🎥┃cinemachine

[urban apex]

have you tried late update?

in my experience late update was better when I coded camera follow

[amber pelican]

does also stutter (sourrounding objects) but what is weird is that it somehow depends on the camera angle

[urban apex]

is your players rigidboyd interplate?

[amber pelican]

yes

[urban apex]

that's weird

[urban apex]

can you try setting the velocity in update instead of fixedUpdate?

when setting velocity you don't need to use fixed

and set the camera as lateUpdate

[amber pelican]

actually its even worse then

[urban apex]

really weird

[amber pelican]

yeah idk i will probably leave it as it is for 6 months then come back just to find out that i still can't fix it but Thanks anyway 🖤

[urban apex]

sometimes the build is not same with the editor

oh and it's weird and I don't know why but when the player is selected, the movement looks laggy

don't forget to unselect player when you try

[urban apex]

it might be the reason that was worse? maybe the player was selected?

[opal steeple]

That is a terrible character control script in the first place. you are mixing force simulation (which you override) with teleportation (which fights the little force simulation you have). May be worth looking into acquiring a proper controller script that is either kinematic or force simulated and doesn’t have the above issues.

[stable briar]

@umbral elbow
If you want any more code from the project or wonder about any variables you can ask.
These aren't complete by the way, so I doubt you'd want to just them without some changes :)

Camera: https://hastebin.com/share/ebofogabav.csharp
Helper Functions: https://hastebin.com/share/zudokahito.csharp

[umbral elbow]

I actually found you can override the World up on the cinemachine brain

[umbral elbow]

Hi, back again, I figured my previous stuff out but now I'm struggling with rotating the camera when the character is moving really fast, I can barely rotate the camera against the velocity and I don't know how to compensate that on a freelook camera

[odd elk]

Why do I get a slight stutter on my player with this script? Please help, I hate cameras lol. Mine is finally functioning perfectly except for this small stutter issue. I tried making it FixedUpdate() instead of Update() but that made it worse.

public class MyCameraScript : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Transform player;
    public float distance = 8f;
    public float minZoomDistance = 4f;
    public float maxZoomDistance = 16f;
    public float zoomSpeed = 6f;
    public float initialFOV = 70f;

    void Start()
    {
        if (player != null)
        {
            // Set the initial position of the camera
            transform.position = player.position + new Vector3(0, distance, -distance);

            // Set the initial rotation of the camera
            transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(45f, 0f, 0f);

            // Set the initial FOV of the camera
            GetComponent<Camera>().fieldOfView = initialFOV;
        }
    }

    void Update()
    {
        if (player == null)
            return;

        // Get the scroll wheel input
        float scrollInput = Input.GetAxis("Mouse ScrollWheel");

        // Adjust the distance based on the scroll input and zoom speed
        distance -= scrollInput * zoomSpeed;

        // Clamp the distance between the min and max zoom distances
        distance = Mathf.Clamp(distance, minZoomDistance, maxZoomDistance);

        // Set the camera position relative to the player's position
        transform.position = new Vector3(player.position.x, player.position.y + distance, player.position.z - distance);
    }
}

changed to lateupdate and its fixed nvm ty

[ruby basalt]

how do i disable/remove this arc while going from bottom rig to middle rig for freelook camera?

even if i set the spline curvature to 0, it goes down a little lineraly, i dont want it to go down

[pearl atlas]

Hey everyone.

I'm using the Cinemachine Confiner 2D along with a polygon collider 2D set as a rectangle with four points to keep the camera within the bounds of my world. But, I have a bit of a problem.

I'm trying to figure out how to trigger an event when the camera touches the bottom side of the rectangle. The plan is to move the hotbar at the top of the screen to give players a better view of the world when that happens. I'm a bit stuck on how to make this happen though, so any tips or advice would be awesome. Thanks a bunch! 🙂

[surreal helm]

question can you have like 10 cameras with their own layers and not cause the cpu to waste performance

[urban apex]

why would you do that

is usually better to tell your problem and ask for solution rather than finding a solution by yourself and asking about that

still about that ugly mf?

[surreal helm]

I been explaining my problem but it not the right solution

[surreal helm]

pretty much

I went back to using camera to make it layered

it works but any object that in front of the player gets clipped by the player

[urban apex]

don't you just need to show the player in front of the platform while jumping?

[surreal helm]

yes but i seem to found my problem

[urban apex]

what is the problem

[surreal helm]

when i set the layers i'm not counting the layer that goes in front of it so i switched it back on and it works

the only layer that should go though should be the oneway ground layer

[urban apex]

why don't you just use urp render features?

[surreal helm]

Because it goes though some parts of the stage plus I only need it to be though when he jumps

or at least when he at the air

[urban apex]

then switch it on jump state

[surreal helm]

I tired that switrching the layers cause it to overload the cpu

Unless if there a way to switch that setting off via code

[surreal helm]

@urban apex I actual tried what you said and it worked. I was able to turn the render feature on and off based on the states I'm in that really fixed my problem. Thanks

[vestal lotus]

how to invert cinemachine camera direction?
when i pushed my mouse upwards the cam points down and looks at ground

[crude lake]

Assuming you're using a Cinemachine input provider component, set the Y axis gain to the opposite of what it is

Also, I have the camera jittering specifically when standing on top of moving platforms. I've googled for a bunch of solutions, but found no combination that doesn't make either the character or environment jitter

• Both the player and platforms have rigidbodies (platform is kinematic) set to interpolate
• Both of their movement is handled in FixedUpdate, not Update
• CM brain update mode is set to late update
• Virtual/CM camera standby update is set to always

Player is a dynamic rigidbody that hovers over the ground using a raycast. This is what lets it move with the platform:

[royal tartan]

When and where are you running this code?

Rigidbody.MovePosition should only be used in FixedUpdate

[crude lake]

Every FixedUpdate and nowhere else

[cosmic fossil]

My first time using cinemachine and I have an issue. How can I make the camera look completely or most of the way up for the bottom rig? I tried to decrease the height and add a collider to the floor but that seemed to make the collision detection to completely break. For reference, I'm trying to make it similar to Risk Of Rain 2 and their camera system.

[crude lake]

Though I was told on Reddit that MovePosition only does interpolation on kinematic rigidbodies

So maybe that's the issue

[royal tartan]

Why use MovePosition

why not just set the velocity?

