Issue with camera and bodyturning

[DurinzTheThird_2 (Duri)]

I am currently trying to make an OTS system, and I want to make it so the camera lerps with

			local CameraLerp = Camera.CFrame:Lerp(CFrame.new((Character.PrimaryPart.Position - Offset)), 0.025)

with the entire code block being,

RunService:BindToRenderStep("ShiftLock", Enum.RenderPriority.Character.Value, function()
			UserInputService.MouseBehavior = Enum.MouseBehavior.LockCenter


			local _, y = workspace.CurrentCamera.CFrame.Rotation:ToEulerAnglesYXZ()
			
			local BodyLerp = Character.PrimaryPart.CFrame:Lerp(CFrame.new(Character.PrimaryPart.Position) * CFrame.Angles(0,y,0), 0.025)
			local CameraLerp = Camera.CFrame:Lerp(CFrame.new((Character.PrimaryPart.Position - Offset)), 0.025)
			
			Character.PrimaryPart.CFrame = BodyLerp
			Camera.CFrame = CameraLerp
		end) 

The video attached shows the issue itself

My problem is… How could I make it so the player can still move their camera around freely, with the lerp, but also without forcing the player a certain direction to look?

[Downrest (Down)]

It faces one direction because you’re lerping the CFrame to the character’s position converted into CFrame – because a Vector3 is considered as the positional component (not the rotational component).

Meaning, it will always face the direction of (0, 0, -1), proof:

warn(CFrame.new(Character.PrimaryPart.Position).LookVector) -- (-0. -0, -1)

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Instead, you can apply the offset as a CFrame on the camera’s CFrame itself:

RunService:BindToRenderStep("ShiftLock", Enum.RenderPriority.Character.Value, function()
	UserInputService.MouseBehavior = Enum.MouseBehavior.LockCenter


	local _, y = workspace.CurrentCamera.CFrame.Rotation:ToEulerAnglesYXZ()

	local BodyLerp = Character.PrimaryPart.CFrame:Lerp(CFrame.new(Character.PrimaryPart.Position) * CFrame.Angles(0,y,0), 0.025)
	-- i cframe'd ur vector but i recommend just actually making ur offset a cframe
	local CameraLerp = Camera.CFrame:Lerp(Camera.CFrame * CFrame.new(Offset)), 0.025)

	Character.PrimaryPart.CFrame = BodyLerp
	Camera.CFrame = CameraLerp
end)

[DurinzTheThird_2 (Duri)]

you are an absolutely amazing lifesaver, I knew that vector3 was a positional component but I never really knew how to apply it outside of using vector3s, amazing, Thank u.