🎥┃cinemachine

[reef whale]

How can I use cinemachine

[royal tartan]

read the link I just sent

[reef whale]

K I get it

[umbral geyser]

how do i adjust the camera distance value under body in cmvirtualcam component
copy property path for lens and such worked, but copying property path for camera distance says it doesnt exist

[errant shard]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59346229/change-camera-distance-of-cinemachine-in-script
https://discussions.unity.com/t/change-camera-distance-of-cinemachine-virtualcamera-in-script/247727

Like they mention in the first link, prefer to use multiple vcams with preset settings instead of directly controlling them in a script, if that's applicable

[neon sinew]

yo guys im having this bug with cinemachine collider

how do i fix it??

[wintry canopy]

@neon sinew You are not showing any of the settings you are using or explaining your setup here.

[neon sinew]

i was taking screenies just rn

[neon sinew]

i didn't explain my setup so i will ig

sorry again 😅

this is the setting of the collider

i wanna make it so that it shows the face when something gets too close but its not doing that even when i focused it to the face

or the whole body if there is space

[wintry canopy]

And you should be using a guide for this as well. I would imagine automatic collision on the camera would require specific control setup.

[neon sinew]

i tried using linecast but it didn't work quiet well

[wintry canopy]

Just from jittering, your camera is fighting something, like you are overriding physics with transform somewhere.

[neon sinew]

and the transform would be of the player or the camera??

at some point its jittering, and, at some point it is fine

[wintry canopy]

There are plenty of tutorials for the cinemachine setup for obstacles.

[neon sinew]

i changed the offset a bit and now this is happening

[neon sinew]

ya i saw unity's only

the 3rd person camera tutorial

[wintry canopy]

The basic behavior would be pretty direct. If you want a specific behavior for the camera you would need to script it for these cases. There are tutorials for this as well, just have to search for specific terms

[neon sinew]

actually, no , i want it to do what the cinemachine collider does but its not doing that

[wintry canopy]

Some times in these cases shaders are used instead to cut out anything blocking the view of the camera, there are tutorials for that as well

[neon sinew]

hmmm.....ill look it up. Thx!

it feels good to be guided by a moderator 🙂

[wintry canopy]

Here another example on how to setup camera for collisions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPU2ri4ZwxM

[neon sinew]

ok ill see!

oh, it worked!!

thanks fogsight!!

im also pretty new to this gamedev thing so im learning

little by little

im making my first game

its called paciliquent

[wintry canopy]

Almost everything in Unity is covered extensively by tutorials, if you can't find something specific explained on Unity Learn, there's always somewhere else it is covered.
And don't try to use components you are not familiar with yourself without exploring them with manual or tutorials. You'll miss important instructions about them.

[neon sinew]

ok! ill keep that in mind the next time i do something

thanks anyway for helping :>

[umbral geyser]

thanks

[quaint tide]

When I install Cinemachine, it isn't there.

[ivory wraith]

as the package manager says...

if you're referencing a tutorial, it's probably using an older version of Cinemachine

[broken cove]

https://images-ext-2.discordapp.net/external/K2PgCeZBP4fWWYndQF22UewtDwwEGGW7mtQXS7f9y5w/https/i.gyazo.com/9196c436661c576430d1b45dc2ccf9e2.gif

my cinemachine cameras seem to be moving/rotating on their own like the GTA V idle camera

but I don't see any settings to turn off this

I am using the CinemachineVirtualCamera component

[royal tartan]

Sounds like you have a noise component on it

You'd have to show us your configuration for the vCam

[broken cove]

https://i.gyazo.com/7974d12b6177b93febfda1c7fd024092.gif

[broken cove]

I don't know where the noise component would be

[errant shard]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.cinemachine@2.9/manual/CinemachineVirtualCameraNoise.html

[broken cove]

wait is this it then?

[royal tartan]

Right there where it says noise

Turn that off

[broken cove]

that seemed to fix it 👍

ty

[balmy glacier]

Hello, how can I access these 2 values from code?

[royal tartan]

https://docs.unity.cn/Packages/com.unity.cinemachine@2.8/api/Cinemachine.CinemachineFramingTransposer.html#Cinemachine_CinemachineFramingTransposer_m_ScreenX

[balmy glacier]

Thanks!

[timber verge]

On my cinemachine when I'm moving my mouse up and keep going up it starts rotating a bit crazy towards the sides. But I've noticed games in general it seems to stick to the top and not rotate around the top.

Am I doing something wrong or do games add something for this case.

[royal tartan]

you'd have to show your vCam setup, your code, and perhaps a video of the problem

[brittle coral]

using the cinemachine package, do I need to add anything to follow character?

I set the character to follow but it doesn't seem to work

[brittle coral]

ping me if someone replies

[errant shard]

Your Body is set to "do nothing" which means cinemachine does nothing regarding moving the vcam position

[forest talon]

how i reduce the headbob from unity first person starter pack?

[gleaming sluice]

I have an issue with my VirtualCamera + CinemachineBrain (PlayerCamera). It seems that I have to instantiate both gameobjects at the same time. However when I place the VirtualCamera GO first in the scene and the PlayerCamera (with the attached CinemachineBrain) shortly after, the CinemachineBrain has the reference to that Live Camera/Virtual Camera - however moving the PlayerCamera is resetting it all the time to the position of the VirtualCamera instead being attached to the Player GO I initially put it as child.

How can I "lazy" init the Virtual Camera with the PlayerCamera/CinemachineBrain?

[gleaming sluice]

Ah nevermind - I mixed the two components up

[delicate heath]

yo! I've had this issue for a while now. If you are asking why I'm looking for the fix in here it's cause I've asked this question on the forums unity page like a week ago and didn't get any response. Onto the issue. I want the deoccluder to only deocclude when the character is behind the wall not the target. I'm using a different tracking target and a different look at for the lock on system to work. Any help will be appreciated!

[waxen galleon]

- I am quite new to this system. My goal is to make sure that the level fits within the boundaries of the screen. The level is a set of tilemaps. Can cinemachine cover this case?

[royal tartan]

The standard way to do this in cinemachine is simply pack the vCam into the player prefab

[fluid hawk]

How do I rotate the virtual camera I need it to look more infront of my player than directly on him.

[royal tartan]

make an empty child object of the player that is offset a bit in front of the player

use that empty object as the Look target for the vCam

[fluid hawk]

Thanks so much

[delicate heath]

Fixing the issue. Don't need help

[patent hound]

how do i trigger a function in cinemachine timeline

[pastel glen]

Use a signal

[magic gorge]

How would you go about setting up a RTS style camera with Cinemachine? I have looked around but can't find anything, though I was sure I had seen something before.

[errant shard]

What do you mean "how"? An RTS style camera seems fairly simple when you break it down to its essentials

[magic gorge]

What I seen mentioned was to have a GO that you move and have a Cinemachine camera track it, that works fine, but I'm not sure how to go about getting the VCam to play nice with rotating around it and zooming.

[errant shard]

Ah so not just a Warcraft 3 style RTS camera I take it

I think you could perhaps use a freelook camera to rotate around a specific unit, and another that's more zoomed in
Then use a Mixing Camera to blend between them by weight based on player's zoom level

With another more traditional set of vcams for moving around when not focusing on a unit

[magic gorge]

Just like your normal top down management/sim/city builder style of camera. I'm not particularly familar with Warcraft 3

[errant shard]

Do you have a specific example? Games of that genre vary a lot sometimes

[magic gorge]

Hmm, like Fabledom is a new one that comes to mind.

[glossy scroll]

2d virtual camera, is there a way to offset dead zone height specifically? I want it to be pretty high but the camera needs to always show the ground

[errant shard]

Yea I think you could use a freelook camera and move its follow target when needed and a specific key input for rotating (plus may be another freelook camera with mixing camera to simplify zooming in/out as I described, but it can be done even with just one as long as you modify the distance of all rigs of the freelook camera)
Then you'd want another simple vcam for the satellite view that simply moves without rotating

[magic gorge]

Cool thanks I will look in to that 😄

[orchid pond]

Anyone have an idea why my Cinemachine is firing its perlin noise camera shake at the start of the game until I get an enemy, then working normally? Is there a setting to press here to stop it from playing on awake? The function that controls the cinemachine isn't firing at the start, from what I can tell with log statements.

https://gyazo.com/399971e54ff30da4ad3b583033d3e1fc.mp4

Ohhh, nevermind, I get it now. The amp + freq in the cinemachine controls it live, not just when the perlin noise is accessed

[raw sundial]

Hey, how can I rotate virtual camera using mouse? Never mind, that's a basic question I guess I got it

[low dove]

Is there a way to have a cinemachine camera follow a player but not rotate in its direction?

[raw sundial]

I guess you need to set "follow" but make "look at" empty

[low dove]

Since my player rotates towards the direction it is moving in, unfortunately it doesn't help. But thank you for making an effort to help me!

[royal tartan]

The person above's answer is exactly correct

the player rotating has absolutely nothing to do with the LookAt setting on the virtual camera

that is about where the camera is looking

[low dove]

Currently I have it set to only Lookat, there is nothing in follow. Whenever I set it to follow it rotates with the player.

[royal tartan]

then you're doing it exactly backwards if you want the camera to follow but not look at the player

[low dove]

I think my biggest mistake was rotating the player itself rather than just rotating the model.

[low dove]

Thank you for teaching me this though, I'll keep it in mind for future projects.

[sturdy birch]

does anyone know how I can disable the slight camera movement while moving forward? i'm afraid it will make people dizzy when playing the game

[errant shard]

Body damping settings

[neon badger]

le wa

this was working perfectly before I redid the mech...

the camera

the camera and camera target were not changed

just moved from the old component to the new one

when the mech camrea is active it just dies

[neon badger]

Nvm it's fixed

I had to adjust the z

[sturdy birch]

cool, it worked, thanks!

[gleaming sluice]

Any idea why my Noise settings might not work? Nothing is happening. Did I left something out that is a requirement for it to work?

[zenith dew]

how do i go to this gameview so i can see it intercative where do i click i cant get there
becuase im tring to make orthosize bigger so i can have it more zoomed out thats the only time i could change it because when im not seeing these rectangels the changes will never aply

[pastel glen]

Like it says, that shows up in the game view.

[zenith dew]

how to do i get there by clicking this button?

[zenith dew]

because that didnt do it

or the game button next to the screenone

[fluid hawk]

I made a multiplayer game once my client joins in the camera locks onto him on the host screen instead of one on host and one on client they both go to host any idea how I could fix this?