[crude lake]

Looking at it in slow motion, this checks out

[royal tartan]

Where the camera looks is based on the Aim settings of the vCam (the rig)

[crude lake]

Then I would have to separate and recombine the base and platform velocity all the time, and I worry that would be annoying to work with

But I guess it's worth a shot

[royal tartan]

I don't really understand what you mean by this. If you were using MovePosition that would be completely overriding any velocity you had anyway

[crude lake]

It doesn’t change the velocity. I’m also using MovePosition to keep the player hovering above ground and it keeps its velocity just fine

[cosmic fossil]

Thank you :D

[keen cedar]

I can't find much information on the best way to do camera shake.
(I thought I would find way more up-to-date info, seeing as how common of a mechanic this is)

From one video I found, it said to use cinemachine with impulses. I think I set it up right but I can't seem to actually edit the impulse properties with a script. 🤔

I looked at the page for it but it doesn't seem to give me any additional insight.
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.cinemachine@2.3/manual/CinemachineImpulseSource.html

Am I missing something or is there already a better way to do screen shake? I'm kinda lost here.

[errant shard]

That page is a bit outdated
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.cinemachine@2.9/manual/CinemachineImpulseSource.html
You can find an example of impulse sources in Cinemachine's importable examples
I think you would rather have a variety of different impulse sources rather than editing the properties of one in a script

You also have the option of using noise rather than impulses

[ivory wraith]

that reminds me -- I'd like to be able to turn multiple noise sources on and off. Currently, I'm just spamming impulses, but that's a very kludge-y solution

[keen cedar]

I can't seem to get it to work with just noise, are there some extra steps required with this method?

[keen cedar]

nvm I was doing something wrong on my end

[umbral elbow]

Anyone know how I can programmatically change the camera sensitivity on a virtual camera with a framing transposer Follow and POV LookAt? I'm using it as an orbital camera

Just to add on, the only way I've found on Google is something to do with Preprocessors on the input system

Second Problem I'm having is that if the virtual camera is in a different scene in a multi scene workflow, the camera collider does not work

[amber pelican]

Hey do you have any idea how to solve this camera-shaking issue when walking upstairs? (character controller)

[errant shard]

Some vertical Body damping might be enough to solve that

Also an option to allow some vertical movement with soft zones to make it even smoother

It really depends on how you want it to work

Some smooth the player's visual position with stairs so camera smoothing isn't even necessary
Or even smoothing the true position by interpolating the position between the stairs

Or simply using ramp colliders for the player with stairs instead of steps to sidestep the issue entirely

[royal tartan]

That last one is 👌

[amber pelican]

thanks 🙂

[umbral elbow]

Anyone know how I can programmatically change the camera sensitivity on a virtual camera with a framing transposer Follow and POV LookAt? I'm using it as an orbital camera
Just to add on, the only way I've found on Google is something to do with Preprocessors on the input system
Second Problem I'm having is that if the virtual camera is in a different scene in a multi scene workflow, the camera collider does not work

[pure topaz]

Anyone have any issues with cinemachine not following a player's transform when "apply root motion" is checked on?

[royal tartan]

I don't think cinemachine really cares about animators. I've not seen that.

[pure topaz]

Hmm I see the reason I suspected that was because disabling root motion was an immediate fix but I'll continue to troubleshoot for other causes, ty

[royal tartan]

I would guess that whatever you did with the animator resulted in the object the vCam was following not moving

[rich prism]

where is the library folder

cause im getting a compiler error and i cant find that folder to delete it

[rich prism]

Can someone help me sort out the "The type or namespace name could not be found"

[errant shard]

You already have instructions, something wrong with them?
Repeating the question isn't going to yield more information than you were given

[rich prism]

Well ive tried looking on google and nothing helped

[royal tartan]

Most likely if you have compile errors in your library folder you need to update your pacakges

or remove unused packages

or update Unity

the library folder lives in the root directory of your project

[deft shuttle]

I want to make the camera follow the player but slightly pan depending on where the cursor is. Does anyone know how I can do this?

[royal tartan]

use a cinemachine target group

the members of the group should be the player and the cursor

[deft shuttle]

Am I doing something wrong? Nothing's changed

[royal tartan]

you can't use the ui element as the second target

you need an object that is at the world space position of the cursor

make an empty object and move it in your code along with the cursor

also the LookAt needs to point at the target group

not the cursor

the target group should not go on the camera itself either

[deft shuttle]

How can I get it to point at the target group? By making it point at the player?

[royal tartan]

no

make it point at the target grgoup

[deft shuttle]

The cinemachine vcam is parented to the player. Is that an issue?

[deft shuttle]

How though? Should the target group be a seperate object?

[royal tartan]

It should not be

[royal tartan]

yes

that's what I said

follow the instructions: https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.cinemachine@2.10/manual/CinemachineTargetGroup.html

[deft shuttle]

This is how I've got my CursorWorldObject following my cursor. Is this correct?

[deft shuttle]

These are my current settings, but it's causing the camera to move on the Z axis, breaking it into 3D. What am I doing wrong?

[royal tartan]

not quite

Vector3 mousePos = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition);
mousePos.z = 0;
WorldSpaceCursor.transform.position = mousePos;```

I guess but it's ugly and weird and will break if and when your camera position changes

[deft shuttle]

Yeah, I noticed

[royal tartan]

Magic numbers are never a good idea

[deft shuttle]

Okay, but the camera is rotating like this when it shouldn't

Not sure how to fix it

[royal tartan]

For 2D you should be using a framing transposer

in the body settings

and leave "Do Nothing" for the Aim settings

[deft shuttle]

The camera ends up rotating tho, not sure why

It's not looking straight on

[royal tartan]

show your virtual camera settings

[royal tartan]

and the Transform for this thing?

Follow should be the TargetGroup

not the player

and you can remove the Look At

[deft shuttle]

It moved below the player when I changed the body to Framing Transposer

Follow is "TargetGroup (transform)"
Look at is nothing.

But it still starts at a rotation

It seems like removing the TargetGroup and then reapplying it to the Follow has somehow fixed it

Thank you

[royal tartan]

yes it now should be following the target group

so it's like the average of the mosue obj and the player

[deft shuttle]

How can I limit how much the camera moves with the cursor?

[royal tartan]

change the weights in the target group?

but also your code that moves the cursor object can limit the distance from the player

[deft shuttle]

Thanks for all the help!

[rich prism]

i have done all of these and i still have the error

[rich prism]

i updated unity and it just deleted my entire project

[royal tartan]

It doesn't do that

[unkempt forge]

Are you in the wrong scene?

