Hi, I'm making a game and I want it to feel like a Final Fantasy. Like, each scene can have a panning camera or a rotating camera or a stationary camera. The panning camera needs to be able to move diagonally.

The idea is that we can set up a scene, make it look nice and artistic, so the player of the game would have no control over the camera except in that the player can walk out of a scene and the camera would then smoothly transition to a new point.

This is code I already have but it is insufficient:

pragma strict

 var player : Transform;            
 var cameraPointA : Transform;
 var cameraPointB : Transform;
 
 var target : Transform;
 var positionSpeed : float;
 var rotationSpeed : float;
 
 var rotate : boolean;
 var pan : boolean;
 
 function Rotate ()
 {
     Move ();
     while (rotate)
     {
         transform.LookAt(player);
         yield;
     }
 }
 
 function Pan ()
 {
     while (pan)
     {
         transform.position = Vector3.Min(cameraPointB.position, Vector3.Max(cameraPointA.position, player.position));
         yield;
     }
 }
 
 function Move ()
 {
     while(transform.position != target.position || transform.rotation != target.rotation)                // While the camera isn't in position or rotation
     {
         if (!pan)        // If pan is false
         {
             transform.position = Vector3.MoveTowards(transform.position, target.position, positionSpeed);        // Gets into position
         }
         if (!rotate)    // If rotate is false
         {
             transform.rotation = Quaternion.RotateTowards(transform.rotation, target.rotation, rotationSpeed);    // Gets into rotation
         }
         yield;
     }
 }

This is a second script that triggers the previous script:

 #pragma strict
 
 var activeArea : boolean = false;        // Returns if the current area is the active area or not
 var moveCamera : CameraMovement;        // Assigns the script "CameraMovement" to the variable "moveCamera"
 moveCamera = Camera.main.GetComponent(CameraMovement);
 var cameraPosition : GameObject;        // Looks at the current position of the camera
 
 var pointA : Transform;                    // Boundary of Mathf.Clamp
 var pointB : Transform;                    // Boundary of Mathf.Clamp
 
 var panning : boolean;                    // If true, the camera will move to follow the character
 var rotate : boolean;
 
 function OnTriggerEnter(other : Collider)    // When the area is entered
 {
     if (other.gameObject.name == "Player")
     {
         activeArea = true;        // Sets this to the active area
         if (activeArea)            // If this is the active area then execute
         {
             if (panning)        // if panning is true
             {
                 moveCamera.pan = true;
                 moveCamera.cameraPointA = pointA;    // Sets the cameraPoint to pointA transform
                 moveCamera.cameraPointB = pointB;    // Sets the cameraPoint to pointB transform
                 moveCamera.Pan ();            // Runs the function "Determine ()" one the "CameraMovement" script
             }
             else if (rotate)
             {
                 moveCamera.rotate = true;
                 moveCamera.Rotate ();
             }
             else                // Otherwise
             {
                 moveCamera.pan = false;
                 moveCamera.rotate = false;
                 moveCamera.target = cameraPosition.transform;    // Sets the target on "CameraMovement" script to this object
                 moveCamera.Move ();                        // Runs the function "Move()" on the "Camera Movement" script                                
             }
         }
     }
 }
 
 function OnTriggerExit()    // When the area is exited
 {
     activeArea = false;        // Resets this area
 }

UPDATE: The script here has the camera following the player on every axis, which is what I want when panning is active. This script works exactly how I want except for that the player can approach the camera and the camera won't begin to back pedal it's position until it is level with the player (matches it's z co-ordinates)

Any help anyone can offer would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!