Lerp and SmoothDamp jittering issue

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I’ve been working on a third person camera and I can’t seem to escape a jittering issue in the rotation of the camera, I’ve mainly been following a Sebastian Graves guide on YouTube and he mentions the jittering issue in

as a “Stiffness” and suggests that changing a Lerp to a SmoothDamp and adding a Vector3.zero private variable. But for some reason the jittering is still happening in my project and I can’t seem to fix it, I’ve changed the Interpolation on the rigidbody of my player I’ve changed the timestep Fix and Max to 0.016666 but everything I do has no affect, I’ve reset it and removed the script and even rewritten it but its the same, it’s not a frame rate issue as far as I can see because my player characters animations are still fine. I’m really lost on how to fix it. Any help would be greatly appreciated

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Camera stuff is pretty tricky… you may wish to consider using Cinemachine from the Unity Package Manager.

There’s even a dedicated forum: Unity Engine - Unity Discussions

If you insist on making your own camera controller, the simplest way to do it is to think in terms of two Vector3 points in space: where the camera is LOCATED and where the camera is LOOKING.

private Vector3 WhereMyCameraIsLocated;
private Vector3 WhatMyCameraIsLookingAt;

void LateUpdate()
{
  cam.transform.position = WhereMyCameraIsLocated;
  cam.transform.LookAt( WhatMyCameraIsLookingAt);
}

Then you just need to update the above two points based on your GameObjects, no need to fiddle with rotations.