[rich prism]

no i dont think so

theres nothing in the hierarchy or the scene

[unkempt forge]

Then either it is a different project, different scene, you never saved, or something like that.
Updating unity will not remove and assets or content

[rich prism]

no1 i did save because i opened it yesterday and everything was there

how can i check if it is a different scene

[royal tartan]

just open the scene you want to open

[rich prism]

cheers

it worked

i just didnt know where the scen was

[errant shard]

I'm failing to set a vcam's lens fov with animator keyframes
No time to troubleshoot it much so I'm just wondering if there's some trick to it
The keyframes are saved in the clip, but ignored at runtime and in editor after swapping once to another animation
2021.3.34f1

[worldly wagon]

Have you tried doing it through code?

[errant shard]

No, but it works now when trying it again, even though I tried restarting the editor the first time
A mystery for the grave, I guess

[umbral elbow]

anyone know why the cinemachine collider doesn't work in a multi scene workflow? I have my camera in a bootstrapper scene so that it persists through scene load and a manager attached to it, unfortunately the collider doesn't seem to recognize collidrs in the environment scene even if they are in the correct layer

[umbral elbow]

Or am I just dumb and missed a setting cuz I can't find it on the documentation or the inspector

[royal tartan]

It shouldn't have a problem... maybe share some screenshots of your setup?

[umbral elbow]

sorry it took me so long, here are my settings and what my hierarchy looks like and my CameraManager script (do note I am refactoring what was a game jam so some parts may not make sense)

excuse the green it's my play mode tint

[umbral elbow]

I know the player reference isn't working because they're in different scenes and I know how to fix that, it's just really weird as even if I drag the whole camera controller into the same scene, the collider doesn't seem to work

ok so after a little more testing, it is working to an extent, it seems to depend on the thickness as my 1 unit thick ground will only slightly resist the camera before it eventually passes through

[ionic geyser]

Ive started on a game using pixel perfect camera.
The "problem" is that the Lens isnt very fine tuned. I can only zoom in and out at a very big numbers. To solve this problem I ended up fiddling with the reference/game pixel ratio. It ended up being something like 704 * 424 (ish).

Is this "okay" or will this lead problem further along the game? Should I stick to more traditional resolution settings?

[ionic geyser]

I'm using 64*64 tiles

[errant shard]

So you're using reference resolution as zoom?

Or setting a reference resolution that's easier to zoom in multiples of 2

[ionic geyser]

I want my character to be at a certain size compared to the screens height.

Im not quite sure how to think when it comes to character size compared to screen/camera height from the get go.

I have tiles 6464. I divide em to 3232 in Unity. And I want my 6464 character to remain 6464 in Unity for quality/resolution.

Problem is, when I zoom in and out with the Lens which only have like 3 steps I dont get the player to screen height ratio Im looking for.

So I end up fiddiling with the screen resolution instead to solve the "problem"

Does that make sense?

[errant shard]

It's expected that you don't have many zoom levels because to maintain pixel-perfectness fine zoom steps are not possible
It's not precisely obvious to me how a specific reference resoslution "solves" this problem, but I'm glad it seems to do so

As long as a reference resolution is valid for upscaling, it should work the same as any other reference resolution
Due to the nature of monitor resolutions, you'll still need to set rules for how it would scale to monitors of a different size from your own

[ionic geyser]

it has a 16:9 ratio but with a not very traditional resolution in pixels

[errant shard]

I don't know of any technical reason to stick to traditional reference resolutions specifically

[ionic geyser]

thanks for respons.

[errant shard]

Let me know if any weirdness seems to appear because of it, in any case

[split flicker]

Hey! Making a third person camera with Free look camera:
It has the least amount of coding needed to actually get rotation working around the player, however I can't seem to offset the cameras to a over the shoulder feel like The Last of us or Resident evil (Remakes)

or should I look at a different camera like the thirdPersonFollow and implement my own rotation logic ?

[errant shard]

Cinemachine's workflow is to have you swap between vcams
You should have one for rotation and another for over-the-shoulder

I expect you want to player normally face the movement direction, but face the camera direction when you swap to aiming vcam

(rather than having the aiming camera rotate with the player)

Cinemachine's importable examples might include an example of over the shoulder aiming but I do not recall precisely

Unless I misunderstand and you're not talking about swapping to over the shoulder view but simply giving the follow camera a sideways offset

[split flicker]

You are right

I just need a camera to rotate around the cahracter

and I am not sure if I should just use the 3rdPersonFollow or FreeLook with the 3 rigs

as I am having an issue offsetting the FreeLook rig to have the character to the left

instead of actually moving to the left or right, it pans the camera

[slate cargo]

So I want to switch to Cinemachine from a script I made to sort of follow the marble in a rather smooth way, but I have no idea how I could get similar results.

[royal tartan]

the first question is "how do you want it to work"?

youi want the camera to stay behind the direction the ball is rolling in?

[slate cargo]

Similar to how the script makes it work

Yea

[royal tartan]

Try "Simple FOllow WIth World Up" for the transposer binding mode?

[slate cargo]

Okay that did add a bit of functionality, but the camera cannot keep up

it doesnt really rotate behind it until it makes a great distance

or turns enough

[royal tartan]

in this case it may be worth adding your own custom script here then

basically whatever your old script was doing - use that to move an empty object to the desired camera position.

You can set that empty object as the Follow target

[slate cargo]

Hmm alright, my only problem was that sometimes, for terrain reasons... if the ball had even a tiny little bounce or drop, because I was using lookat it would make it jitter which I highly hated, and I still couldnt really fix that issue

[royal tartan]

WIth cinemachine you can then add damping etc on top

from the transposer settings

[slate cargo]

Can I do camera offset from object? So I dont have to manually try adding it

Okay I can

I still find it a bit confusing how adding a virtual camera changes stuff

should both the camera (with the cinemachinebrain) and the virtual camera be on the same object like this?

[royal tartan]

definitely not

neither of them should be children of the player

and they should be separate from one another too

[slate cargo]

the player is just an empty, not sure if that changes stuff

[slate cargo]

separated in what way?

[royal tartan]

as in not parents or children of each other

[slate cargo]

not sure why but now the marbles seem to be doing rubber banding tech 💀

I added back the old script and it doesnt seem to occur there

Either im tripping or Cinemachine aint liking my script

[royal tartan]

I thought about this for a little bit. I think maybe the easiest thing here is to put a script like this on an empty child object of the marble:

public class OrientationHelper : MonoBehaviour {
    private Rigidbody rb;

    Vector3 lastKnownDirection;

    void Awake() {
      rb = GetComponentInParent<Rigidbody>();
    }

    void Start() {
      lastKnownDirection = transform.forward;
    }

    void LateUpdate() {
      Vector3 velocity = rb.velocity;
      Vector3 flattened = Vector3.ProjectOnPlane(velocity, Vector3.up);

      if (flattened.magnitude > 0.01f) {
        lastKnownDirection = flattened.normalized;
      }

      transform.rotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(lastKnownDirection);
    }
}```
Then you can set that empty child as the Follow and LookAt targets, and for the Body settings use     "Lock To Target With World Up"

disable all damping to start with

[slate cargo]

so I guess inside the marble prefab?

