How can i center my camera on my player?

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So I have a script that moves my camera in the direction of my mouse but the camera can only move a certain distance away. Right now, the camera is centered on the origin of the screen and the mouse moves the camera correctly but I cant figure out how to center the camera on the player instead of the origin. Sorry if this is a common sense, I started programming recently.

 using System.Collections;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using UnityEngine;
 
 public class CameraScript : MonoBehaviour
 {
 
     //The speed of the movement
     public float cameraSpeed = 0.5f;
     public float speedOfIncrease = 3;
 
     //Min and max-values the camera can move to.
     private float MAX_X = 6;
     private float MIN_X = -6;
     private float MAX_Y = 3;
     private float MIN_Y = -3;
 
 
     //The current x and y movement of the cursor
     private float Xmouse;
     private float Ymouse;
 
 
     void Update()
     {
 
         Xmouse = Input.GetAxis("Mouse X");
         Ymouse = Input.GetAxis("Mouse Y");
 
         Vector3 v3 = Input.mousePosition;
         v3.z = transform.position.z;
         v3 = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(v3);
 
         Vector3 newPos = transform.position;
         newPos.x += Xmouse * speedOfIncrease;
         newPos.y += Ymouse * speedOfIncrease;
 
         //Making sure that the camera doesn't exceed the min/max values it's allowed to move to!
         if (newPos.x > MAX_X)
         {
             newPos.x = MAX_X;
         }
         if (newPos.x < MIN_X)
         {
             newPos.x = MIN_X;
         }
 
         if (newPos.y > MAX_Y)
         {
             newPos.y = MAX_Y;
         }
         if (newPos.y < MIN_Y)
         {
             newPos.y = MIN_Y;
         }
 
         //Moves the Camera
         transform.position = Vector3.Lerp(transform.position, newPos, cameraSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
 
 
 
     }
 
 }

Answer 1

Answer by Llama_w_2Ls · Jul 28, 2020 at 11:28 AM

     public Camera MainCam;
     public GameObject player;
 
     private void FixedUpdate()
     {
         MainCam.transform.position = new Vector3(player.transform.position.x, player.transform.position.y, MainCam.transform.position.z);
         //You dont want the camera's z position to be the same as the player, just the x and y.
         //Locks camera position to the centre of the player
     }

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