Question regarding camera manipulation

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1

Hey developers.
How would I be able to do a locked first-person camera view of a moving part? Ask questions if you need more information!! :D

2

You could just set the CameraType to Scriptable, set the CFrame to the Part, then detect when the Part moves using a RunService .RenderStepped loop perhaps?

local Cam = workspace.CurrentCamera
local RunService = game:GetService("RunService")
local Part = workspace.MovingPart

wait(1) --Adding this cause Camera Module Warning haha funny
Cam.CameraType = Enum.CameraType.Scriptable

RunService.RenderStepped:Connect(function()
    Cam.CFrame = Part.CFrame
end)

Keeping in mind that you are only able to access the Local Player’s Camera using a LocalScript, so it should belong inside StarterPlayerScripts for it to work

3

gotcha, and i can just hook these up to functions if i wanted to switch views?

4

You could set the CameraType back to “Custom” which would send it back to where the Character’s Camera should be I believe

5

I meant between different moving parts, haha. sorry about the unclear message.

6

Ah I gotcha

Well, it would depend on the scenario you could be going for but say you wanted to switch between 2 MovingParts every 3 seconds or so, we could do something like this:

local Cam = workspace.CurrentCamera
local RunService = game:GetService("RunService")
local Part = workspace.MovingPart
local Part2 = workspace.MovingPart2

wait(1) --Adding this cause Camera Module Warning haha funny
Cam.CameraType = Enum.CameraType.Scriptable

while true do
    Cam.CFrame = Part.CFrame
    wait(3)
    Cam.CFrame = Part2.CFrame
    wait(3)
end

You could just encase some kind of loop so that it keeps switching in-between mparts

7

Gotcha, thanks! Helped a lot. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: