How would I make a FPS style camera?

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#1

I’ve attempted this a few times, but just can’t get it right. I’m trying to make a first person camera like the one in Phantom Forces, how would I do it correctly and efficiently?

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#2

Can you include your code attempt.

#3

All I did was set it to first person and played with camera scripts so the arms were visible when in first person.

#4

Most FPS games don’t use the default Roblox first person camera. Instead they will often use a custom one, whereby you detect the movement delta of the mouse to move the camera (Then update the camera every render-stepped) or something like that.

So an example could be, set the CurrentCamera to scriptable, then connect a function to RenderStepped to set the Camera’s CFrame to the position of the player’s head, then the angle of the camera to where-ever the mouse moves, you can also rotate the character to match the rotation of the camera on the Y axis to help with immersion.

However I believe @EgoMoose did a blog post that is slightly different but could be something you might be interested in here.

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#5

Thanks for linking!

I’ll just add you can find the same post on the devforum as well if that suits your fancy.

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