Problem facing camera to part lookvector

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#1

Hey devforum, I made a plane and I am trying to loop the camera to face where the plane is facing, but this is happening:

https://gyazo.com/a092c2f661a2daa36dd134de408089a1

This is how I am doing it:

camera.CFrame = CFrame.new(camera.CFrame.Position, planeModel.Body.CFrame.LookVector)

Thanks for reading.

#2

For CFrame.new(arg1,arg2) to work, you will need the second argument to be the look at a point in terms of the world.

local camPos = camera.CFrame.Position
local lookVector = planeModel.Body.CFrame.LookVector
camera.CFrame = CFrame.new(camPos,camPos+lookVector)

Here is the vector diagram I drew for a different problem with a fly script but a similar scenario with vector maths to obtain the lookAt point.

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#3

Thanks, it fixed it. But I have another doubt, is there any way of simulating a body gyro? I want the camera to turn smoothly.

#4

If you want the camera to turn smoothly then that means you need to generate intermediate CFrame using lerping which can be done like so separating position and rotation of a CFrame and lerping the current CFrame rotation towards the goal CFrame rotation.

local camPos = camera.CFrame.Position
local lookVector = planeModel.Body.CFrame.LookVector

local goalCFrame = CFrame.new(camPos,camPos+lookVector)

local lerpToGoalCFrame = camera.CFrame:lerp(goalCFrame,0.25)--0.25 can be anything you want
local rotationOnlyOfLerp = lerpToGoalCFrame-lerpToGoalCFrame.Position

camera.CFrame = CFrame.new(camPos)*rotationOnlyOfLerp
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