Third Person Camera locked on to player.

Unity Engine
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hi, very new to unity but i was wondering if i could get a hand with the coding.

i’m making a script for a third person camera and it is following the player fine, however when i rotate the player the camera stays static and eventually the player faces the camera, i want the camera to rotate with the player.
i’m sure this is simple but i just need a helping hand to get started, here is my code:

using UnityEngine;
public class Camera_Follow : MonoBehaviour
{
public Transform target;
public float smoothSpeed = 0.125f;
public Vector3 offset;
void LateUpdate ()
{
Vector3 desiredPosition = target.position + offset;
Vector3 smoothedPosition = Vector3.Lerp (transform.position, desiredPosition, smoothSpeed);
transform.position = smoothedPosition;
}
}

i am aware that i could make the player a parent but i want the camera to have a slight delay between the player rotating and the camera.
thanks in advance!

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If you’re going to handle it all in this script, you’re going to need to track the target’s rotation from the previous frame, compare it to the current rotation to get yourself a delta, and then reposition and rotate the camera to match. To do it with a delay you’re probably going to want to create a queue where you’re adding these deltas with a timestamp to apply them in the future (at least that is probably how I’d do this kind of thing). Could be a bit tricky to get to feel right, since you might want to apply the rotations at a different speed than the target turns.

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