Camera Follow Sprite

Unity Engine
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Hello, I am trying to get my main camera to follow my main sprite but only on the x-axis. I have it as a child of the main sprite but it follows it everywhere. Any help is appreciated.

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Slap a script on the camera telling it to update it’s position based on the players position.

And make sure the camera isn’t a child of anything. That generally isn’t a good idea.

Something like this should do, this should track the player on the X axis and should give it some basic smooth movement (use an interpSpeed between 1 and 0, 1 move instantly, 0 never moves);

Public GameObject player;

Public float interpSpeed;

Private Vector3 targetPos

Void Update(){

targetPos = new Vector3(player.transform.position.x, transform.position.y, transform.position.z);

transform.position = Vector3.Lerp(transform.position, targetPos, interpSpeed);

}
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Prototypetheta gave a wonderful response! He’s pretty much spot on, but I would avoid using the Update() method for camera related things. Instead I would use LateUpdate().

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Whoops, forgot about LateUpdate.

Do what he says, do camera stuff in LateUpdate.

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Thanks! Will having my other code in js matter? I’d like to keep it all the same and I don’t want to copy the C# code and not know what it means.

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It’s always best to keep your code consistent, so I wouldn’t recommend mixing C#/JS. You can do it, but it can become a nightmare. You should be able to convert this simple script into JS. If you need any help, hit me up :slight_smile: