Summon Object to Camera Plugin

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Very often in development I find myself having to bring an object to my camera’s position, but there’s no built-in way to do this quite simple task, so I set out to solve it.

To use, first set a shortcut for it in the studio shortcuts menu. In the unlikely event this plugin updates in the future, you may need to rebind your shortcuts. This plugin’s shortcuts can be found by searching up “camera” in the search bar.

If you don’t know where to find the shortcuts menu, go to the top left of your studio window and go to File > Advanced > Customize Shortcuts...

There’s two shortcuts, one that brings selected objects to the camera and preserves the object’s rotation, and another that will pivot all selected objects to the camera’s cframe.

Plugin Source, if interested 
--[[ Variables ]]--
-- Services --
local ChangeHistoryService = game:GetService("ChangeHistoryService")
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local Selection = game:GetService("Selection");
local StudioService = game:GetService("StudioService");

-- Plugin --
local isDebugEnabled = false;

--[[ Functions ]]--
local oldPrint = print;

local function print(...)
	if (isDebugEnabled) then
		oldPrint(...);
	end
end

function onSummon(preserveRotation)
	local recording = ChangeHistoryService:TryBeginRecording("EllieCameraSummon");
	if (not recording) then
		warn("EllieCameraSummon: error while trying to begin recording!");
		return;
	end
	
	local cam = workspace.CurrentCamera;
	local camCF = cam.CFrame;
	local camPosCF = CFrame.new(camCF.Position);

	local total = 0;
	for _, v in next, Selection:Get() do
		if (not v:IsA("PVInstance") or v == workspace) then
			continue;
		end
		
		if (preserveRotation) then
			v:PivotTo(camPosCF * v:GetPivot().Rotation);
		else
			v:PivotTo(camCF);
		end
		
		total += 1;
	end
	
	print("Summoned " .. total .. " object(s) to the camera!");
	print("Rotation preserved: " .. tostring(preserveRotation));
	
	ChangeHistoryService:FinishRecording(recording, Enum.FinishRecordingOperation.Commit);
end

function checkUser()
	local user = StudioService:GetUserId();
	if (user == 150006422) then
		isDebugEnabled = true;
	end
end

function init()
	local function onBasicSummonWrapper()
		onSummon(true);
	end
	
	local function onAlternateSummonWrapper()
		onSummon(false);
	end
	
	local basicSummonAction = plugin:CreatePluginAction("EllieBasicCameraSummonAction", "Summon to Camera", "Summons selected objects to the camera's position, preserving rotation", "rbxassetid://13085201731", true);
	basicSummonAction.Triggered:Connect(onBasicSummonWrapper);
	
	local altSummonAction = plugin:CreatePluginAction("EllieAlternateCameraSummonAction", "Alt. Summon to Camera", "Summons selected objects to the camera's CFrame, does *not* preserve rotation", "rbxassetid://13085201731", true);
	altSummonAction.Triggered:Connect(onAlternateSummonWrapper);
	
	checkUser();
	
	print("CameraSummon initialized");
end
init();
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