[SOLVED] How to achieve smooth camera rotation?

[Onur_Ozturk]

Hello, let’s say there is a camera object (as a child) under the Player object, and naturally the camera automatically follows wherever the player goes or turns. However, when the player suddenly turns 180 degrees to the right or left, the camera turns very hard with the player. How can I soften the rotation of this camera? Can you leave a sample code block?

I looked at the Tween library but didn’t understand much.

[Leonidas]

Hi @Onur_Ozturk,

You can use vector lerp to smoothly interpolate between two positions or two rotations. Here is some example code:

[SOLVED] How To Make Camera Movement Smooth

Hi @GmeMkr, Here is a way to smooth out your camera when following the ball: var CameraScript = pc.createScript('cameraScript'); //Attributes CameraScript.attributes.add("player", { type: 'entity', title: 'Player' }); // initialize code called once per entity CameraScript.prototype.initialize = function() { this.pivotPoint = new pc.Vec3(); // --- the smoothness of the camera, larger values make the movement smoother this.inertia = 0.15; // --- the initial offset of the…

[Onur_Ozturk]

Thank you, I will try right away

[yaustar]

If the camera is always the child of the object that it is following, then there is no easy way to really add damping there as any changes to the rotation of the object directly affects the camera.

You would want the camera to be an entity that isn’t a child of it and have logic to follow it.

We have an example here: Vehicle Physics | Learn PlayCanvas

In the project, there is a script called ‘follow-camera.js’ that has common logic for this type of thing.

[Onur_Ozturk]

Thank you for your answer. I will review the project. Thank you again