[royal tartan]

yes as a child of the object that has the Rigidbody

[slate cargo]

rubber banding still occurs

im not sure if its actually occuring and I just cannot seem to notice it while using the custom script

[royal tartan]

well for one can you turn on Interpolation for the Rigibody?

That should smooth things out a lot

[slate cargo]

that also causes rubber banding

💀 since I calculate in fixedupdate that might just be it

it did not belong in update either

do you want me to send in the script? I tried adding useful comments to it

[royal tartan]

I was just trying to help you work out a solution using cinemachine tbh

[slate cargo]

oh yea it does work there

but why is that

I dont quite get it

[slate cargo]

It did significantly help and works rather similar, thank you!
I wonder how I could make it so it doesn't stray too far away in case the marble speeds up

I also dont understand why it jitters on the bottom turn but not on the upper one 💀

[royal tartan]

reduce damping

[bright pasture]

Hey it's cinemachine avaible for unity 5.6.7?

[errant shard]

I believe the earliest editor you can get a supported version for is 2017.1.

Before that I think it used to be an independent asset which is no longer available

[pastel glen]

Yeah, was originally made for the Homeworld prequel and unity bought it

[bright pasture]

So there isn't any package similar but avaible for unity 5.6?

[errant shard]

Why Unity 5.6?

[unkempt forge]

Not that I remember. You would have to write it yourself

[slate cargo]

In the end I settled with Framing Transposer as it seems to give the most options.
I'm still experimenting with some numbers, but now its doing a better than the script. While I still have some things I want to smooth out, the main issues of vertical and horizontal jitter seem to barely occur (I still have some trouble with some wall collisions causing a camera jitter, but the harsh ones are smoothed out, and I don't think this fix should result in the map having way too many verticies)
So yeah, rn main focus is to ease out the wall jitter a bit more, after that comes probably not allowing the camera to go through walls

[neon peak]

I'm making a game where the player is flying in a tunnel and they can control the tunnel's path in real-time, e.g pressing D will make the tunnel turn to the right. Can I use cinemachine to create a camera that goes along a bezier curve (that can be extended)?

[somber pilot]

Anyone know why my cinemachine virtual camera loads on the ground?
the script works for saving and loading, Because when i delete the PlayerFollowCamera, it is right, But i cant use the mouse look unless i use the playerfollowcamera,
Let me know if i need to provide anything else.

im using the unity starter asset first person

[royal tartan]

why not show the actual body and aim settings and the position in the scene where the Follow target is

[royal tartan]

show this in the scene (when the camera is in the ground)

the numbers themselves mean little to me

Also you need to set this to Pivot

otherwise it's impossible to tell where your objects actually are in the scene

And BTW best practice is really for the virtual camera and the main camera to not be children of anything

[somber pilot]

Yeah i saw that and i switched it

[royal tartan]

ok looks like your PlayerCameraRoot object is in the ground

so that explains things

looks like your whole player is halfway underground in fact

so is this really a camera issue?

Doesn't seem like it

[somber pilot]

Well it wasnt doing that at first, i changed stuff and now half my player is in the ground

I dont get why those, i have a ground set at 0

Either way tho my main casple is not,

[royal tartan]

This just looks like you haven't properly positioned the objects inside PlayerArmature

[somber pilot]

They are tho.

it works when i dont have a player follow camera. But when i add one it doesnt

[royal tartan]

Your PlayerCameraRoot object is the thing moving

you need to figure out why that is moving

it has nothing to do with cinemachine

that's just the object your cinemachine camera is following

[somber pilot]

could it be gravity? because its dropping to the floor it seems like. i dont see what would be giving it gravity tho

fuck it ima just make a new one instead of using unitys

that was my mistake in the first place

[errant shard]

A new what? Do you know precisely which of the involved systems is causing the issue

[ivory wraith]

it sounds like you don't understand the problem you are having, and are thus not in a position to fix it by "doing it yourself"

[somber pilot]

A new first person controller without cinemachine

[errant shard]

Cinemachine is just a holder for the camera, as mentioned it does not affect how your player moves

You could disable every virtual camera and I expect the problem persists
In fact that's a good practice for isolating the issue so you know what to fix

[somber pilot]

I did that, i didnt use the cinemachinevirtualcamera, and when i loaded the game the camera was in the correct position. the only issue i had with that was i was not able to look around with the mouse, i was able to move the player tho.

[errant shard]

Was the PlayerCameraRoot also in correct position?

[somber pilot]

i didnt check that time cause i didnt think thats where the problem was

I tried it again jus now, and no it still does the same.

[somber pilot]

Okay i got it now

[bright pasture]

Where do I get it

[errant shard]

No idea how the package manager works in 2017 unity, or if it has one
Why are you looking at ancient versions anyway?

[bright pasture]

Because I'm modding an old game and I don't want the graphics to be affected so much

[bright pasture]

It doesn't have one

It's the same as unity 5

[slim sundial]

hi! How could I put a background in the cinemachine camera?

[errant shard]

What components are you using for your "background", how is it meant to appear and what do you mean by "in"

[slim sundial]

the idea is having a fixed image, like a cave

when the player moves, the image would move with him (emulating a still background)

the problem is that, since the cinemachine camera follows the player in every coordinates, if I puti the image inside the camera object as a children the image also moves vertically

[royal tartan]

This has nothing to do with Cinemachine

[slim sundial]

Oh... sorry then thought it could have an option for that (totally new with the component)

[royal tartan]

Add a UI canvas to your scene in screen space - camera mode and set the plane distance to 1000

Then add your image as a UI Image on that canvas

[slim sundial]

oh, thank you

[royal tartan]

Cinemachine is just for moving and rotating your camera

[slim sundial]

got it, thanks!

[open terrace]

Is there a trick to using the Deoccluder? I've put it on a virtual camera which uses a framing transposer, I don't see any effect though.

Well I got a result, but it was the camera continuously flying around and rotating like it was drunk.

XD

[errant shard]

Iirc there's an example implementation in Cinemachine's samples importable from the package manager

[open terrace]

I took a look, but it seems they've set it up about the same as I have.

