Camera positioning issues

Hello,

I'm creating a lot of spheres in my scene on x and y axis, z is always 0.
So I want to position my camera so that I look from above, down to my spheres.
How do I do that?

What I've tried so far?
I'm taking the first sphere and took their coordinates and changed the z Value and then called LookAt with the sphere coordinates.
But it looks like that I'm seeing my sphere's from the right side!?
I also tried to set the first sphere as a parent to my camera and then called LookAt, but it looks like nothing has changed.

The camera is nothing special at the moment, just the normal one.

So any help would be appreciated.

 

I see no reason why that wouldn't work. Could you post some code?

 

y is the vertical axis, not z...

 

Good point. Thank's!

My old code looks like this:

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2. Vector3 starPos = new Vector3(doubleToFloat(x), doubleToFloat(y), 0);
3.  

after I changed it to:

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2. Vector3 starPos = new Vector3(doubleToFloat(x), 0, doubleToFloat(y));
3.  

And my camera code to

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2. GameObject camera = GameObject.Find("Camera");
3. Vector3 starPosition = stars[0].transform.position;
4. Vector3 cameraPosition = starPosition + new Vector3(0, 30, 0);
5. camera.transform.position = cameraPosition;
6. camera.transform.LookAt(starPosition);
7.  

Everything looks as expected.

 

If you have only one camera in your scene, it would be faster to do:

Code (CSharp):

1.  GameObject cameraGO = Camera.main.gameObject

 

I found similar code too, but it gives me a NullReferenceException, because

Code (CSharp):

1. Camera.main

is null.

 

It's probably because the camera is not tagged with "MainCamera".

 

Tagged it and now it works.