[royal tartan]

make sure you only have the correct vCams enabled on each client

sounds like your host has both cameras enabled or only the other player's enabled

it should only have its own

in fact ideally each client wouldn't even have a virtual camera object attached to any other player's objects

[fluid hawk]

My camera it attached to my player prefab?

[royal tartan]

Is that a statement, or a question?

If your camera is attached to your player prefab you need to make sure it gets disabled everywhere except on the local machine that owns that player

[fluid hawk]

Thanks

[solid hemlock]

i notice parts of my mesh disappear when camera gets close to mesh and i want to know if i did something wrong with cinemachine or if it's some FOV issue or something else

[errant shard]

Game camera or scene camera?
It's the near clipping plane, in either case

[halcyon spear]

how to add Y axis for virtual camera for this? or have i use freelook camera?

[errant shard]

What do you mean by "add" Y axis?

[halcyon spear]

like, i can rotate camera only with X axis , but i want to use and Y axis a.k.a vertical rotation

[edgy dome]

this is either camera clipping in game view or you are on isometric mode on scene view

[errant shard]

How are you handling the X axis rotation

Maybe you can do the same for Y

But consider the freelook camera as an option in any case

[halcyon spear]

as you see in screenshot there's X axis section but no Y

[errant shard]

https://forum.unity.com/threads/cinemachine-orbital-transposer-with-x-and-y-orbit.829956/

More up to date info in newer posts of the thread

[halcyon spear]

okay, thx, ill research it

[solid hemlock]

scene camera my bad

[errant shard]

Scene camera has clipping settings under this menu
But normally you don't need to adjust them
When you click on something with middle click to focs the camera there or focus on an object by double clicking it in hierarchy or by selecting it and hitting F with cursor over the scene window, the clipping planes will be adjusted as well with Dynamic Clipping enabled

Note that scrolling in and out "zooms" towards the focused point, adjusting clipping planes also, but using right click and W to move forward will move the focus point with the camera, not adjusting clipping planes

[solid hemlock]

sanks

[solar bone]

How can I disable all cinemachine control except noise?
I already have set up camera with script that controls its movement, and I want ti add screenshake using cinemachine noise without remaking current camera movement logic

[errant shard]

Make sure your vcam's body and aim are "do nothing"
It may be best to move a parent gameobject with your script, so as not to conflict with cinemachine overriding the transform for the noise

[solar bone]

Seems like a working solution, thanks.

But maybe I'll try remake camera movement with cinemachine settings. Is there a simple way to make camera follow a player and a cursor? So the cursor move camera a little from a player position in some direction.

[royal tartan]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.cinemachine@2.3/manual/CinemachineTargetGroup.html

[solar bone]

So for the cursor I need to create empty GO and make it follow to cursor? And them add this go to the group?

I'm trying manually set Transposer.m_FollowOffset, but it adds jitter

[magic gorge]

Is there a way to change the Body[Transposer] XYZ damping behaviour? Right now it 'titles' to keep looking at the point, instead I would like it to just lag behind a little. Or would this be better put in the code that moves the point it is looking at?

[royal tartan]

yes

[royal tartan]

don't do this

[royal tartan]

wdym by "titles"?

[magic gorge]

I mean that I made a typo and it is supposed to be 'tilts' haha sorry

[magic gorge]

This is what I mean (I did turn it up a little so it is easier to see)

[royal tartan]

I would think about setting Look At to "Do Nothing" and switch your Follow to a Framing Transposer

[magic gorge]

Ahh setting the Aim to Do Nothing did it. I had set it to Hard Look At so that when I rotated the target, the camera would rotate too. Would I use a virtualCam.transform.LookAt(target) when I rotate then? Feels like there is a 'Cinamachine' way to do it instead.

[solar bone]

Why?

[royal tartan]

because the target group approach is much better

and more cinemachine-y

[solar bone]

It has strange behaviour, camera sometimes jumps when I move the cursor. Maybe I set up it the wrong way.

CursorFollow:

        void HandleCursorMove(InputAction.CallbackContext context)
        {
            transform.position = MainCamera.ScreenToWorldPoint(context.ReadValue<Vector2>());
        }

First screenshot is target group go, second is virtual camera go

[cursive hill]

for some reason my Cinemachine virtual camera wont move on the y axis, heres my code and camera

[hollow palm]

@cursive hill 30 line you always assign rotation equal to current rotation try to put this line in Start() method instead.

[potent mica]

how do you define the edges of the screen for this? The tutorial I watched just skipped it lol

[royal tartan]

there's a checkbox there for confining via the screen edges

[potent mica]

right but how does it know what the edges are

do I place colliders all around or something?

[royal tartan]

it's all based on the bounding shape you provided

[potent mica]

ohhh, the tutorial made it seem like the bounding shape was the cameras collider. ty

[potent mica]

its not doing anything in regards to stopping the camera, not sure whats wrong

[potent mica]

does anyone know what these red, green and dashed green lines are and how to change them, my camera can only see in the green part, that wouldnt be a problem but cinemachine confiner stops at the red so it doesnt stops too early.

[feral island]

Does encoding quality do anything else except determine the output file size? Since output resolution already determines the quality. (currently I don't see why having a higher encoding quality is useful)

Talking about the recorder

[royal tartan]

resolution is not the only measure of quality

lower quality encodings will contain more compression artifacts etc

[copper blaze]

Im using cinemachine virtual camera to follow my car in the game. When driving the camera is stuttering a lot. I can provide video if asked

[royal tartan]

How is your car moving?

[copper blaze]

It has a car controller. Im controlling it

[royal tartan]

Too vague

I mean what specific movement method is it using

Rigidbody motion with velocity?
transform.Translate?
CharacterController?

[copper blaze]

    {
        frontLeftWheelCollider.motorTorque = verticalInput * motorForce;
        frontRightWheelCollider.motorTorque = verticalInput * motorForce;
    }``` I think this is what you mean?

[royal tartan]

assuming you don't have any other code that's also moving the car, yes.
Now can you show the inspector for your Rigidbody and for your cinemachine brain?

[copper blaze]

This?

[royal tartan]

turn on interpolation on the Rigidbody

[royal tartan]

and no that's the virtual camera

I wanted to see the cinemachine brain

[copper blaze]

here sorry

[royal tartan]

ok looks good

just turn on interpolation

should fix it

[copper blaze]

Amazing! Thank you! Wish I could have found that online

[warm verge]

I need help

so I'm making a 3d animation in unity but I'm having a issue with blending mixamo animations

in every animation the transform offset keeps changing places where is supposed to be

[cursive hill]

Im working with two cinemachine virtual cameras, when I press T on the keyboard the player model changes and right now the camera changes, but the camera doesnt stay where the mouse is when switching for some reason, how when switching cameras would I keep the mouse at its current position cause when I switch now it just changes the mouse back to where the camera was last in that mode..

[errant shard]

Sounds like the animations are trying to use root motion, but it's hard to say

Also, #🏃┃animation

[royal tartan]

this is super vague and missing important details. Like what does the mouse have to do with camera position?

[cursive hill]

it's a 3rd person camera so the mouse position is where the player reticle is, aka where they are looking

[royal tartan]

In a 3rd person camera the reticle is generally in the center of the screen or thereabouts

and mouse motion rotates the camera

but there is no moving cursor

unless you are doing something out of the ordinary

[cursive hill]

i guess my real question is how do i keep the 2 cameras following the mouse motion but only having one active at a time

[royal tartan]

is there a reason you need two separate cameras?

[cursive hill]

Yes each is for a separate mode the play changes to

[royal tartan]

but if you want only one camera state it should just be one camera

[cursive hill]

then is there a way that I can shift the single camera between 2 positions?

[potent mica]

still not sure how to change the red box, would appreciate the help if someone knows

[warm verge]

I found out the answer, I had to change my animations to humanoid mode

and then apply the main model's avatar on the animations

and then change the position on each animations

[molten lily]

I'm having some issues with the cinemachine camera

I am trying to get a camera follows a target by having it as its look at target

however this is for a 2d game and the camera doesn't look at the target from a 2d perspective

[molten lily]

nvm I discovered there is a cinemachine 2d camera

and it did what I wanted

[molten lily]

I have another issue now

does anyone know how I can make it so the tracked objecr offset is in world coordinates instead of target-local coordinates

It causes this weird effect when the player rotates

[potent flame]

I have 2 3rd person virtual cameras, one is slightly more zoomed in, the aim camera. they have 2 targets, one is rotating freely (so you can orbit around), one is fixed to the character and you instead rotate the camera (so when aimed in, you have more fpp-like controls) I'm switching cameras with MoveToTopOfPrioritySubqueue . Everything works as long as I run straight, orturn very slightly. Before switching priorities, I turn the player in the direction of the current camera, and align the aim camera target to the current camera target.

                    // When aiming in, the player should instantly orient towards where the camera is facing.
                    var eulerAngles = transform.rotation.eulerAngles;
                    eulerAngles.y = _cinemachineTargetYaw;
                    transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(eulerAngles);
                    CinemachineAimCameraTarget.transform.rotation = CinemachineMoveCameraTarget.transform.rotation;

                    aimCamera.MoveToTopOfPrioritySubqueue();

This looks to be working the player and camera target aligns how I want it, but right before the transition cinemachine cuts to some other position (than any of my current virtual camera positions), does this sound familiar to anyone?

[potent flame]

(turned out to be obvious, since my camera targets are children ;f the player transform, when I reorient the player, the current camera target moves with it, just nad to save the original rotation of the current camera target and reset it after)

[jade fulcrum]

If i want the VC to not follow the target in a timeline cutscene

do i have to manually make it follow null with signals?

[molten lily]

does anyone know how to access the LookAheadIgnore field on the CinemachineVirtualCameraComponent

I tried getting a reference to the CinemachineVirtualCameraComponent and accessing the field from there but it didn't give me the option to

[tranquil berry]

cam.GetCinemachineComponent<CinemachineFramingTransposer>().m_LookaheadIgnoreY

[molten lily]

thanks

[molten lily]

I am using a 2d polygon collider in my 2d game as a camera confiner to prevent the camera going into the ground

however whenever my players passes a corner in the polygon collider I'm using the camera gets stuck briefly and it creates this weird stopping effect in my levels

does anyone know how to solve this, ideally using a better collider as the confiner would work but cinemachine only lets you use polygon and composite colliders as confiners

[cursive hill]

Anyone have an idea on how I can change camera follow targets with a button press? i have T set up to "morph" cause the character changes forms and I want to change which object the cinemachine camera is following.

