Third Person and Top Down swaps. Any ideas?

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Hi guys, I’m making a game where there are 2 perspectives, depending on the player choice. The idea is that the camera position can be changed with a press of a button to go from third person to lets say top-down.

Now I imported the CharacterController package but I can’t figure out which ones to use. You see, I can’t figure out the proper way to make the mouse look work. Should I attach the camera as a child to the player and rotate the player? If I rotate the camera then I won’t be able to rotate the player once the perspective changes.

Also, should I use transform.lookAt(target) for the top down view? Seems to work well enough. Basically I’m asking you for an idea on how to make the mouse look work in a way that the character rotates towards the cursor in top down and third person modes.

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How about if the button changed the parameters of your camera control script? For example, if you’re using SmoothFollowWithCameraBumper, you could change the height, distance, and/or target transform.

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Hmm this script is fairly similar to the one I wrote. Thing is I can’t figure out how to make the mouselook work.

From a top-down perspective it’s pretty easy with a raycast from the camera, but how would I make this work in a third person? Do I rotate the player model itself with the input x/y from the mouse or should I rotate the camera itself and make the player face an empty object in front of the cam?

Thanks for the response though, it gave me a few ideas how fix up my own script.