Camera cuts to behind player as I rotate around

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I have been following this tutorial series but have a problem with the camera that I don’t understand. I’m a beginner with Unity so I’m pretty lost going off script from the tutorial. Here is a screen recording of what’s happening in my game. As I rotate my mouse around my character, the camera resets to looking behind my character. I can’t pinpoint any exact degrees or axes this occurs on as it seems kind of random.

This is the camera code I have so far:

public class CameraController : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Transform target;
    public Vector3 offset;
    public bool useOffsetValues;
    public float rotateSpeed;
    public Transform pivot;
    public float maxViewAngle;
    public float minViewAngle;
    public bool invertY;

    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {   
        if(!useOffsetValues){
            offset = target.position - transform.position;
        }

        pivot.transform.position = target.transform.position;
        // pivot.transform.parent = target.transform;
        pivot.transform.parent = null;

        Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked;
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void LateUpdate()
    {

        pivot.transform.position = target.transform.position;

        // get x pos of mouse and rotate the target
        float horizontal = Input.GetAxis("Mouse X") * rotateSpeed;
        pivot.Rotate(0, horizontal, 0);

        // get y pos of mouse and rotate the pivot
        float vertical = Input.GetAxis("Mouse Y") * rotateSpeed;
        // pivot.Rotate(-vertical, 0, 0);
        if(invertY){
            pivot.Rotate(vertical, 0, 0);
        }else{
            pivot.Rotate(-vertical, 0, 0);
        }

        // limit up/down camera rotation
        if(pivot.rotation.eulerAngles.x > maxViewAngle && pivot.rotation.eulerAngles.x < 180f){
            pivot.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(maxViewAngle, 0, 0);
        }

        if(pivot.rotation.eulerAngles.x > 180f && pivot.rotation.eulerAngles.x < (360f + minViewAngle)){
            pivot.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(360f + minViewAngle, 0, 0);
        }

        // move camera based on rotation of target and original offset
        float desiredYAngle = pivot.eulerAngles.y;
        float desiredXAngle = pivot.eulerAngles.x;

        Quaternion rotation = Quaternion.Euler(desiredXAngle, desiredYAngle, 0);
        transform.position = target.position - (rotation * offset);

        // transform.position = target.position - offset;

        if(transform.position.y < target.position.y){
            transform.position = new Vector3(transform.position.x, target.position.y - 0.5f, transform.position.z);
        }

        transform.LookAt(target);
    }
}

Thanks for the help!!

2

Hello

You have basically the same code except for;

// pivot.transform.parent = target.transform;
   pivot.transform.parent = null;

If you are following exactly the same steps, you have to have the same code, if for some reason your “pivot” does not have a parent, you have to change the code in order to make the rotation around that pivot object.

That code will not work the same way with different “patent-child” objects.