I'm thinking mixing target group framing and the deoccluder isn't supported or something.

[errant shard]

Might be
I can't find any info in the docs about it supporting more than one target
Could ask in the forum though, the developers might see it and they have often good advice to give

[open terrace]

Aye

[opaque vault]

can anyone help make fixed camera angles

they trigger and work but dont switch angles

[royal tartan]

what do you mean by "they trigger and work"?

[opaque vault]

like player walks into the first camera can see the player but then i turn to the next area and trigger it the camera triggers but the angle doesn't change

[royal tartan]

what do you mean by triggering a camera

can you share specifics of how you set things up?

[opaque vault]

like is there a way i can show you

[royal tartan]

screenshots

words

videos

maybe make a thread

[gilded night]

hello, i know my question is wierd but is there a way of ussing occulusion with Cinemachine camera

[errant shard]

What type of occlusion?

[gilded night]

occulusion culling

[errant shard]

Cinemachine moves the camera and changes its properties
It doesn't have anything to do with rendering related systems

[gilded night]

then how do you not render so many object at a time

[royal tartan]

Occlusion culling is one option, sure. It just doesn't have anything to do with Cinemachine

[gilded night]

how else can you optimize game fps

[royal tartan]

lots of ways

the first step is to use the profiler and see what your bottlenecks are

[gilded night]

according to my profiler materials are my main problem

[opaque vault]

Does anyone know a good site or a youtube that can teach cinema machine use because I'm trying to make camera angles and I have nothing working.

[gilded night]

maybe the unity Channel on youtube could help

since its has a playlist dedicated to cinimachine @opaque vault

[green steeple]

Trying to make multiple Cinemachine Camera angles in my game so that each planet has a camera that follows it. Current problem is that whenever I make a new virtual camera, I can't configure any of its settings. Its all based on the previous cam fromt he looks of it

Its like, no matter what, if I add a Virtual Camera, it will force them to have the same values no matter what objects I set it to follow or lookat

[royal tartan]

What do you mean by being unable to configure the settings?

Can't you change all the things in the inspector right there?

[green steeple]

No. If I change the position, it reverts to the former.

So set Y to 2, it goes to 10494

[royal tartan]

Are you making changes in play mode or something

[green steeple]

nope, play mode is off

[royal tartan]

Oh you mean you're trying to change the Transform? Yeah of course that won't work

The position is determined by the framing transposer you have set up

You need to be making changes to the actual virtual camera settings

Not the Transform

[green steeple]

oh, interesting.

[green steeple]

Ideally I'd like the virtual cam to orbit 360 around the object while the object is moving. Can't seem to figure out how to get this done? Any tips on this?

[royal tartan]

Certainly not with a Framing Transposer

Probably would set Body to Do Nothing and just write the orbital motion manually, it's just circular motion which is quite simple

[green steeple]

gotcha

[fickle cape]

Hey everyone.
I've got a "Flight Sim" type game, and I work with a cinemachine freelook Camera that follows the player aircraft around. I've added an input provider, that reads a Vector2 input from the controllers right stick to rotate the camera around the aircraft when desired.

So far, so good.

Problem:
Whenever I maneuver the plane and pitch up or down (Left stick down or up), the input provider somehow reads values that are not 0 and rotates (left when pitching down, right when pitching up) although it is supposed to stay straight.

Are there any experts out there that could provide some help? :S

(When I disable the input provider, the "unwanted rotation" does not occur, so it must have to do with where the input provider gets its values from)

[vagrant imp]

Hi, I'm very new with Cinemachine and I have seen some tutorials but they only explain the basics. I just want a Camera that follows my 2D Top-Down player with a limit or a border. The VirtualCamera object needs also a classic Camera component since I have to set a TargetTexture to show my game on a RawImage inside my canvas. I have a problem and I don't know how to solve it, where my camera eventually jumps as shown on the video like changing from zone. The limits are set with a Cofiner and a Polygon Border 2D. The CineMachineBrain has to be on my virtualCamera, otherway the cofiner doesn't work or I don't know how.
As far as I tested I think is some problem with the Cofiner (I try the Cofiner and the Cofiner 2D but I don't know the difference), because if I uncheck the "Confine Border Edges" this problem with the jump doesn't wxits but also the limits of the Cofiner doen't work.

[royal tartan]

The virtual camera and the actual camera should never be the same object

The manual for Cinemachine explains how to do multi camera setups:
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.cinemachine@2.10/manual/CinemachineMultipleCameras.html

[vagrant imp]

Thanks for your response. I change that but the problem continue. I don't know if maybe is because the polygon collider look that is compose for three colliders, but I also try using a CompositeCollider to make the collider just be one but then the Camera stop following the player (maybe cause the Rigid Body but i don't know)

[vagrant imp]

I make now some tests and I can ensure is something with the collider, because if I make a simple figure as a square it doesn't happend, but I would like to have a Polygon Collider for an accurate limit

[split flicker]

SO the Aim camera will not stay in sync with the 3rd person camera. The main thing is, the forward looking direaciton needs to remain the same so there is not this jarring effect when transition to and from the aim and 3rd person camera

the aim camera needs to reset to the 3rdPerson camera positions but my code does not seem to work

      private void SyncCameras()
        {
            // Get references to both cameras
            CinemachineVirtualCamera thirdPersonCamera = VirtualCameraManager.Instance.thirdPersonCamera;
            CinemachineVirtualCamera aimCamera = VirtualCameraManager.Instance.aimCamera;

            // Sync the aim camera to match the third person camera direction
            aimCamera.transform.position = thirdPersonCamera.transform.position;
            aimCamera.transform.rotation = thirdPersonCamera.transform.rotation;
        }

[split flicker]

Fixed!

[hoary crypt]

Hi everyone! I'm making a small prototype for a future game with a Mario Galaxy like gravity, so sometimes the player will run on a round planet and be upside down. Maybe I'm doing it wrong (probably the case lol) but I want the horizontal axis of my Freelook camera to always be the same as my player's so the ground appears "flat". For instance I want to avoid the case that you can see in my video and that the camera continues to follow without being locked. If anyone has an idea ?

[royal tartan]

Freelook wasn't designed for this. I wouldn't use it

[hoary crypt]

What should I use then ? So that I can still use inputs to rotate the cam etc...

[royal tartan]

Write your own logic to simply rotate the object for your vCam to follow

Orbit camera is pretty simple

[hoary crypt]

Ok thanks !

