for it to work.
Script It self should be put in “StarterCharacterScripts”,
this thing.
Sorry for taking so long was busy doing real-life stuff,
So scrip I posted was remade for a 2D Side view camera, that’s why one side goes down-up and the other left-right to fix this you need to change variables called
Help the camera does not change when i move my mouse…
i’ve put the script into the StarterPlayerScripts but it just acts like a top down view camera.
i am not a scripter so i dont really know what to do.
nope it does not even work on a fresh new place it just top down view again…
but after putting pistol model in, the camera would start changing when moving with your mouse but then the top down view is not working.
