How to make a camera follow loosely in 3d

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Godot 4.3
I can’t get my camera to follow my character loosely i currently have it in a temporary fixed position and i need the camera to face the same direction the entire time

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What does your scene tree look like?

I personally like to have my scene tree, depending on the current requirements, to look somewhat like:

ActorContainer
- CameraPivot
  - Camera
- CharacterBody
  - RemoteTransformForCameraPivot

Where you can constrain what remote transform syncs with pivot.

You can add multiple levels of pivots if desired. You lerp camera to a certain distance away from pivot.

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I have my character in its own scene so my scene tree is:

Characterbody3D

  • Camera3D
  • CollisionShape3D
    -MeshInstance3D
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If you want it to not phase through objects do this:

otherwise, just make a node3d and attach the camera to it.

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I was thinking of movement delay so when I make a sudden movement the camera won’t

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Sounds to me like you just want to lerp the position of the camera to the player position, which will give you that smooth lose camera feel probably.

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not gonna lie i have no idea what that is

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So you would do something like camera.position = lerp(camera.position, new_position, 0.1 * delta), the last value determines how quickly it will get to the new position.

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“lerp” is short for “linear interpolation” or “linearly interpolate”. There’s a lerp() function in the globals that will do it.

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Thanks i did some research and i now know how to use the lerp function

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