[royal tartan]

The better / easier / more cinemachine way to do this is to simply have two virtual cameras, one following each object

and just switch which one is active

this makes it a lot easier if you want to have different settings on each camera too

[cursive hill]

the only problem i've run into with that is that the two cameras don't follow the same movements

[royal tartan]

wdym

they follow whatever you tell them to follow

[cursive hill]

i just mean when i move the mouse with one then switch to the other the camera position resets to the position that the second camera is in, not where the mouse is

[gray kiln]

I need the camera to follow a direction of a path while also looking right behind an object, any idea how to do that?

[errant shard]

Cinemachine has out of the box tools for vcams following a path and adding an offset to their lookat target
There's no "trick" to it

[gray kiln]

thanks

[elfin phoenix]

Hello my friends, I've a question? What is the best camera between FreeLook and virtual camera (with cinnemachine) for a third person shooter gamer BUT he also have a little bit of exploration.

Because I've start a projet with a FreeLook but I'm skeptical for the 3rd person shooter part.

What do you think?

[cursive hill]

virtual camera actually has a 3rd person follow camera setting on the "body" of the virtual camera

[errant snow]

I'm having trouble finding a configuration to chase after a shaky fast moving vehicle that doesn't cause the camera to shake and wobble violently.

This is hover physics based, and I'm looking for a solution that is generally like a racing game camera, but this can drive on walls/ceilings, etc. Any recommendations?

[odd pivot]

maybe prevent rotation in direstions which you dont need?

[errant snow]

a reasonable suggestion, but this uses all rotations. it can ride on walls and ceilings.

[odd pivot]

I`m not pro, i just waiting for somebody answer my question in other tab.
In your case my solution would be to write own camera follow script, or find another one in store.
Also i noticed that there is many different cinemachine cam controllers, so maybe some othere can be good for you.

[errant shard]

It looks like the vcam copies the car's rotation instead of trying to keep the car in view, are you sure you want that?

There's no "right" way to design a follow camera but I expec you want a lookat target instead of copied rotation

[errant snow]

sorry, the recording doesn't have the full screen, I was mostly showing the wobble

[errant shard]

The camera wobbles because it copies rotation from the car which wobbles

And also causes the car to go off screen
You could fix both by using different Follow properties entirely

[errant snow]

It never goes off screen, just off recording. I was only showing the wobble in the video . I'll look for a way to dampen the rotation I still want it to follow the rotation, but it can be sluggish, particularly on X/Z.

[errant snow]

Do you have recommendations for follow properties? a follow that doesn't get the wobble, but otherwise acts like a 3rd person camera?

[errant shard]

I meant to say Look At instead of Follow there but the idea is that with 3rd person cameras you would use Composer or similar Aim properties to keep the player character or vehicle centered

Even if it doesn't go "off screen" it doesn't look good that your vehicle goes far off the screen's center, and that the camera clips into the wall

[tame plover]

Does anyone know if its possible to have a pixel perfect camera with dynamic zoom and parralax(with cinemachine) or if its possible to have only particle effects upscaled while camera moves freely

[minor berry]

Hey all, I'm trying to control the, 'Recenter To Target Heading' bool on a CinemachineVirtualCamera Orbital Transposer. The code doesn't error except when it is run. The error says:

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
CinemachineVirtualCameraRecenter.Start () (at Assets/cam/CinemachineVirtualCameraRecenter.cs:18)

From what I understand, it is already finding the component since the code doesn't have errors. This is the code currently:

using UnityEngine;
using Cinemachine;

public class CinemachineVirtualCameraRecenter : MonoBehaviour
{
    public bool enable_reCenter = false;

    CinemachineOrbitalTransposer m_VirtualCamera; //Aparrently the Orbital Transposer isn't being found here?

    void Start()
    {
        m_VirtualCamera = GetComponent<CinemachineOrbitalTransposer>();
    }

    void Update()
    {
        m_VirtualCamera.m_RecenterToTargetHeading.m_enabled = enable_reCenter;
    }
}

[royal tartan]

m_VirtualCamera = GetComponent<CinemachineOrbitalTransposer>();
This isn't going to work...

CinemachineOrbitalTransposer is not a regular component

it's a CinemachineComponent

Actually I showed you exactly how to do this last night

#💻┃code-beginner message

that still applies

[weary crest]

How does one make cinemachine render?

It doesnt seem to render to the game

[royal tartan]

Seems like you forgot to actually put a Camera in the scene

Cinemachine Brain needs to go on a real unity camera

[weary crest]

See adding one just doesn’t work

OHHHH ONN

[royal tartan]

it works fine 🤔

[weary crest]

That explains a lot

[minor berry]

Ah, I think I got it. I didn't GetComponent 'deep' enough. Like you said, Cinemachine has it's own internal component system. Thank you so much for your help! Here's the code that works in case anyone needs it:

using UnityEngine;
using Cinemachine;

public class CinemachineVirtualCameraRecenter : MonoBehaviour
{
    public bool Enable Recenter = false;

    private CinemachineOrbitalTransposer m_VirtualCamera;

    void Start()
    {
        m_VirtualCamera = GetComponent<CinemachineVirtualCamera>().GetCinemachineComponent<CinemachineOrbitalTransposer>();//<-- This is what was throwing me off. It works now!
    }

    void Update()
    {
        m_VirtualCamera.m_RecenterToTargetHeading.m_enabled = enable_reCenter;
    }
}

[royal tartan]

I'd say your m_VirtualCamera variable is poorly named

since it's an orbital transposer

but yes this will work

in my example the m_virtualCamera variable was the CinemachineVirtualCamera

[static remnant]

is it possible to make it so whenever i reach the end of my level, the camera zooms in onto the trigger that ends the level

[royal tartan]

everything is possible

simplest way to do that would be to put a virtual camera configured to look at that trigger object and activate it / set its prioerity high when the trigger is triggered.

[static remnant]

sure ill try that

[haughty vapor]

Hello guys so i have a cinemachine look at the player but when i enter the game it says no camera render why?

[royal tartan]

doesn't look like you have a camera in the scene

remember that virtual cameras are not actual cameras

you're supposed to have an actual Unity camera in the scene with the CinemachineBrain component attached to it

[haughty vapor]

oh ok

thx

[drowsy escarp]

I have a script which I am using for camera changes...I press space and the cam changes...what could I look up for how to get the perspective of the cam and have the input controls be correct?

[errant shard]

"Correct" is a vague term
Maybe you want camera-relative controls using the main camera's transform

[drowsy escarp]

I would say yes, that sounds right.

[glacial wagon]

I need help, I'm new to Cinemachine, I set up a Virtual Camera to look aat a character. The yellow dot points at the character's feet, is there a way to make it point at his chest for example? Thanks!

[glacial wagon]

can someone help me please ❤️

[errant shard]

Tracked Object Offset

[glacial wagon]

where can I find that setting? Cant seem to find it

[errant shard]

Actually let me not-crop that

Body also has its own offset

As the warning notes you need LookAt / Follow targets respectively

[glacial wagon]

Thank you so much! Have a great day!

[sick citrus]

Hi, I'm new on Cinemachine and I want to take some notes abt this package, very basic question but if I understood this well, Cinemachine is a package which can allow you to use one and only one Unity Camera for multiple things ?
I mean, if I have 423 Virtual camera and only 1 unity camera, the 423 virtual camera that I have will use this 1 unity camera ?

[fast orchid]

Virtual cameras are not real cameras, they're just objects with settings on them.

Any camera in your scene can have a CinemachineBrain component on it, which then has one of the virtual cameras you decide to give priority to, take control of that camera.

So you can have multiple cameras and multiple virtual cameras, it's up to you.

[sick citrus]

Okay, so to resume a cinemachine camera is just an object which can use a unity cam' when we authorize it to do so and I'm not forced to use one unity cam' in my project

[fast orchid]

You have to use a Unity camera because virtual cameras are not real camera, they don't render the scene.

Again, they're just settings that a Unity camera uses.

[sick citrus]

yeh but those settings include transform

so it's like an object which can use the unity cam ?

[fast orchid]

It's an object that takes over the a Unity camera that has a cinemachine brain component.

[deft kiln]

Hey guys, I've been at this unknown issue for several days and hoping I can find some answers here. My issue is that I am unable to interact with my CinemachineVirtualCamera during runtime.

**For context, I am making a minigolf demo: **
I am loading and instantiating a level which contains terrain, other misc stuff, and my 3 cameras. I have a main camera with a cinemachine brain and two virtual cameras (a stationary "hitting camera" and a camera that follows the ball).

I've tried two solutions:
1.) Is to enable the follow ball camera once the ball is hit (camera gameobject or component is disabled in the prefab), which will set that camera to go live. And once disabled, the stationary "hitting camera" would go live.
2.) Is to have both cameras enabled and simply change the priority of the follow ball camera.

This all works. However, like I mentioned, I can only enable the gameobjects or change the priority manually in the hierarchy or oddly enough, use the ContextMenu attribute to call these functions. If I hit the ball and breakpoint the function, it reaches the code and runs it with no apparent issues and no errors.

Things I've checked so far:

• Break pointed the function and it runs, but the gameobject remains disabled (same thing with attempting to change the priority)
• Ensured the layers of the two virtual cameras are included in the main cameras culling mask
• Added the context menu attribute to call these functions manually and it does work for some reason

It would make sense to me that this issue would occur if the code wasn't getting reached. But I've ensured that it is many times. I've break pointed the line of code and made sure that the gameobject is saying that it is enabled or the priority is saying that it is what I set it to (which it is), but after I step through completely, nothing has changed. This is the only place these components are accessed as well. There isn't any rogue script fighting with these methods to change values

[royal tartan]

You mentioned some prefabs in here

I wonder if your code that is supposedly modifying the cameras is actually modifying a prefab

instead of the virtual camera in the scene

one quick hacky check is to print the GetInstanceID() of the thing you are enabling. If the instance ID is positive, it's referring to a prefab.

[deft kiln]

Ah, that is a good point - I'll check this in a bit and let you know

[deft kiln]

So this seems to be what is happening - it is printing a positive ID

any ideas on what I would need to do to target the correct obj?

[royal tartan]

enable the instance in the scene rather than the prefab

When you call Instantiate it gives you a reference to the newly created instance

[deft kiln]

Ah I see what was happening - all is working now, thanks!!

