camera acting weird...

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hi everyone, i made an empty game object(called it “player”) and inside of it i put my 3d model and the camera.
i made a script and had it attached to the camera.
what my script does is to move “player” on the y axis and my camera on the x axis.
and i wanted to add a function that will make the camera move closer to the player when you look down.
and so i wrote my function and it kind of work, the problem is that the camera dosent come closer only on the z axis like i want but it is also changing the x axis, and i have no idea why, please help me.

this is the code:

public float mouseSensitivity = 100f;

public Transform playerbody; ///empty game object player transform

float xRotation = 0f; /// camera rotation

public Vector3 firstLocation; /// first camera position

void Start()
{
    Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked;

    firstLocation = transform.position;
}

void Update()
{
    float mouseX = Input.GetAxis("Mouse X") * mouseSensitivity * Time.deltaTime;
    float mouseY = Input.GetAxis("Mouse Y") * mouseSensitivity * Time.deltaTime;

    playerbody.Rotate(Vector3.up * mouseX);/// player side movment

    xRotation -= mouseY;
    xRotation = Mathf.Clamp(xRotation, -30f, 45f);
   
    transform.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(xRotation, 0f, 0f); /// camera up and down movment

    
   
}
void LateUpdate()
{
    LookDown(xRotation); /// function to move closer when you look down
}

void LookDown(float rotate)
{
    float t = rotate / 45f;
    if (rotate > 0) 
    {
        transform.position = new Vector3(firstLocation.x, firstLocation.y, Mathf.Lerp(firstLocation.z, 0f, t));
        
    }
}

}

2

i was able to fix the problem.
the problem was that the camera is a child of “player” so i needed to use transform.localPosition and not position.