Using TweenService to jerk camera rotation affecting camera's position as well

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#1

Hi, I’m making a camera shake effect for some guns using TweenService and I’ve come into a problem: My method affects the Camera’s position, which I do not want. What I want to do is to ONLY rotate the camera’s CFrame and leave the position unaffected.

Here’s the code sample below (X, Y, Z are all just angle values to shake the camera)

local TweenService = game:GetService("TweenService")
local Info = TweenInfo.new(0.075, Enum.EasingStyle.Quad, Enum.EasingDirection.Out, 0, true, 0)
game.ReplicatedStorage.RemoteEvents.CameraShake.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(X, Y, Z)
	local Goal = {}
	
	Goal.CFrame = workspace.CurrentCamera.CFrame * CFrame.Angles(X, Y, Z)
	local Tween = TweenService:Create(workspace.CurrentCamera, Info, Goal)
	Tween:Play()
end)

I’ve tried several solutions, but they don’t work. Here’s my changes and results:

Fix: Using the above code
Result: Rotation works perfectly, but the position gets offset for a moment (I’m using a First-Person ViewModel, so I think the Tween is what’s making it offset like that)

Fix: Changing Goal.CFrame to Goal.CFrame.Rotation and deleting workspace.CurrentCamera.CFrame so it’s only the CFrame.Angles part remaining.
Result: Gives an error stating ‘attempt to index nil with “Rotation”’. Apparently I can’t use that property of CFrame as a goal in a Tween array.

Fix: Everything same as code sample, but I only left the CFrame.Angles part alone.
Result: Camera’s position goes to the origin of the world, screwing up everything entirely.

I’m out of ideas, can someone help me?
Thanks

#2

You could probably use something like this:

local Info = TweenInfo.new(0.075, Enum.EasingStyle.Quad, Enum.EasingDirection.Out, 0, true, 0)
local Goal = {Vector3.new(rotation values)}

local Tween = TweenService:Create(workspace.CurrentCamera.Rotation, Info, Goal)
#3

That just gives me the error “unable to cast to dictionary” on the line where I create the tween.

#4

Try this (I edited @BriefYayyayyay code)

local TweenService = game:GetService("TweenService")

local Info = TweenInfo.new(0.075, Enum.EasingStyle.Quad, Enum.EasingDirection.Out, 0, true, 0)
local Goal = {CFrame.Rotation = Vector3.new(rotation values)}

local Tween = TweenService:Create(workspace.CurrentCamera, Info, Goal)
#5

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Gives a syntax error. It disappeared when I put == instead of =, but then it gave me the same error, “unable to cast to dictionary”.

By the way, X, Y and Z are all math.rad(random number) values, rather than normal numbers (sorry if this is important information, I forgot to mention it earlier)

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#6 
Camera.CFrame = CFrame.new(Camera.CFrame.Position) * CFrame.fromOrientation(0, math.pi, 0) --Rotate camera 180 degrees around the Y-axis.
#7

That doesn’t help, it just focuses the camera onto that specific rotational CFrame, plus the camera is still stuck when the tween plays.

#8

Changing Camera Rotation WITHOUT Affecting Position

You may want to fix your title to accurately represent that.

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