[weary crest]

Is there any way to simply make sure that the Follow target of a virtual camera (using 3rd person settings) is always in view akin to skyrim, remnant, etc

Any way in the cinemachine tooling that is

I thought it would be 3rd person follow and then pov but that doesnt seem to be the answer

Nvm, its free look

[sly stirrup]

Question: I am creating an rpg where scenes will often be swapped.
Suggestion on me either using a cinemachine brain that does not get destroyed between scenes or have a new one in each scene?

[slate pumice]

I just started using cine machine for my fps game but I have a problem now, the characters orientation no longer follows the camera like it did when I was using the stock camera. now the player will only move on the fixed xyz axis

[royal tartan]

doesn't sound particularly cinemachine related

just sounds like an issue with your movement code

and if there's a difference between the character orientation and the camera orientation, it doesn't sound like you're making an FPS game

[west ore]

anybody knows how can I make my cinemachine camera ignore the time stace, this doesn't seem to work on the cinemachine brain on my camera

[royal tartan]

What interaction is happening that is respecting time scale that you want to ignore time scale?

I believe that checkbox is basically for transitions

[west ore]

I want the camera to ignore the time scale

[royal tartan]

in what sense is it following the time scale right now though?

[west ore]

yes it is following the time scale

[royal tartan]

in what way though?

Maybe show a video?

Like is it siomply following an object that is itself moving with the time scale?

Or what

explain the situation

[west ore]

to explain to you better, I have a player, when the player dies the time scale changes to 0.2, the camera also slows down, which makes it look like lag, I'm trying to find a way to slow down everything in the scene except the camera, and "Ignore Time Scale" does not seem to ignore the time scale, also if I record a video it won't be smooth, since my laptop is not that strong, also I don't quite understand when you said "in what way"

[royal tartan]

What happens with the camera when the player dies?

Does it transition to another camera?

[west ore]

no it doesn't

[royal tartan]

So isn't it just not moving when the player dies?

[west ore]

when the player is moving, the camera is following him from behind, and when the player stops, the camera is still moving to get to the center of the player, so when the player dies, the camera is still moving

I can send you the game to better understand my problem

[gleaming sluice]

I just discovered Unity Recorder and have a question.
So I have my primary camera using for gameplay on Display 1.
Then I added a camera that "films" the player character moving around - I set this camera to Display 2 so I can still play the game on Display 1.
However it seems even to I set the filmcamera in the Recorder settings the visuals are not recorded because the filming camera was not set to Display 1.

What is the correct way to achieve recording while playing the game

[royal tartan]

I have only ever used the recorder with a single camera

THough I guess I understand if you want a different camera angle than the one that you play the game with

I guess - i'm unsure why this is a cinemachine question?

Is cinemachine involved somehow?

[gleaming sluice]

Well no but I couldn't find any channel related to cameras than this one

Any suggestions where I should ask rather than here?

[weary crest]

Is there any way to switch cameras without gameObject.SetActive on every individual camera

[royal tartan]

use cinemachine virtual cameras rather than physical cameras

and you can use their Priority to switch

[weary crest]

But how does it know which camera to use? Do I need a cinemachine brain on each individual camera?

[weary crest]

Nvm I got it I think

[royal tartan]

no

there is only one real camera

[weary crest]

So I tried this implementation and it throws an error

https://hatebin.com/otgudgvfnn

Parameter name: index
UnityEngine.InputSystem.Utilities.ReadOnlyArray`1[TValue].get_Item (System.Int32 index) (at ./Library/PackageCache/com.unity.inputsystem@1.6.3/InputSystem/Utilities/ReadOnlyArray.cs:152)
Cinemachine.CinemachineInputProvider.ResolveForPlayer (System.Int32 axis, UnityEngine.InputSystem.InputActionReference actionRef) (at ./Library/PackageCache/com.unity.cinemachine@2.9.7/Runtime/Helpers/CinemachineInputProvider.cs:93)
Cinemachine.CinemachineInputProvider.GetAxisValue (System.Int32 axis) (at ./Library/PackageCache/com.unity.cinemachine@2.9.7/Runtime/Helpers/CinemachineInputProvider.cs:51)
Cinemachine.AxisState.Update (System.Single deltaTime) (at ./Library/PackageCache/com.unity.cinemachine@2.9.7/Runtime/Core/AxisState.cs:220)
Cinemachine.CinemachineFreeLook.InternalUpdateCameraState (UnityEngine.Vector3 worldUp, System.Single deltaTime) (at ./Library/PackageCache/com.unity.cinemachine@2.9.7/Runtime/Behaviours/CinemachineFreeLook.cs:376)
Cinemachine.CinemachineCore.UpdateVirtualCamera (Cinemachine.CinemachineVirtualCameraBase vcam, UnityEngine.Vector3 worldUp, System.Single deltaTime) (at ./Library/PackageCache/com.unity.cinemachine@2.9.7/Runtime/Core/CinemachineCore.cs:361)
Cinemachine.CinemachineCore.UpdateAllActiveVirtualCameras (System.Int32 layerMask, UnityEngine.Vector3 worldUp, System.Single deltaTime) (at ./Library/PackageCache/com.unity.cinemachine@2.9.7/Runtime/Core/CinemachineCore.cs:279)
Cinemachine.CinemachineBrain.UpdateVirtualCameras (Cinemachine.CinemachineCore+UpdateFilter updateFilter, System.Single deltaTime) (at ./Library/PackageCache/com.unity.cinemachine@2.9.7/Runtime/Behaviours/CinemachineBrain.cs:493)...```

[royal tartan]

you assigned an input action which is not set up as a 2D vector to the xy axis

[weary crest]

So how do you guage that from the error? It says the index is the issue.

[royal tartan]

Player/Look is the action you assigned

this is... Controls/Camera?

Seems like a totally different input action asset

[weary crest]

I fixed that, same error

[royal tartan]

show the action you assigned

that's the same screenshot

[weary crest]

sorry

Now this is the right one

[royal tartan]

player index being -1 maybe?

https://forum.unity.com/threads/cinemachine-freelook-input-provider-incorrect-index.992517/

not really sure

[weary crest]

So I set them OnNetworkSpawn to the clientID, so at very least they are in the scene

[royal tartan]

ahah

it's a networked game

figures

[royal tartan]

i think this is probably not right?

do the player objects have PlayerInput?

if not you should probably leave it as -1

[weary crest]

Do you mean PlayerInput as in the component?

[royal tartan]

that's the only thing called PlayerInput

[weary crest]

They all have my input handler

Maybe I should refactor to unity's solution?

The current issue is that the camera attaches to the most recent player connected

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.cinemachine@2.8/api/Cinemachine.CinemachineInputProvider.html

[weary crest]

Let me see what I can do

[weary crest]

So I completely refactored over to this component and It has the same persistent issue.

[royal tartan]

idk but this is really not a camera issue at this point

[weary crest]

Think I should move over to #archived-networking ?

[bright zodiac]

Using a dolly track, is there a way for the virtual camera to always be looking at the next waypoint? Or do I need to code (or animate) that manually?

[pastel glen]

Always looking at the next point would cause some weird behavior as you got close to a node, wouldn't it?

Though you could probably code something to do it fairly simply, by taking the position and placing a target at the next node in the path.

[molten lily]

I have been using cinemachine for my 2D game and have had some issues where the camera in good positions whenever the player is ascending or descending hills. I have an idea for a fix which is to make it so the characters Y displacement on the camera changes as they go up and down hills, causing the camera to adjust depending on the terrain. I am considering programming my own cinemachine extension but I want to make sure that there isn't a pre-built way I could use to achieve this. I'm still quite new to cinemachine and haven't yet learned what all of the parts do.

[errant shard]

How should it "adjust"? That part didn't seem clear to me

[molten lily]

so when the player is travelling up s hill

I want the camera to move up a bit so the player is in the bottom left corner of it

which will allow you to see as much of the hill they are going up as you can

but when they are travelling down a hill I want them to be in the top left corner of the camera

so you can see as far downhill as you can

Here is a diagram of what happens

Here is what I want to happen

you can see more of the hill in the second diagram

that is what I want the camera to see but currently it sees the first diagram

[faint rapids]

Can you use cinemachine on gameobjects that are NOT unity cameras? Asking because there's a 3P VR streaming app called LIV that handles its own camera stuff, but I'd like to use cinemachine to control its associated object

[last chasm]

Hey, I'm using cinemachine to make a third person controller, but my game is lagging as fuck :

I don't know what informations should I give

[errant shard]

Does the game "lag" in both scene window and game window when you have them side by side
If not, that suggests there's a timing issue with the camera's following, most likely its target is moving at fixedupdate

[last chasm]

Sorry,
It seems that its not lagging anymore

[distant mesa]

Respected,
1- I am using cinemachine virtual camera..
how i can move gameObject to the center of camera...
bcz main camera position change with given time.
i am using camra.screenpoint...

[royal tartan]

myObject.transform.position = myCamera.transform.TransformPoint(Vector3.forward * desiredDistance);```

[willow zephyr]

hello

cinemachine lookahead time doesnt work with lookahead smoothing

if i set the lookahead time to maximum with zero smoothing, it works fine but as soon as i increase the smoothing to even the lowest setting, it stops working and the camera doesnt look ahead

fix?

[forest flame]

hello, i'm a beginner with unity and learning how to use cinemachine in a basic 2D game where the camera follows the player (which is working great so far)
now i am trying to add bounds to confine the camera as explained here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1-DOaHU5D4
i have been following tutorials and reading up on how to get this to work, but every time as soon as i put a bounding shape in the confiner component, my camera starts to move away.
the movement seems to speed up if i use my mouse or keyboard, and if i don't touch anything it stops moving for a bit...
i would really appreciate help if anyone has run into this problem before

maybe it could be that it's colliding with the player

[forest flame]

whoa it's been four hours, i figured it out - i had the camera and the collider as children of the main camera when they were supposed to be on their own

[regal badge]

Comparing the basic camera script i use to cinemachine,
how do i make it so the cinemachine camera doesn't rotate like this? It makes movement feel really odd because it stops the W key from moving you upwards etc. Is there a way to just lock it like the first camera script does?

only reason i swap to try cinemachine is to stop it from looking through walls when youre nearby
but that doesnt even work properly, (i probably did something wrong but still)

[royal tartan]

just a matter of setting up the follow settings properly

you didn't actually show your vCam configuration so... that would be a good first step

[regal badge]

this stuff?