[plucky mesa]

i'm going through kind of a weird problem. I'm using cinemachine for a split screen networked game, so i need to have both the host and the client cam active at the same time. I kinda got something working by syncing the transform of the camera over the network, but cinemachine still tries to force-blend and it will use the last connected player cam for both host and client and the only fix i found was to manually change the priority in code from 10 to 9 and back again to 10, and that weirdly fixes the issue. I already tested and it works well with a normal camera, but i would love to be able to use cinemachine anyway. Any fix not to get the cameras mixed up without having to disable them for each client?

[ivory wraith]

if you need multiple cinemachine cameras to be enabled in the same instance of the game at the same time, you need to configure them so that they don't affect the wrong CinemachineBrain.

[plucky mesa]

i don't seem to have the output channel checkbox on my cinemachine version (?)

[plucky mesa]

i'm using version 2.10.0 from March 4th 2024. Is it the last one?

[ivory wraith]

ah, it's different in 2.x

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.cinemachine@2.10/manual/CinemachineMultipleCameras.html

2.x uses culling masks

you create layers that will hold nothing but the virtual cameras

[plucky mesa]

well this looks like a downgrade (?)

[ivory wraith]

then you configure the culling masks on the cameras to exclude the layers they shouldn't be affected by

it's less convenient, yes, but it's still pretty simple

[plucky mesa]

i had that going on. i must've deleted the script without even realizing when porting to multiplayer i'll see how this looks!

[ivory wraith]

also, do you mean syncing the transform of the cinemachine virtual camera(s)?

i'm a little confused by your problem

[plucky mesa]

i synced the transform of the aimPoint of the camera

[plucky mesa]

cinemachine automatically switching to use last connected client camera and can't simply disable it for non owners since i need to have both the host and the client camera active in the same screen

[plucky mesa]

i made it work! thank you sm

[tawny palm]

I'm going to use cinemachine and have added a Cinemachine Targeted 2D Camera to my scene (and have the default main camera already in there as well) I want it to be 2D Pixel perfect so I added that extension in the virtual camera that I added. Now I didnt see a location for the reference/target resolution in any of the component settings. Am I supposed to have the unity Pixel Perfct Camera Component added to the Main Camera or the virtual camera?

The documentation suggests I add this as well but dont know to what, exactly:

[hoary crypt]

Update : Maybe you already knew but I'm telling you just in case, you can now set a transform which overrides the current world's up. I set it as my player so now the horizontal axis is the same at all time.

[errant shard]

Oh about time

[ivory wraith]

Pixel Perfect Camera belongs on the actual camera.

Cinemachine Pixel Perfect goes on your virtual cameras. It makes the virtual camera set its ortho size properly.

[lusty peak]

Why is it when I am using Cinemachine, Camera.main.transform.position always returns Vector3.zero?

[ivory wraith]

cinemachine doesn't cause that to happen

unless it positions the main camera at the origin, of course

[ivory wraith]

show the relevant code

[lusty peak]

there isnt any, I'm blocked from this lol.

Debug.Log($"{CinemachineCore.Instance.GetActiveBrain(0).transform.position}");
Debug.Log($"{Camera.main.transform.position}");

both are returning vector3.zero and this is happening only after adding a cinemachine brain to the camera 🤷‍♂️

[ivory wraith]

is the camera actually at [0,0,0] ?

[lusty peak]

nope, its position on my player's head. editor shows real position

[ivory wraith]

i want to see where this is being run (Update/LateUpdate/etc.)

[lusty peak]

Update

[ivory wraith]

the main camera should not be parented to anything

[lusty peak]

Its not. the virtualcamera is on my players head

[ivory wraith]

ah, ok

[lusty peak]

making the cameras posiition at my head

[ivory wraith]

It sounds like you have something that's setting the camera's position in Update

Cinemachine runs in either LateUpdate or FixedUpdate

it should be in LateUpdate here

[lusty peak]

ahh I think youre right. thanks

[ivory wraith]

i've gotten pranked by that kind of issue a few times

looks fine in the scene view, but not so much in Update!

[ivory hare]

Im unable to add cinemachine to ym project, i went to Package Manager and checked packages in Built in,Registrey and my assets and Cinemachine isnt there also tried to enable pre release packages and nothin

After restarting it showed up.

[royal tartan]

It should be in Unity Registry

[nova tulip]

Has anyone seen this video from Guinxu? It's in spanish, but it touches an interesting theme

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc7SITFiin8

Creating your own system of cinematics? How is that possible?

In the video there's nothing really explaining how to do it. Only how it's done

It's in graphs, so I'm wondering how it's possible

[ivory wraith]

it's some kind of visual scripting system

you can, presumably, do the exact same thing in C#

[bitter mango]

heyy everyone, I'm an absolute beginner and i'm trying to follow this tutorial ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEMk8xVDk2I&ab_channel=Hennejoe ) to make a simple scene with fixed cameras but when i press play I get "Display 1 no cameras rendering" anyone know if maybe there's just a step that wasn't shown in the video or something? I checked the code multiple times. here's my hierarchy

[errant shard]

Sounds and looks like you have no camera

Virtual cameras are not cameras
Reading the first couple of chapters of the docs is critical to understanding how Cinemachine is meant to be used
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.cinemachine@2.9/manual/index.html

[bitter mango]

ohhhh ok thank you!!

[vapid wagon]

yo! using the cinemachine impulse source and reciever stuff

how do you guys handle rumbling. Like a prolonged impulse? Do you just call GenerateImpulse() at designated intervals based on how long the duration of each impulse is?

[ivory wraith]

That's something I need to figure out properly

I currently just do that, yeah

but it's challenging to control

[royal tartan]

For prolonged impulse you're maybe better off using noise instead

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.cinemachine@3.1/manual/setup-apply-noise.html?q=Noise

[vapid wagon]

thanks!

I do like the set up ease of the impulse source and listener combo though. Rather convenient

[gleaming harbor]

Quick question; I'm trying to force-update the camera position via a script but nothing I try works. The issue is that, the player teleports (ie. the Rigidbodys position is re-assigned) but the camera takes so long to return to the expected position behind the player and needs to just be force-assigned. I've tried...

• Exclusively using the freeLookCam.ForceCameraPosition() to assign the FreeLookCameras position (didn't work).
• Setting the PreviousStateIsValid = false & using freeLookCam.ForceCameraPosition() to assign the FreeLookCameras position (didn't work).
• Setting the PreviousStateIsValid = false & manually assigning the FreeLookCamera transform to where the player respawns. (didn't work).
• Every conceivable combination of enabling/disabling the FreeLookCamera component, to try and have it recognize that it's not where it should be.
• Ignoring the Cinemachine camera all together, and just manually assigning the actual camera. (didn't work).

