New scene, new camera, following the same character

Unity Engine
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hi there, I recently started working on my own game and what I’d like to do is exactly what the title suggests. Right now I have my game setup with a base scene which never unloads where I keep my player and my camera. The problem with this is that I can’t set confines for the camera depending on which room/scene the player is in, so I’d like to use a different camera for each scene. But I can’t set these cameras to follow the player which I keep in my base scene.
Is there a solution for this? I’ve done a lot of research but I couldn’t really find anything, it seems cross-scene references is one of Unity’s weaker points, that said I know that something like this should be possible as this is what Hollow Knight(game which was built in unity) does.

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Hi, you will need to set refference for follow traget when new camera loads. So I suggest you that you put some custom script on your camera and when camera first loads you assign your player to follow refference vc.m_Follow = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag( "Player" ).transform;.

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Thank you that worked!
Here’s the exact code I used in case anyone has the same problem

public class CameraScript : MonoBehaviour
{
    private CinemachineVirtualCamera vcam;
    void Start()
    {
        var vcam = GetComponent<CinemachineVirtualCamera>();
        vcam.Follow = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("Player").transform;
    }
  
}
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