[UNSOLVED] Making A Silent Hill 2 Esk Camera

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#1

Sup. I am making a silent hill 2 esk game, and I am working on the camera system and the system I made is not really what I am looking for. So I took to dev forum, and was wondering how I could make something similar to this video?
Here it is:


My code so far:

local RunService = game:GetService("RunService")	

local camera = workspace.CurrentCamera
local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer


local CAMERA_OFFSET = Vector3.new(-1,30,0)
camera.CameraType = Enum.CameraType.Scriptable


local function onRenderStep()

	if player.Character then
		local playerPosition = player.Character.HumanoidRootPart.Position
		local cameraPosition = playerPosition + CAMERA_OFFSET

		camera.CoordinateFrame = CFrame.new(cameraPosition, playerPosition)
	end
end

RunService:BindToRenderStep("Camera", Enum.RenderPriority.Camera.Value, onRenderStep)
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#2

Tried changing the rotation but I couldn’t get it at the right angle.

#4

Update, over the past few days i’ve tried various ways and it still won’t work. I don’t know why but I can’t get the camera to sort of rotate with the player.

#5

Have you tried CFrame.Angles?

#6

I have but I don’t know exactly how to get these angles.

#7

You mean getting the rotation of the camera? Or do you not know how you use CFrame.Angles?

#8

Getting the rotation of the camera similar to the image provided above.

#9

One problem I saw in your script was that you used camera.CoordinateFrame which is deprecated change that to camera.CFrame.

(and i’m working for a solution so the cam can rotate just like u want)

#10

Alright thanks! I’ll just be browsing around for a bit. I’ll change it in a minute.

#11 
local RunService = game:GetService("RunService")	

local camera = workspace.CurrentCamera
local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer

local uis = game:GetService("UserInputService")



local CAMERA_OFFSET = Vector3.new(-1,30,0)
camera.CameraType = Enum.CameraType.Scriptable


local function onRenderStep()

	if player.Character then
		local playerPosition = player.Character.HumanoidRootPart.Position
		local cameraPosition = playerPosition + CAMERA_OFFSET
        uis.InputBegan:Connect(function(input, gameProcessedEvent)
           if input.UserInputType == Enum.UserInputType.KeyBoard then
               if input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.D then
                  camera.CFrame = Vector3.Angles(change this to the rotation you want to have when the player moves to the right)

                  elseif input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.A then
                    camera.CFrame = Vector3.Angles(change this to the rotation you want to have when the player moves to the right)
                 elseif input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.A and input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.W then
camera.CFrame = Vector3.Angles(change this to the rotation you want to have when the player moves to the right)
               end
            end
        end)

		camera.CoordinateFrame = CFrame.new(cameraPosition, playerPosition)
	end
end

RunService:BindToRenderStep("Camera", Enum.RenderPriority.Camera.Value, onRenderStep)

The script isn’t finished completely and i’m not sure if it will work. So where input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.A is do that more times so u have A, A/W, D, A/S, D/S, D/A so when the player presses both A and D it will rotate.

DO NOTICE THAT THERE ARE SOME TYPOS IN IT SO CHANGE IT IN STUDIO CAUSE I MADE IT IN POST.

If it doesn’t works i’ll change it in the hope it will work but maybe the script inspires you so u can do it yourself.

#12

Alright thanks, i’ll go mess around with it and see what turns up!

#13

One thing I am unsure on is where to move the camera on the keycode parts. I am unfamiliar with this and unsure which way it should go or what number’s to put in the parameters.

#14

Do you have any ideas what I could possibly the rotations to?

#15

You mean on X/Y/Z axes? I’m not quite sure but I think the X as or the Y as.

So just like you did here before:

local CAMERA_OFFSET = Vector3.new(-1,30,0)

But then with Vector3.Angles(0,30,0–something like that just try everything with that on the X/Y/Z axes).

#16

I am running into a error on line 20 of

KeyBoard is not a valid member of "Enum.UserInputType"

I am unsure what this would be invalid.

#17

Is this that line:

if input.UserInputType == Enum.UserInputType.KeyBoard then
#18

Correct. That is the line that produced the error for some reason.

#19

I simply have no idea why it says that error. Maybe remove gameProcessedEvent since your not using it. Pretty sure it won’t fix the problem but I might be wrong.

#20

Hmmm. I’ll go see if that is the issue.

#21

Hey, so I removed the line causing that error and it seemed to fix it. However, on this line


				elseif input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.A then
					camera.CFrame = Vector3.Angles(-1, 11.85, 0)

I put the number’s there however I get this error:

Workspace.GrumpyCools.LocalScript:25: attempt to call a nil value

Any idea on how to fix this?