How would I make this camera effect? | SNaJ II

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Hey! I’m in the middle of making a FNaF styled game, and found a really cool feature on another game. I’m asking any scripture on how I’d make this:

https://gyazo.com/0009631dd0d88d02e5e63f4064d83df7

Notice how the camera moves with the mouse? that’s my question!
Thank you!

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You can use RunService | Roblox Creator Documentation to position the camera every frame. Rotate it from some base rotation, based on the Mouse | Roblox Creator Documentation position.

Or, you could make the camera Camera | Roblox Creator Documentation Scriptable, and just rotate it whenever the mouse moves.

When I say “rotate it”, I mean change its CFrame.

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How would I do this? (Not saying provide the script, just provide a few more steps.) Sorry, I’m not the best scripter when it comes to the camera.

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Most of those links have pretty detailed examples of different ways to rotate the camera.

But the second way, with a Scriptable camera, goes something like:

  1. Set the CameraType to Scriptable.
  2. Determine your “starting” CFrame. This could just be a part you place where you want the camera to be, and you can do local startCFrame = workspace.Part.CFrame or something.
  3. Bind a function to the Mouse.Move event that…
  4. Determines the offset of the mouse from the middle of the screen (like Mouse.X - halfTheScreenWidth), and…
  5. Sets the Camera.CFrame to startCFrame * CFrame.Angles(0, SOME_NUMBER * mouseOffset / halfTheScreenWidth, 0)
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