How do I lock the camera?

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Hello,

I am making a Side Scroller game using the template and the default character, I have put some BP so the pawn moves in a direction at all times and if the player presses the letter A the direction changed from right to left. When this happens the camera is also rotating which I do not want.

I need the camera to follow the player but when the player changed direction I do not want the camera to do the same.

Any ideas how to fix this?

Thanks.

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Could you show what you have taking place when you trigger a direction change?

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I don’t see why the camera would be effected if you’re using the SS template.

Maybe try changing from reversing the Input feed to feeding in 1 either way…
But reversing the direction normal.

0, -1, 0 one way
0, 1, 0 the other

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Hi, could you explain a little more what you mean as I am new to ue4 and development in general, I understand the world direction is the issue here but unsure how to fix it :slight_smile:

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Using the keys you are using… it would be like this.
(this may not fix the problem)

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I have tried the other method with having the world direction changing but not the scale value as shown in the previous screenshot but the camera still flips when I change direction :frowning:

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Wait… I think I have been misunderstanding.

I thought you were saying the camera reversed when the player does - moving to the other side.

Are you saying you want the camera to continue moving Right when the player goes Left?

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I want the camera to follow the player at all times which it does, but when I change the direction of the player the camera spins 180 degrees. I just want the camera like every other game in this genre basically :smiley:

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Okay, sometimes it is so obvious it is hard to notice…

Click on the Spring Arm and change the Rotation to World(Absolute)

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I have changed it from relative to world and it now looks like your screenshot but unfortunately the camera still flips 180 degrees when I change the player direction.

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I’ll keep digging… changing the arm to Relative was how I got it to start turning the camera with the character.

I’ll see if I can find other things that will do it too.

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I have changed it on the spring arm. and it is set to -90 degrees so the camera is right where I want it. But when I press D and move left instead of right the camera flips :frowning:

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I took out the Spring Arm and it started swinging 180degrees with the character changing directions.

After I replaced the Arm’s settings with this it worked again.

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I have just started a brand new project and for some odd reason my camera is working fine. Even though I have the exact same BP setup. So if you have any further things just in case it breaks in the future then I would still appreciate some help.

But for the moment it is working, the only difference is the spring arm and camera I placed manually but in the new project I have not touched them, the settings were the same though so I am still unsure how one works but not the other.

Thanks for all the help :smiley:

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Good luck with the project.

I don’t think I was much help. :wink: