Rotate around my character

Unity Engine
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Hi,
I would like to rotate around my character with the mouse (horizontal and vertical axis).However, I’m not sure how can I do that.

I can rotate my camera on itself, but what should I change to rotate around my hero.

if (Input.GetMouseButton (0)) {
          
          
            transform.position = Target.TransformPoint (new Vector3 (0f, 2f, -10f));
            transform.Rotate (new Vector3 (Input.GetAxis ("Mouse Y") * 350, Input.GetAxis ("Mouse X") * 350, 0) * Time.deltaTime);
          
        }
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You could try putting a movement/rotation script onto the camera so that it uses the mouse for input & then have the camera always target the player.

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Use Transform.RotateAround()

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transform.RotateAround(Target.position, Target.up, 90 * Time.deltaTime);

However, my camera rotate on itselft and not around the target.

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You set the player as the target?

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If I remove : transform.position = Target.TransformPoint (new Vector3 (0f, 2f, -10f));

The RotateAround works, but If My character move, the camera doesn’t follow the target.

Basically, my first code works, but I would like the camera look at the character.
If I use LookAt, the camera doesn’t move at all.

With RotateAround the camera doesn’t keep the -10f distance.

Is there a way with LookAt to look at the target, but be able to rotate the camera ?

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Is the camera set as a child of the parent?

8

Oh snap…

I forgot to set the camera as child with the new code.

9

Ted,
do you know a way to modify the rotation the same way that the positon.

Origin = Target.TransformPoint (new Vector3 (0f, 2f, -10f));
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Not off the top of my head & I don’t have access to a PC to test anything, sorry.

Try this link, I have it bookmarked. He explains what he is doing & also has the code for different types of camera scripts

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You need something like this:

transform.rotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(target.transform.position - transform.position);

I cant test this right now too see if the positions are the right way around, but this should make your camera look at the target.

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Hey, another question.

Do you know why for quaternion/rotation the x is the first value and for a position x is the second value ?

OriginRot *= Quaternion.Euler (25f, 0f, 0f);

        Origin = Target.TransformPoint (new Vector3 (0f, 8f, -15f));

X seems to be horizontal for position and vertical for rotation.