Trouble clamping camera

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#1

Hello there. I made my own camera script for a game I am making.

Long story short, I don’t know how to clamp the rotation axis so that it face upside down.

Here is a clip of how it currently looks like.

Let me load another one…

I have tried one method. Storing the mouse delta in a variable then simply stopping adding movement if that variable gets over 89 and -89. However that doesn’t work when the orientation of the character is different.

In other words I need to clamp the cameras rotation relative to the players body.

One other thing. I did try setting it using the ToWorldSpace method and instead using it like that however it seemed that the camera would rotate around the player if it rotated. I do not want this.

Any help is appreciated.

Here is the script I currently have as of now.

-- This is run every frame
local function UpdateCamera(DeltaTime)
    local MouseDelta = UserInputService:GetMouseDelta() * GameSettings.MouseSensitivity
	CameraRotation = CameraRotation + MouseDelta --  this was the variable I used previously to do the clamping.
	
	CameraRotationMatrix *= CFrame.new(0,0,0,rad(MouseDelta.Y),rad(MouseDelta.X),0,qW)
	
	SubjectPosition = SubjectPosition:Lerp(
		Character.PrimaryPart.Position,
		DeltaTime * 5
	)
	Camera.CFrame =  CFrame.lookAt(
		Camera.CFrame.Position:Lerp(
			Character.PrimaryPart.Position+(CameraRotationMatrix.LookVector * -CameraDistance),
			DeltaTime * 2
		),
		SubjectPosition,
		Camera.CFrame.UpVector:Lerp(
			CameraRotationMatrix.UpVector,
			DeltaTime * 3
		)
	)
end
#2

I made something like this before, It was a long time ago but I can go back and look at my code to see what you have wrong.

#3

The rotations of the camera are fine. I like them like that. However, I would like to know if there is a way I can clamp the movement of this camera relative to the Character.

This video is better frame rate

Currently it can go anywhere.

#4

Never dealt with anything like that before, This might be able to help you

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#5

Thanks for that post. It might work. I have to try it out first. I will see if this works and if so thanks.

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#6

If it does not work get back to me

#7

Have you found the answer?

I can’t seem to clamp my camera on the X or the Y Axis.

I've tried ToWorldSpace, XVector.X, Difference Between Head.CFrame and CurrentCamera.CFrame (closest I've gotten to get correct difference between camera and head, still read only) 
self.Vector2_CameraRotation			+=	Service_UserInputService:GetMouseDelta() * self.number_CameraMouseRotateSpeed --Anti Invert
				
local cameraRotationCFrame			=	CFrame.Angles(0, self.Vector2_CameraRotation.X, 0) * CFrame.Angles(self.Vector2_CameraRotation.Y, 0, 0)
				
game.Workspace.CurrentCamera.CFrame	=	cameraRotationCFrame + Player_Local.Character.Head.Position

Same problem as yours

On the output you can see the difference between Head and Camera