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Why does my camera fail to focus on the player?

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I am attempting to create a "Bird's Eye View" camera. Setting the camera's coordinate frame to above the character's head works properly, but setting the focus does nothing. What am I doing or not doing that prevents my camera from looking straight down onto the player?

The script:

camera = game.Workspace.CurrentCamera
camera.CameraType = "Scriptable"

player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
repeat wait() until player.Character
character = player.Character

game:GetService("RunService").RenderStepped:connect(function()
	wait()
	camera.CFrame = CFrame.new(character.Head.Position + Vector3.new(0,10,0))
	camera.Focus = CFrame.new(character.Head.Position)
end)
Anonymous

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Two problems:

1.

It is camera.CoordinateFrame, not camera.CFrame. I don't know why it is not CFrame.

2.

CFrame has two values; a position value and a rotation value. The rotation value is a Vector3 value, and is called 'LookVector'. For example, the following code would position a part and make it look at the second part.

part.CFrame = CFrame.new(Vector3.new(0,0,0),part2.Position)

So, your code would be the following:

 camera.CFrame = CFrame.new(character.Head.Position + Vector3.new(0,10,0),character.Head.Position)
-- the camera.Focus isn't needed

Also, you may find camera.Interpolate() useful in these circumstances, as it is basically the tweening of cameras.

Hope I helped! Please tell me in the comments if you need more help.

~TDP

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The camera now works as it is supposed to, but I am unable to move my character...

Anonymous#
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You should. It's probably just a studio bug, Try again. Are you running any other pieces of code that may interfere with this?

Anonymous#
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No, just the above as I had it before with the lookVector added to the CFrame of the camera.

Anonymous#
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So, it worked before? Try disabling the camera script and see what happens.

Anonymous#
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The one that's automatically in PlayerScripts? I've already disabled the one I'm messing around with, and the camera goes back to normal, and I can move.

Anonymous#
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I'm not sure, sorry. The code above doesn't change anything to do with the character, I've done this hundreds of times.

Anonymous#
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I found through testing that if I put the camera anywhere but above the player, my player can move. However, when I put it directly above the player (what I need), I can only jump.

Anonymous#
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I think I'm just going to re-script the movement (I probably would have had to for the game eventually anyway). Thanks for all your help!

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