3rd Person Mouse Controlled Camera

Hello guys.

I'm trying to create a kind of free-floating camera, which orbits a character, making the perspective 3rd person.

The point is to make the player character rotate and look where the mouse cursor is on the screen.

So far I have two scripts, and it works a little bit. The only problem for me is that the camera view keeps sliding across the screen and S***, a player would never be able to control it. Right now, I have the camera being a child of the character model, sitting inside his head area, I dont know if that might be causing problems.

How can i fix this?

Here is the code which is placed on my camera.

Code (csharp):

1. using UnityEngine;
2. using System.Collections;
3.  
4. public class CameraScript : MonoBehaviour
5. {
6.     // Use this for initialization
7.     void Start ()
8.     {
9.    
10.     }
11.    
12.     // Update is called once per frame
13.     void Update ()
14.     {
15.         RaycastHit hit;
16.         if(Physics.Raycast(Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition), out hit))
17.         {
18.             gameObject.transform.LookAt(hit.point);
19.         }
20.     }
21. }

And this code is placed on my character prefab

Code (csharp):

1. using UnityEngine;
2. using System.Collections;
3.  
4. public class Movement : MonoBehaviour
5. {
6.  
7.     // Use this for initialization
8.     void Start ()
9.     {
10.    
11.     }
12.    
13.     // Update is called once per frame
14.     void Update ()
15.     {
16.         if(Input.GetKey(KeyCode.W))
17.         {
18.             gameObject.transform.Translate(Vector3.forward);
19.         }
20.         if(Input.GetKey(KeyCode.A))
21.         {
22.             gameObject.transform.Translate(Vector3.left);
23.         }
24.         if(Input.GetKey(KeyCode.S))
25.         {
26.             gameObject.transform.Translate(Vector3.back);
27.         }
28.         if(Input.GetKey(KeyCode.D))
29.         {
30.             gameObject.transform.Translate(Vector3.right);
31.         }
32.     }
33. }

Also, for reference, I am trying to re-create a camera which acts like the camera from Mount&Blade: Warband;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqgjw4EvbHo

 

Bump. Anyone got some input or directions?

 

why do you have "out" in the raycast call? I've not seen that before...