Orbital Camera around Character

[Twav3 (TheBlackwave)]

You can write your topic however you want, but you need to answer these questions:

1. What do you want to achieve?
   I’ve been working on a game for a long time, however, I’ve remade it several times. The system I’m still trying to create today is a custom camera system similar to the one in the video I’ll attach. I have the current code for my camera script, but it is somewhat “abstract” and I find it difficult to fix it, because it was created a long time ago, together with help from a friend of mine.

2. What is the issue?
   The problem is necessarily in the code and possibly in the logic of the code, but in the current code, when I use Lock On on an enemy and then move with my character, the camera moves in a strange way. In addition to sometimes, almost rarely, the code “breaks”, strangely.

3. What solutions have you tried so far?
   Redo the code several times to look as close to the result I want to achieve. I need someone who has experience with camera manipulation, as to this day I am very “average” in this area.

Expectation (What I’m trying to achieve): Watch Camera System (Devil May Cry 5) | Streamable

Reality (What it looks like currently): Watch Camera System (Now) | Streamable

I can send the code if needed, but in case there is a similar topic or ideas on how to achieve my expectations, please, let me know.

[rocketman392 (WaterMelonMan)]

You seem to have a good start. It would help if you sent us your code! Ain’t much we can do without it lol

in this post he seems to have gotten a crude start but yours seems much better RN anyways

Lock-On camera smoothly transition from one enemy to another

So I am making a “Lock-On” Camera for my sword combat system. When the player press Ctrl on there keyboard, the camera automatically point and lock toward the nearest enemy. Which is working fine right now. The problem is that when the camera start to switch between the last nearest enemy to the new one, the camera will just cut and immediately points toward the new enemy . I want the camera to smoothly transition and not just cut and immediately points toward the new enemy. So if you have any …

[Bovious]

Try offsetting the camera backwards relative to itself, it looks as if it zooms in too close when the player walks around. You could also try lerping the camera when the move direction of the humand changes, to really ease into the frankly almost jarring camera movement. Id focus on zooming out when the player moves and easing camera transitions when the player moves. Youd also need to make sure the character isnt looking opposite to the camera by checking both their dot products because the camera looks fine from that angle.