How to make camera follow player but not when they move?

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1

Would really appreciate any help on this as I have been trying all day.

The image is moving automatically and the camera follow it as a child, but the camera also follows whenever the image moves left or right. When the player moves, I would like for the camera to stay still, but still following them where they are automatically moving.

    float distance = 10f;
    float speed = 0.1f;

    Vector3 direction = new Vector3(1f, 0f, 0f).normalized;

    if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.LeftArrow))
    {
        transform.Translate(direction * -distance);
    }

    else if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.RightArrow))
    {
        transform.Translate(direction * distance);
    }

    transform.Translate(0F, 13F, 0 * Time.deltaTime);

}

Thanks for any help

2

I’m assuming you mean that you only want the camera to move when you force the player to move? Like when transitioning areas/screens? There’s a lot of details about this you’ll need to clarify to be sure anyone can answer this, but you may want to just make the camera’s transform not set as a child of the player’s transform, and just move it in an update function.

void Update()
{
     cam.transform.position = Vector3.Lerp(cam.transform.position, cam_desired_position, cam_speed * Time.deltaTime);
}

where cam is the camera, cam_desired_position is the position you want the camera to move to, and cam_speed is the speed you want to move the camera in units/second. Just set this from another function that references that script.