[royal tartan]

yes that stuff - to fix it you will need to change the Body and Aim settings

you might just want a Framing Transposer for Body and Do Nothing for the Aim

[regal badge]

Was able to get a nicer camera, I'll look into reading the zoom functionality later

Issue Rn is the character rotation that was working fine before makes it go haywire

[thick quartz]

How can I make a confiner that for the bottom left and top left areas the red area is only visible. But in the bottom right the yellow area should be visible. I've tried making polygon colliders differently but the best I got was getting the red area to work.

i might just change the collider in a script

its not working

wait it worked

[mystic remnant]

When I created the build of my game the camera is zoomed in for some reason

I don't now if cinemachine is the issue but I am using it for my camera

The aspet ration is right so I don't know what's causing the issue

[carmine mesa]

How do I set up multiple cinemachine to track different things, they just keep tracking the same thing

my current setup

[royal tartan]

Your virtual cameras shouldn't be children of the Unity cameras

And:
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.cinemachine@3.0/manual/CinemachineMultipleCameras.html

Or for older versions:
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.cinemachine@2.9/manual/CinemachineMultipleCameras.html

[carmine mesa]

I ended up following a tutorial on splitscreen and turns out I had to use layers

[royal tartan]

Yes the second link explains that

[meager ermine]

Hey everyone, i have a little problem with cinemachine. The thing is that i setup the way i wanted, but when i hit play and place the mouse in the center of the screen (doing this quickly before the game runs), the camera goes looking down from start. Also, if i hit play and leave the mouse in the 'Play' button, the camera starts how i want it.

The thing is, there is a way to start the game, place the mouse in the center of the screen, and avoid the camera moving from the start?

I don't know if i explain myself in the correct way

[fast orchid]

You can maybe try https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/CursorLockMode.Locked.html

[meager ermine]

I have it already

Thats why i dont understand what is not going good

[spice stirrup]

Try putting it in Awake() instead of start maybe
If even that doesn't work, try starting with disabled cinemachine, and enable it after locking the cursor, in start perhaps

[solemn tide]

Hello, I've been trying to use Cinemachine's POV aim for an FPS and right now I'm getting this extremely jittery/rigid camera movement. It's like it can't move diagonally. Does anyone have any idea on how to fix it?

[lyric bane]

Hey, I am using Cinemachine for some screenshake when shooting weapons. It looks fine when standing still & moving horizontally. But when I move forward & backwards the screen shake seems less strong.
My impulse source is type Uniform and the shape is the default Recoil shape.
I give my camera's forward direction in GenerateImpulseWithVelocity() along with a multiplier

Anyone have any idea how I can keep the screenshake consisten when moving horizontally, standing still and when moving forward?

[steep fern]

using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using Cinemachine;

public class CameraSwitch : MonoBehaviour
{
    private bool ADSmode = false;
    [SerializeField] CinemachineVirtualCamera TPScam;
    [SerializeField] Transform Ironsight;
    [SerializeField] Transform _Player;

    private void Start()
    {
        TPScam = GetComponent<CinemachineVirtualCamera>();
    }

    void Update()
    {

    }

    private void ScopedIn()
    {
        if (ADSmode == false && Input.GetMouseButton(1))
        {
            ADSmode = true;
        }

        else
        {
            ADSmode = false;
        }

        if (ADSmode == true)
        {
            TPScam.Follow = Ironsight;
            TPScam.LookAt = null;
        }

        else if (ADSmode == false)
        {
            TPScam.Follow = _Player;
            TPScam.LookAt = _Player;
        }
    }

}```

Im trying to change the follow and lookat values of cinemachinevirtual camera....can someone tell me the correct way to code it in ?

[royal tartan]

The Cinemachine way to do this is to delete most of this code. Make two virtual cameras. One configured as normal, one configured for ADS

Then you just switch between them

either by changing their priorities or enable/disable

[steep fern]

i used to do that by changing priorities

[royal tartan]

yes that's the Cinemachine way

[steep fern]

but i had inaccuracy in aiming

[royal tartan]

wdym by inaccuracy

[steep fern]

i tried to get help

[steep fern]

holdon

https://img.guildedcdn.com/ContentMediaGenericFiles/7577384d0f3acc2f6f7f2193007f1ba7-Full.mp4?w=1920&h=1080

ill send you an updated video in a second

[royal tartan]

but this is more a problem of your scene setup etc than anything to do with cinemachine

the third person perspective/center of screen is never going to align perfectly with the first person perspective through the muzzle

especially since it looks like you're positioning the crosshair in the center of the screen rather than, for example, wherever the gun is pointing

[steep fern]

i tried to store raycast hit point of third person camera and make the ads camera rotate towars that hitpoint

but my coding is wrong

[royal tartan]

so fix your code 🤔

[royal tartan]

doing this isn't going to change/fix anything

other than being more complex

[steep fern]

yeah my bad...ill give u an updated video in a sec

https://paste.myst.rs/4u43yn8i

this is my code

https://img.guildedcdn.com/ContentMediaGenericFiles/6657f2e0a1f5dda89daa236243b8c486-Full.mp4?w=1920&h=1080

this is what it looks like

this is what i did with raycast

[unkempt forge]

I feel like lookat should be right below the raycast that produces TargetPoint

Or right below the other raycast and use TargetPointADS

But this is without knowing what you actually want

[steep fern]

ignore targetpointADS its irrelevant

[steep fern]

my ADS camera (aim down site) is not pointing at where my TPS cam (third person camera)was aiming at

thats the issue

[unkempt forge]

Hmmm, can you try moving the raycast that gives TargetPoint out of the if check, in front of both these if checks

TargetPoint isn't updating properly, it looks like.

Is my wild guess

[steep fern]

someone said this...see if it makes any sense
i did not understand what this person was trying to say tho

[unkempt forge]

Ohhh... maybe they mean because there is no mouseposition passed into the raycast? It is just tpscam.transform.forward?

Not really sure otherwise...

Or what that would change

I feel like that's what you WANT...

Hmmm

[steep fern]

when i put it here...it doesnt work....the gameplay becomes laggy and shi

[unkempt forge]

Yeaaah. Sorry now that I understand better, I guess that would be a bad suggestion

I'm not sure the solution, because I feel the view would always shift somewhat. The origin will be different, so you have to find a fixed point where the raycasts would meet, but it would meet and diverge, so if you are too close or far, you would have the same issue.

At the moment, look at is using a point one unit in front of your camera, so not great. Maybe try multiplying tpscam.transform.forward by like... 5 and see if that at least lessons the issue

[steep fern]

gameplay was laggy bc my laptop was unplugged my bad

[unkempt forge]

Oh ok. Still not sure if that's a good change anymore

But definitely play around with it

[steep fern]

im a beginner....can you tell me what you mean by "tpscam.transform.forward by like... 5 "

[unkempt forge]

Yeah one sec

Sorry
Forget all that

Just realized how dumb that is.
You're using a raycasthit

[steep fern]

i dont think that did anything

[unkempt forge]

The point would be the same

[steep fern]

wonder how people usually do this with cinemachine

[unkempt forge]

Should be

[steep fern]

but it isnt 😭

[steep fern]

still no fix

🥲

[past prairie]

Running into an issue where my Raycasts are lagging behind the camera. I can solve this by changing the script execution order or by using CameraUpdatedEvent. I've opted for using CameraUpdatedEvent with my own abstraction using delegates to hide the CM from everywhere.

This means that some update code is getting split into a pre and post raycast sections with the post raycast logic actually happening in the LateUpdate phase or after due to the CM callback. This hasn't been a problem yet, but kinda worried this will introduce some subtle bug and just feels a bit messy to reason about.

So I'm wondering how others have solved this and if there is a better approach.

[half shuttle]

I have one issue with the confiner 2D component
I have a camera which matches the size of the polygon closely, but if I don't use "oversize window" it won't get confined, but when I do use it a bit of extra empty space gets added either on the top or on the side
Is there a way to have the camera be centered on the middle of the bounding shape so it won't show stuff from outside of the intended area?

[daring gull]

Can anyone help me? I can't get my camera to follow the yaw of a gameobject!

[royal tartan]

can you explain exactly whaat you mean by "following the yaw"?

[daring gull]

The eyes are parented to the player which is rotating horizontally only. But the camera isn't following the yaw (y axis rotation).

I'm only getting the expected vertically camera movement, but I expect the horizontal to come from the camera following the rotation of the eyes.

[royal tartan]

well POV is only going to respond to input

since it's not actually a child or anything of the object

it won't follow the object's rotation

[daring gull]

Ok, so my issue is rotating the character with the camera.

That's why I'm trying to handle the rotation seperately.

Because the player needs to rotate in the direction they're moving.

[royal tartan]

generally for FPS games I just make the vcam a child of the player

set body and aim to "Do Nothing"

and just handle the rotations manually

e.g. it will inherit the player's rotation

and you can do the looking up and down in code by rotating the camera's local X axis rotation

[daring gull]

Ok, thank you 🙂

Is it a bad idea to get a reference to the virtual camera for working out which direction to move @royal tartan?

[rotund moth]

I have 2 cameras. One in perspective mode that can only see the background layer, and an orthogonal one that renders everything else. Anybody has an idea on why it doesn't render the background?

[neat sun]

because, you have two cameras, and the game isn't the best at merging two cameras into 1 like how a human could visualize it to be, so it just shows one camera
idk how to fix it, so if you're following a tutorial watch the tutorial, gl

[rotund moth]

I followed the tutorial but it's about 3D and I couldn't find one specifically for 2D. Anyway I followed every step and it's still not working so does someone have an actual helpful answer?

Or a tip on what to look up or some other tutorial to watch?

[neat sun]

this guy says to set the clear flag of a camera to depth only, and another guy wrote an essay on something about culling mask. if these aren't helpful try to search up something along the lines of "how to combine cameras" or "how to add 2D platformer backgrounds" (ignore what he's saying about perspective and orthographic cameras, if you want it to be perspective then set it that way, it shouldn't affect this)

[rotund moth]

Okay I think I managed to fix it, thank you. But now I have a small rendering glitch that makes transparent lines appear between tiles everywhere like this:

Sometimes it seldom happened before but now it's pretty much everywhere

[neat sun]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW53YIjhQsA

[rotund moth]

Thank you so much

[stable forum]

good evening people

why sometimes when i move the cursor in some timeline i cant see animations moving?