Any advice is honestly helpful, at this point. Thanks in advance.

[ivory wraith]

have you looked at CinemachineCore.OnTargetObjectWarped?

you tell it about the transform that warped and how much it moved

I have not used this before, but that looks appropriate

Since you're using a Rigidbody, you may need to wait until after the next fixed update

since the transform doesn't actually go anywhere until the physics update

also, if the rigidbody is set to Interpolate, it could be more complicated

I forget if setting Rigidbody.position interpolates or not

[gleaming harbor]

So, that might work. I'll see if I can't find the docs for that function. That said, I'd need to see how to use that on the FreeLookCamera. Also, the death sequence is being performed in a Coroutine:

public void killPlayer() { StartCoroutine( playerDeathSequence() ); }

IEnumerator playerDeathSequence() {
  playerMovement.enterStaticState();
  yield return new WaitForSeconds(1.0f);
  fadeManager.Fade(true, 1.0f);
  yield return new WaitForSeconds(4.0f);
  playerMovement.GetComponent<Rigidbody>().velocity = Vector3.zero;
  playerMovement.GetComponent<Rigidbody>().position = checkpoint.position;
  fadeManager.Fade(false, 1.0f);
  yield return new WaitForSeconds(1.0f);
  playerMovement.exitStaticState();
}

Also, side-note; your FadeComponent solution from yesterday did what I wanted it to do. Thank you again for your help with that. 🙂

[ivory wraith]

You don't call it on a specific camera

CinemachineCore.OnTargetObjectWarped is static

and nice (:

[ivory wraith]

You will need to tell OnTargetObjectWarped how much the transform moved by.

So I think you will want to do this

Vector3 oldPosition = playerMovement.transform.position;
// set position, etc.
yield return new WaitForFixedUpdate();
yield return null;
CinemachineCore.OnTargetObjectWarped(playerMovement.transform, playerMovement.transform.position - oldPosition);

you need to tell it about the object that it's following or tracking

so if it's looking at something else, you need to get that transform

Actually...

CinemachineCore.ResetCameraState might be even easier

It tells every camera that its previous state is invalid and resets all CinemachineBrains' state

The docs suggest using that when restarting a level

[gleaming harbor]

I'm not sure how to call that from inside the coroutine, as it's telling me it doesn't exist.

[ivory wraith]

What doesn't exist? CinemachineCore?

[gleaming harbor]

Sorry, the 'ResetCameraState()' funciton

[ivory wraith]

bah, it's a CM 3.0 thing

[gleaming harbor]

Ah, that would explain it.

[ivory wraith]

You can recreate it pretty easily, though

        public static void ResetCameraState()
        {
            var numVcams = CameraUpdateManager.VirtualCameraCount;
            for (int i = 0; i < numVcams; ++i)
                GetVirtualCamera(i).PreviousStateIsValid = false;
            int numBrains = CinemachineBrain.ActiveBrainCount;
            for (int i = 0; i < numBrains; ++i)
                CinemachineBrain.GetActiveBrain(i).ResetState();
        }

[gleaming harbor]

I'm currently using Cinemachine 2.9.5

[ivory wraith]

That's all it does, and it looks like everything in there is public

the names might have changed though

[gleaming harbor]

I'll give that a shot, then. 🙂

[plucky juniper]

why is my cinemachine camera so zoomed in
how do i zoom it out
im on the 3.0 version

[ivory wraith]

change the ortho size on the cinemachine camera

[warm verge]

I am sorry for the misconsception

[ivory wraith]

you won't be changing anything on the Cinemachine Brain

[plucky juniper]

okay

i cant find a size parameter

you mean the cinemachine 2d platformer camera component?

[ivory wraith]

No.

look at the cinemachine (virtual) camera component

[plucky juniper]

nevermind i just fixed it

thanks for your help

[errant shard]

With Cinemachine you always move Virtual Cameras with your scripts or otherwise
The real Camera should not be moved by anything except the Brain

[slate crane]

when i install cinemachine, there is no tab for it at the top so i cant actually make the camera that i need

nvm i figured that out

my bad

but now i need to know how to make the background move with the camera.

[last briar]

Hey, why when I link the cinemachine camera and press play mode does it unlink?

[royal tartan]

You have other code changing the field presumably

Maybe in Start or Awake

[last briar]

is it possible to use it in multiple scripts?

i need the main cam reference to use the look at function in another script

[ivory wraith]

sure

just don't set the reference back to null in your code, which is presumably what's happening here

[last briar]

i don't referencing back to null i think

[royal tartan]

In Start you are

GetComponent returns null here

Since that component is not on the same object

[last briar]

Oh yeah, thanks for the help

I didn't know GetComponent return to null

[sharp tree]

I can't see Dolly Track's Waypoints as gizmos and there are not much properties to change what should I do

[royal tartan]

Enable gizmos in scene view

[sharp tree]

I enabled them but cant see cinemachine ones

[sharp tree]

why i am unlucky in everywhere, all kind of weird problems come to me

almost every error get is different unique kind of

my pc is not even that bad

oh i fixed

[royal tartan]

Gizmos are not enabled

YOu must enable gizmos to see gizmos

[sharp tree]

yeah i fixed it now

do you know how can i test virtual camera

it is little complicated

i made 2 path but camera doesnt move

[sharp tree]

goddamn almost no tutorial explained you need to make Animation for dolly for with path positions even if you create dollytrack

i thought it would added automatically

[gleaming harbor]

I'm sorry to pester you again with this but I'm struggling to resolve several of the reference issues with the ResetCameraState() function you suggested. Any further input would be highly appriciated.

[ivory wraith]

it looks like a bunch of stuff got moved around in the 2.0 -> 3.0 transition

VirtualCameraCount is a property of CinemachineCore there

GetVirtualCamera should also be called on CinemachineCore

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.cinemachine@2.10/api/Cinemachine.CinemachineCore.html#properties

[gleaming harbor]

In order to get Cinemachine Core, do I need to bring that in from a serialized field?

[ivory wraith]

no, that's a static class

oh right, it's not a static class :p

CinemachineCore.Instance

it is a singleton.

[gleaming harbor]

Ok. So, the last two issues seem to be ActiveBrain-adjacent.

[ivory wraith]

same deal: ActiveBrainCount is on CinemachineCore

[gleaming harbor]

AH!

