Child not Following Parent Properly

I have a camera as a child of a player game object. It's supposed to follow the player smoothly, but instead it follows it like it was on a rubber band, falling back and then catching up.

Here's my code:

Code (CSharp):

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2.             transform.position += transform.forward * speed * Gait * Time.deltaTime;
3.             transform.Rotate(0, Input.GetAxis("Horizontal"), 0);
4.             camera.transform.localPosition = new Vector3(0f,3f,-3.5f);

 

Well, there's no reason you need to keep setting the localPosition of the camera every frame. You should be able to set that just once. You're sure there isn't any other code affecting the camera position?

 

Only thing I see fishy in your code snippet is what @dgoyette said about localPosition, and that your transform.Rotate call is framerate-dependent because it doesn't take Time.deltaTime into account.

 

@dgoyette @PraetorBlue

Even when I remove that line, it continues to do the same thing. There is nothing else affecting the gameobject.

 

Maybe if you could explain your object hierarchy better? Which object ios this script attached to?

 

Here is my object's hierarchy. The Camera is the object I'm trying to control. If I put it under the Armature it does the same thing.

 

Where is all this in relation to the player? Is the horse the player? What's an armature? Which object is the script above attached to?

 

Oh and the script is on the parent gameobject.

 

The player mounts inside the armature. The armature is the skeleton.

 

If this is an animated object, typically you'd attach moving objects to some object within the armature, since that's the part that manifests the animated movement. I'm not sure what bone would make the most sense here, maybe the head bone, or a back bone of the horse? But maybe you can parent the camera to one of those bones and see if that improved the result?

 

I have the same issue. Did you find the solution?