Camera Rotate Arrow Keys

Unity Engine
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Hi guys, I’ve been looking around a little for a camera that i can use, a script really, just looking for some advice.
What I want is a camera that follows the main character, as in the character stats in the middle of the frame.
I want to be able to rotate the camera around the character using only the arrow keys. Left and right for example, not too worried about up and down, maybe to a slight degree.
The camera should be able to move at player choice, so I don’t want it to follow behind the character at all, I should also note I will be doing click to move.
I suppose the best example for exact what I want is RuneScape.
I think being able to modify the 3rd person script the engine comes with should be simple enough, but I have no experience in camera.
Direction or help would be great, thanks. :slight_smile:

2

Look at the MouseOrbit.js camera script in the standard assets as a starting point. You just need to change the inputs from horizontal mouse axis to button press, and remove the vertical mouse axis influence.

3

I’m having issues trying to figure it out, I’m looking at the script (I finally found it, thanks for the name) but I’m not exactly sure what to be changing, i changed a few things but it…It doesn’t work :confused: ((Old))

Actually I figured the movement out, but it just spins in circles, I have no idea how to fix that, easy I’m really sure but I’ll look into it more tomorrow. Any light anyone could shed though would be great.

4

You’ll need to provide a little more detail than “i changed a few things,” and “It doesn’t work,” for anyone to be able to offer much help… :wink:

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What I mean is, obviously I’m not sure what I’m doing but I changed the script and mapped new keys so I can use them, this is what I changed.

function LateUpdate () {
    if (target) {
        x += Input.GetAxis("Right") * xSpeed * 0.02;
        y -= Input.GetAxis("Up") * ySpeed * 0.02;
 		
 		y = ClampAngle(y, yMinLimit, yMaxLimit);
 		       
        var rotation = Quaternion.Euler(y, x, 0);
        var position = rotation * Vector3(0.0, 0.0, -distance) + target.position;

“Right” and “up” are the arrow keys I put in instead of the mouse, but if I hit it once it will keep spinning without stopping.
I think the answer lays in the code but I am not sure. :slight_smile: