Professional Camera Zoom

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#1

Hey fellow developers!

I am trying to figure out how to make a simple professional manual camera zoom in Roblox that is used with keyboard control (ex. m - zoom in | n - zoom out).

I am not taking about the default camera zoom, rather ones you see in a President’s Oval Office address, or anything really.

This video shows what I mean (Notice how the camera zooms in slowly to Mr. Obama).

I believe all this takes is a simple FOV change, but I do not know how to script that out or even forward it into a working state.

Anything helps, thank you!

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#2

Here is a little function I just made:

local tweenService = game:GetService('TweenService')

function zoom(speed, factor)
	local tweenInfo = TweenInfo.new(
		speed,
		Enum.EasingStyle.Linear,
		Enum.EasingDirection.In,
		0,
		false,
		0
	)
	local tween = tweenService:Create(workspace.CurrentCamera, tweenInfo, {FieldOfView = factor}):Play()
end

To call it you just do:

zoom(5, 30) -- 5 is the speed and 30 is the FOV value

Hope this helped!

EDIT: do this to try it and make sure its a local script in StarterGui:

local tweenService = game:GetService('TweenService')

function zoom(speed, factor)
	local tweenInfo = TweenInfo.new(
		speed,
		Enum.EasingStyle.Linear,
		Enum.EasingDirection.In,
		0,
		false,
		0
	)
	local tween = tweenService:Create(workspace.CurrentCamera, tweenInfo, {FieldOfView = factor}):Play()
end

wait(10)

zoom(5, 30)
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