[half shuttle]

Is there a way to stop the camera from going through walls in 2D?
As I'm having an issue with the confiner due to the camera moving slightly when the bounds are of similar size, and it not working at all if the bounds are smaller

[night skiff]

how do i change the sensitivity via code? i looked in the documentation for the field that im supposed to reference and couldnt find it

[pseudo cipher]

Hi, when I tried to move the player, the tile map background get dragged out and follow? Im not sure how to describe it. I am not entirely sure if this is a cinemachine fault or tilemap or something else. I have no idea why this happened. Can someone helps me please 😭. Thanks!

[errant shard]

Your camera background is uninitialized

[pseudo cipher]

Hi, Im not entirely sure what that mean, could you explain further? or is there any document that I can read on it. Thank you! 😭

[errant shard]

There isn't all that much to explain
Change your camera component's background to something other than uninitialized

Otherwise it repeats the rendered pixels as you see

[pseudo cipher]

oh I see ......

Thank you ......

that was such a dumb mistake ....

[night skiff]

how do i change sensitivity via code?

[errant shard]

which sensitivity

[night skiff]

like the speed of the looking

[errant shard]

Of what type of vcam?

[night skiff]

POV

and the clamping too

[errant shard]

https://forum.unity.com/threads/changing-speed-for-virtual-camera.1287944/

[night skiff]

thanks!

[errant shard]

I assume clamps are ...m_HorizontalAxis.m_MinValue and MaxValue
VerticalAxis for vertical

[fluid compass]

I was wondering if anyone good with Cinemachine would help with me trying to replicate a camera from a game I like, been trying for ages and cant get it to act/look 1-for-1.

[errant shard]

Game Window Guides enabled, then maximize Aim field

[outer imp]

Ive been working on this project for 2month and Ive never had this problem before but last night everthing thats a child to my maincamera is really blurry/jitters when I move around
All my scripts are turned off and post processing aswell...
https://i.gyazo.com/29a7d3438aba4c3b65cc9161446ab77e.mp4

it even happens if I create a default cube and make the main camera its parent

[royal tartan]

looks like motion blur

[outer imp]

the background isnt affected tho

and like I said everything is turned off

https://i.gyazo.com/2599b0484da9024ceb3c0e752e46fcab.mp4 as you can see, the background is clear

wow nvm.. somehow the motion blur in the default HDRP settings got enabled.. super wierd

thanks!

xD

[reef snow]

What camera settings are needed to replicate a shot to look like this?

[royal tartan]

unclear what you're asking about

the lighting?

The camera angle?

[reef snow]

camera angle

blade runner 2049 was filmed using a spherical Zeiss Master Prime lenses on the Alexa XT Studio in ARRIRAW

[royal tartan]

Are you just asking how to get two subjects composed properly?

or what

[royal tartan]

Cinemachine is really a tool for positioning and orienting cameras. It doesn't have all that much to do with physical rendering stuff

[reef snow]

Yeah, wondering how to get an effect like a spherical lense

[royal tartan]

HDRP has a lot of settings for the physical camera aspects:
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.high-definition@14.0/manual/HDRP-Camera.html#PhysicalCamera

[reef snow]

messing around with my post proccessing stack adding some distortion

Just cant get a good replication

[reef snow]

Your gonna make me convert to hdrp just for these settings haha

[royal tartan]

the other option is to modify the Camera's projection matrix manually. That would also require understanding the math I guess so idk exactly how to do that

[wanton ice]

Cinemachine is awesome, it was the only way I could get my camera to follow the car properly, the freelook feature is awesome

[warm verge]

My virtual cameras don't work after reloading the scene.

using DontDestroyOnLoad() BTW

how do you reassign the virtualcamera after the scene reloads?

[royal tartan]

wdym by "reassign"

in what way are they not working?

The Cinemachine Brain will always find and use the enabled virtual camera with the highest priority.

[timber mica]

Hello there 👋

I have an issue and I don't know what's happening:

I use 2 Virtuals Cameras, one set as 3d Person Follow, and the other one as Framing Transposer.
Both have options to avoid Obstacles:
The 3rd Person Follow has options set direclty in its Body parameters
The Framing Composer has the Collider extension

The Obstacles detection works great individually but as soon as I Blend between the 2, the transition pass through my Obstacles :/
Is it the intended behavior ?

[royal tartan]

The blend unfortunately has no collision logic afaik
https://forum.unity.com/threads/cinemachine-collider-and-blend-issues.567847/#post-7278397

[timber mica]

Indeed, I finally found an old post about it :/

I didn't find the cylindric one though !
I would have git it a try but I'm working on a solution using Cinemachine Mixing Camera for some times now ( https://forum.unity.com/threads/cinemachine-virtua-camera-transitions-need-more-blending-options-in-particular-speed.976572/) ^^
Thanks

[timber mica]

Ok I used a Cinemachine Mixing Camera with a Cinemachine Collider and my cameras have both a LookAt target.
I still have collision issues :/
Cinemachine Mixin Camera passes through my terrain.
Does Cinemachine Collider works with Terrain to begin with ?

[royal tartan]

if the terrain has a TerrainCollider it should

[timber mica]

It has, but it has really big slopes too.
Here is what it looks like:

So maybe my case is too extreme for Cinemachine Collider

[digital raven]

Hello! Juste a little question, am I the only one to experience numerous problems with the most recent version of cinemachine?

One of these problems is that all my cameras were reset during the update. Secondly, some settings are reset as soon as I start the game, and others when I stop it. Finally, I was told that some of the scripts could not be found. I've already tried reinstalling it several times without success.

oh and I don't know why these scripts add themselves either (plus it's the same one)

[digital tinsel]

Yeah I've been having the most random problems pop up when I instill and use it the same way as before. It's almost like it's bugged, but idk 🤷‍♂️

[ivory wraith]

I'm considering bumping my project to Cinemachine 3.0, because I'm kinda...rewriting the entire game from scratch right now

so I'm replacing all of my virtual camera work anyway

I noticed that 3.0 is still on a -pre-* version, though

is it not meant for production use yet?

[languid forge]

cinemachine is so cool

idk im completely new to it and it seems awesome

[shadow ice]

How do i change camera angle

figured it out

[errant shard]

The vcam.m_Lens struct should have all the lens settings for you to modify
https://forum.unity.com/threads/is-there-really-no-way-to-directly-access-and-change-a-virtual-cameras-focal-length-via-script.1324338/

[royal tartan]

m_lens is a property of CinemachineVirtualCamera

[ivory wraith]

Yeah, that's because the FreeLook camera is its own special class

You'll have to downcast to your specific type

I don't recall having this problem when modifying the lens state.

hmm

e.g.

            ActiveCamera.Lens.Dutch = -lean * 10;
            ActiveCamera.Lens.FieldOfView = CameraUtil.FOV * cameraFOVFactor;

(this is 3.0, so the names are different)

note that ActiveCamera is a reference to a specific virtual camera

Oh right.

The "state" is computed from the cameras.

So I don't think you'll have any luck by editing that

But I bet you can use one of the pipeline callbacks to modify the state.

(i am scrounging around for this)

ah, I was thinking of another thing #🎥┃cinemachine message

I am pretty sure you can stick yourself into different parts of the cinemachine pipeline, though...

actually, I should ask

what are you trying to do here? permanently change the player's FOV, or do some kind of temporary effect?

[devout girder]

whats the problem with the camera ?

why does it only show the blocks

[royal tartan]

Probably just due to the position of the blocks relative to the camera.

Don't forget that z position matters too

(not really cinemachine related)

[devout girder]

where should i post stuff like that ?

[royal tartan]

#💻┃unity-talk

[ionic trench]

Hey, is there someone that can help me about my project? I'm new and thats my first time using unity 😅

Thats the camera view from the scene view

But in game the camera is changing size and i cant do nothing about it

when im trying to edit size it automaticly cancel my changes

Does anyone know what should I do?

[royal tartan]

since you are using cinemachine you have to make changes to the camera via the virtual camera @ionic trench

not your actual unity camera

[ionic trench]

i got this problem before adding cinemashine ;/

[royal tartan]

Maybe i'm not understanding the issue

What are you trying to change that isn't working exactly @ionic trench ?

[ionic trench]

this white square

should be a camera that player see

[ionic trench]

but as u can see when i start the game the camera is totally diffrent

[errant shard]

Pixel Perfect Camera component determines camera size based on PPU and reference resolution values given to it

[ionic trench]

ohhh

thank u mate

[ionic trench]

@errant shard but there is a problem

what should I do now to change this camera?

Because when im going to change pixels per unit the texture of character is getting little wide

[errant shard]

Your sprites should all be authored and standardized to a specific PPU and the pixel perfect camera component should also share this PPU value

Change the reference resolution instead to modify camera size

[ivory wraith]

I'm getting a "This camera is trying to look at itself" when using "Hard Lock to Target" and "Same as Follow Target" in CM 3.0

Blends that into this camera behave oddly. They violently rotate right at the end.

oh, I see; the warning is probably because the Eyes transform has the same parent as the camera, and is at [0,0,0]

i moved the Eyes a little and it's no longer giving that warning. Blends are still jerking, though.

The instant the blend starts, the camera orientation changes significantly.

all of my other blends (including first-person cameras configured the same way) act fine.

if I set one of those first-person cams to use this entity's eyes transform, it's fine.

wack

Ah. If I enabled the 'use separate look target' option, it revealed that it was also set to look at the Eyes

and this somehow made it really mad

(incidentally, you have to click that little gear icon a seemingly-random number of times to get it to respond)

[errant shard]

Hmm I don't think I fully understand what the problem was but it seems there's at least one bug at play here
I wouldn't expect CM3.0 to be fully ironed out yet

[ivory wraith]

basically, leaving a look-at target assigned was causing the blend to get a bogus final rotation

so it would smoothly blend in, then abruptly snap to the actual rotation of the vcam

[errant shard]

Doesn't sound like something that should happen in any case, unless I misunderstand what those particular settings do

[ivory wraith]

Yeah.

The tricky part was that I had the "Look At Target" field hidden

[ionic trench]

Does anyone know how to fix this one?

[errant shard]

Don't render at an odd numbered resolution as it says
Stick to a fixed resolution for the game window that's a multiple of the pixel perfect reference resolution

and/or enable crop frame

[verbal pier]

Any way for a target group to target both an object in its scene and an object in DontDestroyOnLoad?

