Camera bias on mouse positon, possible?

Unity Engine
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Hey all,

So I have this idea for a camera script. The game is in 3d, it’s top down and the player moves with WASD and rotates their character via rotating the mouse around their character.

Now, what I would like to accomplish is kind of hard to explain. I want the camera to slightly pan in the direction that the mouse is facing.

So, normally the player camera is centered over the player like so:

but lets say I move the mouse to the far right of the player, I want the camera to pan over to that direction like so:

the same would apply to every to every other direction as well.

I’d also like for it to have a smooth transition from being centered to being panned.

I’m sure it’s possible, but I don’t think I’ve actually seen it done in any other game, so I don’t have any examples. And frankly I’m not sure how to go about doing this in C#.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

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Sounds easy. Not sure specifically though :slight_smile:

Just play around with mouse position I guess and move your camera accordingly, with some min/max bounds set on it so it doesn’t go to far?

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Offhand, I’d InverseLerp mousePosition.x with the left and right edges of the screen, and feed the result into Lerping an offset with the desired world units on the x axis. Then the same for mousePosition.y etc.

–Eric