Security Camera following mouse

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#1

I have security cameras which players can toggle through, when they are on a camera i want to give them the ability to pan around, but only to a certain limit so the camera does not look 180 degrees behind or too far down. I would like a slight delay.

I cannot find a way which both has the panning feature and the limit.

I am using runservice to update the camera, I have been using lerp to smoothly move the camera but I do not know if it is the best. I have been using math.clamp for the limits.

My main problem is what to do with these pieces.

Example of current code without limits.

function camera_pan:follow_mouse(cam:Part)

	runservice_connection = RunService.RenderStepped:Connect(function()

		local mouse_p = player:GetMouse().Hit
		
		local look_at_rotation = CFrame.lookAt(cam.Position, mouse_p.Position)
		
		local target_rotation = cam.CFrame:Lerp(look_at_rotation, 0.1)
		cam.CFrame = target_rotation
		workspace.CurrentCamera.CFrame = cam.CFrame
	end)
end

side note: Iā€™m not sure if i like lerp as the speed of the camera changes depending on mouse distance. I just want it to be smooth. Like a rainbow-six-siege camera.

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#2

look into math.clamp() and add an if statement if a rotation exceeds your limit.