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Camera rotation around player while following.
I'm trying to achieve a camera that follows and rotates around the player while allowing the player to do things like rotate in C#. This means that the player and camera need to rotate separately, but I find it impossible to get the camera to rotate if I set it's position to follow the player. I know exactly what the problem with my code is, but I have no idea how to fix it! Please help!
public float turnSpeed = 0.40f;
public Transform player;
void Update()
{
transform.position = new Vector3(player.position.x, player.position.y + 8.0f, player.position.z + 7.0f);
transform.LookAt(player.position);
transform.RotateAround(player.transform.position, Vector3.up, Input.GetAxis("Mouse X") * turnSpeed);
}
The behavior sounds exactly like what you get with the standard $$anonymous$$ouseOrbit script provided by Unity.
Here are a couple of changes that give what I think you want:
using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
public class Orbit : MonoBehaviour {
public float turnSpeed = 4.0f;
public Transform player;
private Vector3 offset;
void Start () {
offset = new Vector3(player.position.x, player.position.y + 8.0f, player.position.z + 7.0f);
}
void LateUpdate()
{
offset = Quaternion.AngleAxis (Input.GetAxis("Mouse X") * turnSpeed, Vector3.up) * offset;
transform.position = player.position + offset;
transform.LookAt(player.position);
}
}
Hello @robertbu please can you tell me how to zoom the camera or make the orbit nearer to the player?
offset = new Vector3(player.position.x, player.position.y + 8.0f, player.position.z + 7.0f); change to offset = new Vector3(10,10,10); that is the zoom
$$anonymous$$ay you explain one thing to me, please? Why does quaternion in line 17 after being multiplied by vector3 becomes vector3? how does it work?
https://answers.unity.com/questions/372371/multiply-quaternion-by-vector3-how-is-done.html
https://answers.unity.com/questions/186252/multiply-quaternion-by-vector.html
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58071118/how-to-multiply-a-quaternion-with-a-vector
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%E2%80%93Rodrigues_formula
Finally I found what I was looking for. I had the same problem and this works brilliantly, not even needed to adapt the code that much. That linecode (#17) makes the difference. I struggled for a long time to make a decent third person camera, and now I have that, thanks a lot for your contribution.
HO HOHOHO Here's how to get the camera to rotate around the X axis or rather over and under the player.
using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
public class Orbit : MonoBehaviour {
public float turnSpeed = 4.0f;
public Transform player;
public float height = 1f;
public float distance = 2f;
private Vector3 offsetX;
private Vector3 offsetY;
void Start () {
offsetX = new Vector3 (0, height, distance);
offsetY = new Vector3 (0, 0, distance);
}
void LateUpdate()
{
offsetX = Quaternion.AngleAxis (Input.GetAxis("Mouse Y") * turnSpeed, Vector3.up) * offsetX;
offsetY = Quaternion.AngleAxis (Input.GetAxis("Mouse Y") * turnSpeed, Vector3.right) * offsetY;
transform.position = player.position + offsetX;
transform.LookAt(player.position);
}
}
So what did you do with offsetY exactly? I dont see it being used besides Quaternion.AngleAxis
He also used "$$anonymous$$ouse Y" for both the x and the Y axis. IF you are gonna help don't mess with people. It is best to just not help at all if you are. All this is going to do is frustrate new developers
i used it too you need this modification of that
public float turnSpeed = 10f; public Transform player;
public float height = 1f;
public float distance = 2f;
private Vector3 offsetX;
private Vector3 offsetY;
void Start () {
offsetX = new Vector3 (0, height, distance);
offsetY = new Vector3 (0, 0, distance);
}
void LateUpdate()
{
offsetX = Quaternion.AngleAxis (Input.GetAxis("Mouse X") * turnSpeed, Vector3.up) * offsetX;
offsetY = Quaternion.AngleAxis (Input.GetAxis("Mouse Y") * turnSpeed, Vector3.right) * offsetY;
transform.position = player.position + offsetX + offsetY;
transform.LookAt(player.position);
}
I tried your suggestion but edited to fit my needs, rotates camera around public Transform variable "player", wherever that player object may be. This only rotates the camera around the x axis of the player's position. How can I raise the camera to slightly above the player's position?
Any suggestions on rotation on the Y axis?
using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
public class Orbit : MonoBehaviour {
public float turnSpeed = 4.0f;
public Transform player;
public float height = 1f;
public float distance = 2f;
private Vector3 offsetX;
void Start () {
offsetX = new Vector3(0, height, distance);
}
void LateUpdate()
{
offsetX = Quaternion.AngleAxis (Input.GetAxis("Mouse X") * turnSpeed, Vector3.up) * offsetX;
transform.position = player.position + offsetX;
transform.LookAt(player.position);
}
}
Thank you so much this is exactly what I was looking for.
@Omega MrBalins code is perfect he just left out part of line 25 so ppl couldn't copy and paste his work
