How do I make the camera rotate with the object?

[ArtyIF]

I've used Cinemachine for my racing game's cameras back when I used Unity, and there the default follow mode rotated with the object it was following. So, if you set the offset to (0, 1, -3), it would always be 3 meters behind (the Z axis is inverted in Unity compared to Godot) the object along its Z axis and 1 meter above the object along its Y axis.

However, when I tried to do the same in Godot's Phantom Camera, it didn't. Here's an example:

2024-12-25.14-37-20.mp4

Is there any way to make sure the camera follows the object with an offset in its local axis and not global? Only way I can think of is creating a node with a script that does all the following for you, but that defeats a lot of the addon's point for my use case (i.e. to move away from my messy scripting I currently have for my camera and use a user-friendly interface to configure said camera). Maybe the addon's just broken on Godot 4.4-dev7 (yes, I use a dev version for my project, it's just got more stuff for me that I need)?

[ArtyIF]

By the way, I did the thing with writing a custom script for the follow point, and realized that the follow damping is also calculated in the global axis.

[ramokz]

When you say “rotate with the object”, do you mean making the PCam copy the rotational value of the object, i.e., when the object turns the PCam rotates by the same mount, or having the PCam orbit around the object?

[ArtyIF]

Orbit around it, I guess. When the object turns, I want the camera to reposition itself to be behind it.

[ArtyIF]

Here's an example with my current custom-made camera system of what I want it to do. PCam seems to just stay in one spot instead.

rotate.mp4

[ramokz]

There is not an automatic way to do it, but you can use the Third Person Follow (https://phantom-camera.dev/follow-modes/third-person) to adjust the camera to rotate around its target.

It would just be a case of calling the rotation function with the same rotation amount you're applying to the followed object; so the object and camera stay in sync.