[royal tartan]

the target group can target any object, doesn't matter what scene it's in

You can add members to the group with:
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.cinemachine@2.9/api/Cinemachine.CinemachineTargetGroup.html#Cinemachine_CinemachineTargetGroup_AddMember_UnityEngine_Transform_System_Single_System_Single_
and remove them with:
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.cinemachine@2.9/api/Cinemachine.CinemachineTargetGroup.html#Cinemachine_CinemachineTargetGroup_RemoveMember_UnityEngine_Transform_

[verbal pier]

that's what I'm doing

it doesn't work

well I mean

it wasn't working at runtime and when I assigned the other object from the editor it wasn't letting me add it so I thought it was not possible at all. Maybe it's just that we can't do it in the editor but we can at runtime

[ivory wraith]

You can't assign references across scenes in the editor.

but I'm not sure how you'd actually have stuff in the DDOL scene at edit time..

[verbal pier]

the DDOL objects start in their own scene

but yeah idk why I tried to assign something in another scene...

I think it works now but it's not optimal with pixel perfect. I don't think I can use target groups sadly

[royal tartan]

You can do it at runtime, no problem

it's only not possible at edit time

it's just a matter of getting the appropriate references , which is really a question that has nothing to do with Cinemachine itself

[verbal pier]

yep I had that done

it was just not working because I was checking if the Follow property was null before replacing it by the target group. Though I had forgot to make the property null in edit mode

I won't use target group anyways, because with pixel perfect it doesn't work like I want it to

[grave sonnet]

how do i set the cinemachine camera target when a player spawns into a multiplayer game

it's fine if it's already got a reference to the player in the inspector, but if I spawn them in dynamically it loses the reference

[royal tartan]

Same way you assign any reference tbh.

But honestly the best way to do this in cinemachine is just to include a vCam in the player prefab

[grave sonnet]

what's a vCam? i've only ever used regular unity cameras, never cinemachine

[royal tartan]

virtual camera

sort of the basic building block of cinemachine...

[grave sonnet]

i thought cinemachine was just a bunch of libraries that handle things like camera rotation and switching. is a virtual camera different from a regular camera?

[royal tartan]

Yees that's what cinemachine does and the way it handles doing that is through virtual cameras.

I think it's better if you just read this:
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.cinemachine@2.9/manual/CinemachineUsing.html

[ember basin]

is it a common issue for cinemachine to be extremely jerky?

3D specifically. I'm trying to do a follow cam for a faster paced racing game and good god is it jerky af.

Got the rigidbody set to interpolate and i've tried just about every update method

I heard that default fixedupdated runs at 50hz and I upped it to run as close to 60 as possible and it definitely helped but didn't completely get rid of the issue

[royal tartan]

Is your object moving via Rigidbody? You will never be able to force a fixed framerate

What works is turning on Rigidbody interpolation

[ember basin]

Rigidbody is set to interpolate

[royal tartan]

And using smart update or late update on the cinemachine brain

But how are you moving it

[ember basin]

smart update helps but is not smooth

movement is handled in fixed update

[royal tartan]

How

Show the code

!code

[marble yacht]

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[royal tartan]

Can you show more code? Perhaps the full script? There's a lot of missing information here

And please share as per ^

[ember basin]

It's kind of a lot

[royal tartan]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[ember basin]

The results change when i mess with the timestep

[royal tartan]

Yeah because you have some kind of framerate sensitive motion going on

Basically this doesn't seem like a cinemachine issue

It seems like an issue with your player movement

[ember basin]

How do you make movement non framerate sensitive?

It's already in fixedupdate

[royal tartan]

Hard to answer without seeing your code

#🎥┃cinemachine message

[ember basin]

did i not do it correctly?

[royal tartan]

You didn't follow the instructions for sharing the code, no

[ember basin]

https://hastebin.com/share/biyifeficu.csharp

here you go

[royal tartan]

Well for one this is extremely complex. Hard to really tell what's going on here.

There's also a ton of weird broken Lerps like:
delayedVelocity = Vector3.Lerp(delayedVelocity.normalized, transform.forward.normalized, modifiedLerpTime * Time.deltaTime); which are both not really lerping correctly and probably should be Slerps.

Then there's bits like the mixing of AddForce with the direct velocity modification.

I don't know precisely what the root cause here is but there's a bunch of possibilities

[ember basin]

What do you mean by not lerping correctly?

There's a single AddForce, might have been a leftover I meant to get rid of but either way, I commented it out and no change.
And yes, my movement script is extremely complex as I warned

And besides the other "broken lerp" you posted above, what other broken lerps are there?

I'm not sure what you mean by broken because they all work exactly as I intend

Just tried using slerp and there was no difference

[ivory wraith]

Your lerp is framerate-dependent.

and I know, it has deltaTime in it, yes,

imagine two scenarios where I run this code a few times:

t = Mathf.Lerp(t, 1, Time.deltaTime);

at 1 FPS, t will go from 0 to 1 in a single step

because Time.deltaTime is 1

at 2 FPS, t will go from 0 to 0.5 to 0.75 to 0.875 to ...

after one second, it will be at 0.75

big difference!

[ember basin]

Is there a way to make it frame rate independent? This pretty much goes against everything I know about fixed update and time.deltaTime

[errant shard]

Of course there is
time.deltaTime is simply the time since last frame
With that data you can scale the magnitude of any value change to correspond to time during which that change happens
But it's up to you to get the math right, the variable doesn't inherently make anything fps-independent

[ember basin]

I’m really confused looool

I think that implies that my lerp is scaled to time correctly?

This lerp is in FixedUpdate btw

[errant shard]

Well that seems to explain why your character is stuttering

FixedUpdate runs (in most situations) less often than Update so your character's position is updated less frequently than your camera

At least assuming your rigidbody position is being set somewhere in there as well

If not, interpolation should fix it

[ember basin]

Yes, that is something I’ve been realizing. When I change my time step to happen more frequently, the jerky movements become less prominent. Just to test it, I set the fixed time step to 600hz and it looks great but obviously I don’t want to have to do that just to have non-jerky movement. Interpolation has been on this entire time but doesn’t seem to smooth it out completely. Even tried putting a rigid body with interpolation on the camera but nothing.

[ivory wraith]

my example demonstrates why this happens.

[ember basin]

Ok I see what you're saying now. It's exponential, not linear. It will never technically reach its target, just decreasingly get closer and closer.

[glad remnant]

i am so lost... there is only one camera in my scene. it doesnt use it for game view, but i can see the frustrum gizmo, and it moves when i move the mouse. whats going on?

[glad remnant]

changing any of the camera properties in the inspector at runtime turns things like they should be, game window beign the camera output, but only unil i stop playing

[glad remnant]

i fixed it by removing a rigidbody component that was on the camera for some reason

[ivory wraith]

that'll cause problems

[covert junco]

hello, i'm currently working on a drag race type of game and i'm having issues with a cinemachine target group camera. I dynamically add two cars to the list of objects i want to keep in frame through code and then the problem i'm having is that when one of the cars gets slightly further ahead then the other car it will zoom in on the car that is ahead and the other car will not be in view anymore. i will show the settings i'm using and an example of the zoom in thing that's happening.

[past forum]

I can't get this thing to do anything it's supposed to.

[ivory wraith]

Have you assigned the track to the camera?

You have the "Body" section folded up in the inspector.

also, you will not be able to set the position or rotation of the object with the Camera component -- that's getting controlled by Cinemachine

but you should be able to set the rotation of the object with the CinemachineVirtualCamera component just fine

[past forum]

I don't see body anywhere...

[ivory wraith]

Right here.

Assign a CinemachineSmoothPath there.

[ivory wraith]

Adjusting the Path Position should now make the vcam move along the track

[past forum]

its following the track

[ivory wraith]

which, in turn, will move the main camera if the vcam is live

[past forum]

but facing the wrong way

[ivory wraith]

Then adjust the vcam's rotation

You can also set the camera to Follow that "Dolly Cart" object and put it in the "Hard Lock To Target" Body mode

The Dolly Cart can then be set to move at a constant speed along the track

[past forum]

I deleted it and remade it once since I had it moving... I attached it a different way that time... Trying to find the set speed

[past forum]

I don't seem to have that under my camera....

[ivory wraith]

It's not under the camera.

This was created by the "Dolly Track with Cart" option

It spawns both a Dolly Track and Dolly Cart.

[past forum]

Ah see, the first time I attached the script to the camera

this time i made a path, but theres no cart

I did dolly cam with track

[ivory wraith]

If you want the camera to automatically move along the track, then either:

• Put it in TrackedDolly mode and assign the path, then use a script to change the position
• Put it in HardLockToTarget mode and make it follow the cart, which will move on its own if it's speed is non-zero

[ivory wraith]

Okay, that's different. That spawns a path and a camera that's pre-configured to use it

[past forum]

except for some reason it wont spawn a camera and I have to modify the main camera to use it... which ive done

but now its still not moving

[ivory wraith]

You shouldn't have to touch the "main camera" whatsoever

[past forum]

its locked into position and also I cant preview it in editor only in game

[ivory wraith]

Cinemachine controls the main camera for you. You use virtual cameras to tell it how to position the actual camera.

[ivory wraith]

I have no idea what you've done, so you're going to have to show me the inspectors again.

[ivory wraith]

You can't set its position because it's using the "Tracked Dolly" Body mode.

Change "Path Position" to move it along the dolly track.

The virtual camera is set to do nothing for aiming, so you can still rotate it freely.

[past forum]

I dont want to set its position, I want it to just slide sideways...

[ivory wraith]

okay, so change Path Position and see what happens

it will move along the track, in both edit and play mode (you'll get some smoothing in play mode)

[past forum]

I can manually change the position

but I can't get it to move on its own

definently adding this to the mountain of things that unreal does 1000x better...

[ivory wraith]

Create a new object and put a CinemachineDollyCart on it.

Make the vcam hard lock to its target and set it to follow the new cart object.

[past forum]

ffs... so just redo it. okay

there is no target

[ivory wraith]

as suggested.

[past forum]

its just a sliding drone shot over an area for a cut scene

[ivory wraith]

you've been trying random combinations of components without reading the instructions.

[past forum]

Every line of this conversation takes longer to type than doing this camera work in unreal... god damn i hate unity.

[ivory wraith]

are you surprised that you're having problems?

I set up a camera that automatically moves along a track in about 30 seconds.

[past forum]

no, actually i followed several different tutorials that all say not to use the cart one, but to use the track one.

[ivory wraith]

the cart lets you automatically move along a track without having to write a script that changes the dolly position yourself

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.cinemachine@2.9/manual/CinemachineDollyCart.html

if you don't want to use the cart, then you need to do something to change the camera's dolly position

you could animate it; you could use a script

[past forum]

well i created a track with a cart but there is no brain

so the camera has no configuration at all

[ivory wraith]

the brain does not go on the track.

the brain goes on the main camera, and is automatically put there by cinemachine

[past forum]

it wasnt

[ivory wraith]

It was right there in the last screenshot.

