How would I rotate the camera with the head's rotation?

Help and Feedback Scripting Support
#1

I’m currently attempting to make the camera rotate when the head rotates, like if I make an animation of the head going left and right I want the camera to rotate those ways too. Yet the code keeps giving me an error, help would be appreciated.

local runService = game:GetService("RunService")

local camera = game.Workspace.CurrentCamera

local character = game.Players.LocalPlayer.Character

runService.RenderStepped:Connect(function()
	camera.CFrame.Rotation = character.Head.CFrame.Rotation
end)

Capture

1 Like
#2

Rotation is not settable. In your specific case what you probably want to do is copy the camera’s CFrame exactly

camera.CFrame= character.Head.CFrame

Unless you wanted something more specific?

#3

But if he does this the camera will be in first person

#4

Try this:

local runService = game:GetService("RunService")

local camera = game.Workspace.CurrentCamera

local character = game.Players.LocalPlayer.Character

runService.RenderStepped:Connect(function()
    character.Head.CFrame = CFrame.new(character.Head.Position, character.Head.CFrame.Rotation)
end)
#5

What does that version of CFrame.new do?

#6

Creates a new cframe value with the angles given, just like Vector3.new

#7

That seems useful, I don’t see that in the documentation for CFrame though.

#8

Are you sure? Look again to the documentation.
CFrame

#9

I don’t see any overload of .new() that takes a Vector3 and a CFrame

#10

image
image1920×1082 95.2 KB

#11

That takes three numbers and makes a CFrame with identity rotation and those coordinates. I think I know what you mean though and it would be:
camera.CFrame = character.Head.CFrame - character.Head.Position + camera.CFrame.Position
There’s not a very good constructor for this.

#12

You can use CFrame.new() in so many ways, you can give 3 variables for positioning X, Y, Z or give two variable one Position and one Angle or just give it a Position…

#13

This specific overload doesn’t exist though?

image
image1161×283 34.9 KB

#14

Try CFrame.Angles()

— Word Limit

#15

That didn’t work, it gave me this error:
image

#16

You know what way the head orientation is facing, by taking the head’s orientation. Then just take the head’s lookvector, and make the camera’s orientation the same.

camera.CFrame = head.CFrame - head.CFrame.LookVector*20 -- 20 is the offset in studs, that the camera is away from the head.
#17

CFrame.Rotation is a read-only property, as in it can only be read and not changed like that.
In order to get the rotation of a Cframe you need to use the CFrame:ToOrientation() function

local x, y, z = head.CFrame:ToOrientation() -- Returns the X, Y, Z values of the Rotation