# Camera Delay
**URL:** https://discussions.unity.com/t/camera-delay/421447
**Category:** Camera
**Tags:** Scripting
**Created:** [August 25, 2010, 6:39pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/camera-delay/421447 "2010-08-25T18:39:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@anon\_80706372](https://discussions.unity.com/u/anon_80706372)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2010, 6:39pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/camera-delay/421447/1 "2010-08-25T18:39:06Z")
Hey, i am sorry if this has been answered before. I am using the smoothfollow script to follow my object. But rather than it moving exactly with the object, i want it to be more like the camera used in “Corky” ([http://www.cordythegame.com/](http://www.cordythegame.com/)), the way it delays before catching up, if you know what I mean.
Thanks in advanced
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### Author:  [@anon\_43237147](https://discussions.unity.com/u/anon_43237147)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2010, 7:48pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/camera-delay/421447/2 "2010-08-25T19:48:27Z")
Check out the Lerpz tutorial; the camera movement in that has damping applied (I don’t know if it’s exactly what you want, but it’ll show you how to achieve the effect).
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### Author:  [@anon\_80706372](https://discussions.unity.com/u/anon_80706372)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2010, 9:37pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/camera-delay/421447/3 "2010-08-25T21:37:56Z")
Thanks for the quick reply. I just tried what you suggested and I now am using the ThhirdPersonController and the SpringFollowCamera scripts. But i cannot figure out how to get my character moving again. Any ideas?
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### Author:  [@anon\_43237147](https://discussions.unity.com/u/anon_43237147)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2010, 12:12am UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/camera-delay/421447/4 "2010-08-26T00:12:20Z")
Follow the tutorial? 😉 You probably missed a step in hooking things up, but it’s difficult to know what step since you didn’t describe what you actually did.
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### Author:  [@anon\_80706372](https://discussions.unity.com/u/anon_80706372)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2010, 4:54pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/camera-delay/421447/5 "2010-08-26T16:54:47Z")
So I figured the problem out, for some reason i forgot to tag the camera as MainCamera haha. So I got the camera and controlls working, but what I am trying to do is make the camera look at the character from one side, but still with some horizontal rotation (I am making a 3D side scroller, like LBP). and for the controls i want to be able to go forwards and backwards (left and right across the screen) throughout the level. And like LBP, i want the movement in the other directions (closer and further from the screen) to be on a grid, if you know what I am getting at.
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### Author:  [@anon\_43237147](https://discussions.unity.com/u/anon_43237147)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2010, 6:44pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/camera-delay/421447/6 "2010-08-26T18:44:51Z")
In that case, I’d suggest the 2d Platformer tutorial 🙂
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### Author:  [@anon\_80706372](https://discussions.unity.com/u/anon_80706372)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2010, 8:30pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/camera-delay/421447/7 "2010-08-26T20:30:21Z")
Well now we’re getting somewhere. I have set up the camera following the 2d tutorial like you suggested (I thought I had already gone through taht, I guess I am thining of a different one). Whats left for me to do is figure out how I can have the camera on a tilt so I am not looking directly horizontally at the character, and more importantly, set up the controls so I can move the character on the z-axis as well, but on a grid of three. Any ideas on that?
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### Author:  [@anon\_43237147](https://discussions.unity.com/u/anon_43237147)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2010, 9:10pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/camera-delay/421447/8 "2010-08-26T21:10:29Z")
Not sure what you mean by a grid of three, but all the camera movement/positioning is controlled by one script if I remember the tutorial correctly (it’s been a while) so you should just need to tweak that…
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### Author:  [@anon\_80706372](https://discussions.unity.com/u/anon_80706372)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2010, 9:32pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/camera-delay/421447/9 "2010-08-26T21:32:07Z")
What I mean by grid is the way a character moves on the z-axis in LittleBigPlanet, if youve played that before.