[past forum]

when I do dolly camera with track yes

when I do dolly track with cart, no

[ivory wraith]

that's because Dolly Track with Cart doesn't add a virtual camera

it just creates the track and the cart

if you want to use the cart, then create a Virtual Camera and configure it like this

[past forum]

why dont i just add a cart to my existing camera

[ivory wraith]

because the cart is an object that moves around in the scene, which you can then follow with a vcam

I guess you could also set the virtual camera's Body to "Do Nothing" and put a cart component on it

That would also work.

[ivory wraith]

you put things on a cart

[past forum]

im so fucking confused right now

Okay, lets just... im deleting literally everything, now theres no cam, no track, no cart nothing.

[ivory wraith]

then stop doing random things in random orders and just follow my instructions.

[past forum]

what the actual fuck am i supposed to do

[ivory wraith]

create a track with cart.

create a virtual camera.

[ivory wraith]

configure the virtual camera like this.

that's it

[past forum]

It didn't spawn with a vcam

or a cam

or anything

[ivory wraith]

Did you delete your actual Camera?

[past forum]

yes

[ivory wraith]

Then put one back.

[past forum]

first?

[ivory wraith]

GameObject > Camera

Yes.

and make sure to set its tag to MainCamera

so that unity knows to use it as the main camera

Don't mess with that camera anymore. Cinemachine is going to control it for you.

[past forum]

okay

I did that, then I created cart + track

there is no change to the main camera, brain was not automaticallly added

[ivory wraith]

now create a virtual camera.

[past forum]

okay

[ivory wraith]

again, the track + cart does not create a virtual camera

it's just the track and a cart that follows the track

[past forum]

okay now it was automatically added

[ivory wraith]

yes, because you created your first virtual camera

cinemachine automatically sets up your main camera when you do that.

[ivory wraith]

Configure the new vcam so that it's locked to the cart.

You will need to rotate the camera as desired after doing this.

[past forum]

I dont see where I can select the track

[ivory wraith]

You don't. Configure it exactly as I showed it in that screenshot.

The vcam is following the cart. The cart is following the track.

[past forum]

okay

[ivory wraith]

you can experiment once you have something that works.

[past forum]

not quite...

its not... on... the track...

its following it but its not on it

its offset in space from the track

ah, i found it adopted an offset. fixed that at least

[ivory wraith]

an offset would occur if you used the Transposer mode

this does happen to be the default for a new vcam

you want Hard Lock to Target, as shown in the screenshot.

this snaps the camera to exactly where its follow target is, without any damping (by default, at least) or offsets

[past forum]

man if you had any idea how much simpler this is in unreal... (I have to use unity, im not the boss) lol

[ivory wraith]

I'm learning Unreal right now. I find Unreal far more baffling because I don't use it much.

You need to pay more attention to what you're doing. You aren't familiar with Unity yet.

Of course you're having problems.

[ivory wraith]

If I say you need to configure something like this, you need to configure it like this

not something that looks kinda similar

[past forum]

In unreal you just create a camera, then in events pick a time, 5 minutes from now... move the timeline to the end, move the camera, it will now move on its own from point a to b and draw its own track... that you can then edit if you want

[ivory wraith]

if you just want to animate a camera's position, you can slap an animator on the main camera and record some keyframes

cinemachine generally makes it easier to get results that look nice.

[past forum]

yeah but then I dont have a track, unreal will generate a track for you that you can then edit so its like... both an animation AND a track.

[ivory wraith]

If you want it to take exactly 5 minutes, then I would just use Tracked Dolly mode and add a script that sets the position based on elapsed time

[past forum]

anyway... back to unity...

its still not moving though... hmm

[ivory wraith]

presumably because the dolly cart's speed is zero

[past forum]

F lol yeah

[ivory wraith]

i would suggest giving more respect to the time and effort of people who are helping you. this was a very aggravating experience, to be frank.

i don't enjoy hearing someone complain about how the system is broken while i try to help them

[past forum]

It's just.... very frustrating, i'm sorry -.-

[ivory wraith]

It's fine to be frustrated, but you need to recognize that you're getting upset at it and either refocus your work or take a break.

[bitter geode]

Hey, I'm somewhat new to unity & I'm trying to make a cool video using cinemachine, but the resolution looks terrible at 9 seconds into the video (go full screen) & I was wondering how do I optimize that/fix it? I have a 4070ti & solid cpu so I don't think hardware is the limitation (I must be doing something wrong)

I'd really really appreciate if someone could help me out with this! I've linked the attached video down below, lmk what should I optimize to increase the resolution? (I'm recording at 1440p 60fps using the recorder package).

go full screen on your computer to see the bad resolution (it looks fine on discord's tiny screen)

[errant shard]

They are now under GameObject and Component menus

[errant shard]

Looks flawless throughout on my 1080p screen at least

[bitter geode]

thanks for letting me know! I really appreciate it. I had a feeling that my monitor is an ultrawide and that might be the issue

[errant shard]

It's possible you're seeing some aliasing problem that isn't visible to me due the video being downsampled to my lower resolution, so it may be worth double checking which types of AA you're using

[bitter geode]

I changed the aliasing from 4x to 8x if that's what you mean but it didn't have a visible effect iirc

[errant shard]

I guess it's not it then

[bitter geode]

as long as it looks good on 1080p then its all good, because its for a video

[neon venture]

When I do a flip with my spaceship cinemaschiene flips the gameobject and camera, how can I disable that?

[reef sinew]

there isnt a channel for unity timeline so im asking it here sorry if its not the place so i wanted to know if theres a way to use navmesh agents inside unity timeline?

[royal tartan]

Change the configuration of the camera to ignore the object's rotation

[neon venture]

und which tab can I do that?

[royal tartan]

Wdym by tab

[neon venture]

where do I find that setting?

[royal tartan]

In the virtual camera body settings

Change it

[neon venture]

cant find it😅

[royal tartan]

90% of your screenshot is the body settings

Or rather perhaps you want the aim setting

Since it's set to same as follow target

[neon venture]

to what should it be set?

[royal tartan]

Try things

[maiden osprey]

I am using 2 cinemachines side by side(each taking half the screen)
When one cinemachine is active
The view is fine
When 2 are active it gets blurry
They follow their own separate main cameras

[errant shard]

Blurry in what sense?

[maiden osprey]

can you see the difference?

[ember basin]

Should I be childing my Camera w/ cinemachine brain to my player? I was getting extremely jittery movement before when it wasn't childed. Now that it is, it's much smoother. I'm using rigidbody, so the camera update method i'm using is fixed update. I also have rb interpolation on.

Is this going to lead to problems in the future? Is this actually something that most people do?

[royal tartan]

No. The cinemachine brain/ unity camera should not be a child of anything

Or at least, not for camera positioning purposes
It will be moved completely by following a virtual camera

[royal tartan]

With Rigidbody interpolation on, the update mode should be late update

Or smart update

[ember basin]

Unchilding, turning interpolation on, and late/smart update makes everything considerably more jittery

[royal tartan]

you'd have to show your setup

[ember basin]

What property for the freelook camera would i adjust to get this kind of effect when turning (character is turning left in the picture)? Is this lookahead? Horizontal dampening? X dampening? Yaw Dampening?

Always thought it would be look ahead but lookahead shifts my character to the left when turning left. What i'd like is to shift it to the opposite direction so you can actually see ahead

might need to play around with dead zones too i think

from what i'm reading, it should be Lookahead but it's inverted for me?

more like... lookbehind

[ember basin]

I feel like both of these properties should be doing the opposite effect though. Lookahead should be looking ahead and dampening should create a slight lag behind, but both are doing the inverse. Why? lol

[ember basin]

Ok it seems like adjusting the Z value in tracked object offset under "aim" is moreso what I want. The only issue is that it has no effect when using binding mode: Lock To Target No Roll. Not sure what to do lmao

[mental rapids]

i want my camera to move up slowly and become quicker and quicker as the game moves on to insentivise players to move quickly kind of like the falcon in crossy roads how would i do that with cinemachine

[errant shard]

Move the vcam's follow target quicker and quicker or however you need

[mental rapids]

but then the vcams follow target would have to be something different then the player therefore if the player moved faster then the speed at which the follow target would move which is how i would like it to be then the player would have to wait for the vcams follow target to catch up

[mental pasture]

Any reason why when CinemachineFreeLook and CinemachineBrain enabled at the same time will CHANGE the transform of my camera (of which the 2 are attatched) when not in play mode?

That is, its transform is changed by mouse input, OUTSIDE of play mode!

Thanks.

(workaround, I disable 1 of these components until the player spawns in)

[royal tartan]

Pretty sure there's just a checkbox on the freelook and/or brain to decide if it applies in edit mode

[mental pasture]

Oh cool

[mental pasture]

Hmmm

Dont think so

[drifting zinc]

i want to change the cinemachine body from transposer to do nothing via code how to do that ?

[mental apex]

how big is the difference between ciemachine 2 and 3?
I am revamping my player entirely and I focus much more on performance,
considering switching to unity 2023 even though it's still in beta. I find cinemachine 2->3 to be the biggest difference.

[errant shard]

Total internal rework afaik
I don't know if there is an upgrade path
The word from the developer is that you may want to keep using 2 if you already have systems relying on it, but start new projects with 3

[mental apex]

sounds good! I am building the new player completely from scratch, that's why I'm considering it

[mental apex]

I think I will stay with cinemachine 2.
it seems to have much more support for now, also good for unity 2021 which is my main version for now.

[royal tartan]

better approach is to switch to a different virtual cam that already has that configured

[gilded chasm]

Hey, im making a topdown 2d shooter and was wondering if there is an extension to a cinemachine virtual camera that would let me position the camera between mouse position and player's position?

[royal tartan]

No need for an extension. Use CinemachineTargetGroup

[gilded chasm]

I wasn't aware of this component, works like a charm

thanks!

[prisma gull]

hi, does anyone know what the problem might be?

[royal tartan]

Just looks like your mouse sensitivity is way too high

Doesn't seem Cinemachine related

Just an issue with your own scripts

[errant shard]

It could help to properly describe what you're trying to do, and how
Saves us some guesswork

My stab in the dark that is that you have some method that effectively turns the character around and walks in that direction, but because your camera is attached to it, that turning-around motion occurs every frame