Need help, camera turns 180 degrees incorrectly

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#1

Hello,

I’m trying to rotate the camera 180 degrees, it works but theres an issue…

The camera inverts when doing so, i.e. If you look up when doing a 180 turn the camera will end up looking down instead of maintaining the correct position.

Script:

userInputService.InputBegan:Connect(function(input, gameProcessed)
	if gameProcessed then return end

	if input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.Z then
		local currentCFrame = currentCamera.CFrame
		local upVector = currentCFrame.UpVector
		local newLookVector = -currentCFrame.LookVector
		currentCamera.CFrame = CFrame.lookAt(currentCFrame.Position, currentCFrame.Position + newLookVector, upVector)
	end
end)

Video:

#3

You are inverting the LookVector by doing -currentCFrame.LookVector, that inverts ALL of it’s angles. If you only want to rotate the camera 180 degrees around the Y axis, you can create a rotation matrix and multiply your camera cframe with it.

local yRotation = CFrame.Angles(0, math.rad(180), 0)

currentCamera.CFrame = currentCFrame * yRotation

Although i am not entirely sure that this is what you are looking for, could you perhaps give an example of what should happen when you press Z?

#4

In all seriousness is the problem the fact that your controls are inverted, or the fact that your camera flips the other way?

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#5

Here what the outcome should be (note: this was done with a custom camera thats why it works here):

#6

bruh, nvm I was editing the mobile keybind instead of the pc one lol

#7

I got this, in First-Person it looks alright, but in Third-Person it is pretty weird:

local currentCamera = workspace.CurrentCamera
local userInputService = game:GetService("UserInputService")
local TweenService = game:GetService("TweenService")
local TSInfo = TweenInfo.new(0.5, Enum.EasingStyle.Sine, Enum.EasingDirection.Out)
local TweenIsPlaying = false
userInputService.InputBegan:Connect(function(input, gameProcessed)
	if gameProcessed or TweenIsPlaying then return end

	if input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.Z then
		local currentCFrame = currentCamera.CFrame
		--local upVector = currentCFrame.UpVector
		local newLookVector = -currentCFrame.LookVector
		TweenIsPlaying = true
		local Tween = TweenService:Create(currentCamera, TSInfo, {CFrame = CFrame.lookAlong(currentCFrame.Position, newLookVector)})
		Tween:Play()
		Tween.Completed:Once(function()
			TweenIsPlaying = false
		end)
	end
end)

LookAlong is basically not looking at a position, but instead looking at the same direction of a Vector.

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