So, ActiveBrainCount wasn't a value that it had so I selected the closest one; BrainCount.
The only other issue now is that ResetState() doesn't exist and I'm not seeing anything comperable in the list of intelle-sense options.

[eternal raptor]

would cinemachine work for a mobile game, or it dosent really matter which platform

[ivory wraith]

the platform doesn't matter

[ivory wraith]

hm, you could try setting the ActiveBlend property on the brain

(to null)

[gleaming harbor]

Well, the errors stopped but, despite those changes, the camera still doesn't return to the player immediately, when the players position is re-assigned.

[ivory wraith]

hm, setting the previous state to be invalid should cause the virtual camera that follows the player to immediately jump to the player

since that'll stop all damping

i wonder if you're simultaneously switching which virtual camera is active?

[gleaming harbor]

I'm only using a freeLookCamera

Then again, that could just be me misunderstanding Cinemachine, alltogether...

[ivory wraith]

oh, right, one important thing: you're updating the rigidbody's position, right?

i think we talked about this but i forget

show me where you call ResetCameraState

[gleaming harbor]

I only have 2 camera-adjacent objects; 1 main camera game object & 1 Third-Person Freelook Camera.
The main Camera has the brain on it, while the 3rd person camera has the FreeLook cam & Cinemacine Collider.

[ivory wraith]

That's all correct.

[gleaming harbor]

Ok. Just wanted to ensure I didn't botch something further back in time. TwT
This is the code where I call the ResetCameraState:

[ivory wraith]

You're calling ResetCameraState too soon

The player isn't actually moving until the next fixed update

add a yield return new WaitForFixedUpdate(); before you reset the camera state and see if that changes the behavior

[gleaming harbor]

Ok. :3 I'll try that now

Well, now I'm getting an error once the screen fades out & doesn't fade back in. XD

[ivory wraith]

well, what's line 86?

[gleaming harbor]

It's the 2nd for loop. Commenting this out results in it working exactly like I wanted it to.

[ivory wraith]

okay, but what's line 86? :p

[gleaming harbor]

*With the yield return in place

[ivory wraith]

presumably it's the line that assigned a duration

because the active blend was actually null

[gleaming harbor]

cmCore.GetActiveBrain(i).ActiveBlend.Duration = 0.0f;

That's at 86

I had tried swapping it before and forgot to undo it. Let me put back the other code block and test again...

So, I put the line within the 2nd for-loop back to cmCore.GetActiveBrain(i).ActiveBlend = null; and there's no change in the desired behavior. I think I might just remove that 2nd for-loop, unless there's some reason having it would be required?

So, funny thing; Out of a sense of curiosity, I tried handing the monobehavior the CinemachineFreelook Camera as a serialized parameter and ONLY setting the PreviouStateIsValid=false after the WaitForFixedUpdate() without callling the ResetCameraState() function and it also works. :T
The WaitForFixedUpdate() was the solution and I'm grateful for your help. ❤️ That said, sorry we took the long way to get here.

[fiery spear]

does cinemachine block curor input?

[unkempt forge]

No

Depends on what you mean exactly though

[fiery spear]

well I'm trying to make a trigger when you click a gameobject but I'm not sure if cinemachine is blocking the input or not

[unkempt forge]

It would not

[fiery spear]

okay thank you

[tropic falcon]

my cinemachine camera has not got the body options
where do i get them?

[royal tartan]

You need to assign a Follow target then you will have options for the body dropdown

[wary patrol]

so i want to create simple turntable record, and what i did was create track and hope for the best that the shape is goint to be perfect circle, is there anyway to make perfect circle? like some preset shape for the cinemachine track? i mean sure i can just turn the character around but i want to try using cinemachine

[royal tartan]

Do you need dolly track behavior? Could you not just have an empty object you rotate, and set the camera as a child of it at an offset, producing a circular motion?

[wary patrol]

oh i already fix it, i just ask chatgpt to spawn doly trak position 😅

[snow lintel]

HI guys I was using cinemachine freelook camera
I want it to follow the character but the camera is not following character
even after setting player for follow field

[royal tartan]

My guess is your player isn't actually moving

Only that prefab that's a child of the player

(sibling of the follow target)

[untold folio]

why is my camera constantly spinning

[snow lintel]

But the character is moving
And if I use the player game object for follow field

[royal tartan]

Sure but that's not the thing you're following

[snow lintel]

Any solutions

[royal tartan]

Fix your hierarchy

So the root object is actually moving

[snow lintel]

Ok

[untold folio]

is this because the object im following has a rigidbody?

its spinning even when i dont set the target

im using urp

if that has anything to do with it

anyone please?

[royal tartan]

Is it a child of the object it's trying to follow?

Basically I don't think the virtual camera you have selected is being used

And wait you have Transposer and composer settings for it without a target?

[untold folio]

i just re added it

it works

[golden stag]

Hello ! I would like to display a vfx above a button(the button will be invisible) but I struggle a lot.
technically this is what I got
But when I make this button spawn (it a simple dialog box) everything spawn except the vfx or lets say it spawn because I found it in the hierarchy but the camera don't render it.

And I use cinemachine for the camera and feel a little lost even if I guess I have to have a specific camera with a specific layer to display it (it don't work)

[ivory wraith]

Cinemachine decides where the Camera goes. It doesn't really control what gets rendered

[snow lintel]

I want the character to rotate as the camera rotates
But the character is not rotating properly
can anyone tell me what is wrong
I am also providing the code which takes an empty gameobject as ref
i am rotating the empty gameobject to rotate the camera as the camera is focused on it

[crimson widget]

hi finding it very hard to get a result I'm after - thought this was a relatively simple scenario but the camera just won't behave. perhaps someone can suggest a set up that might work.
I've currently got a Clear shot setup with a Main (red) and Above (blue) camera (positioned at highest potential point) but it's not working, the camera occasionally moves closer when blocked etc. and also yaw rotation (how do I limit rotation to only one axis? the damping set to full still doesn't stop it)
Here's a diagram of what I'm after:

• The camera should only pitch, no yaw or roll (well tiny amount for the Framing Transposer delay). Works mostly - I need the pitch rotation mainly so can't turn off the Aim.
• The camera should ALWAYS remain on the z axis it's set on (it should attempt to climb the Y to get the shot ONLY- if it can't see then too bad, it's blocked). I can not get this to work - the priority to 'get it in shot' overrides every attempt to stop the camera moving forward. I've tried the 2D and 3D confiner (a flat 3D collider seems better than a 2D one..). Every setting to Preserve Camera Distance. Camera Distance set everywhere. But it will still move forward to get the shot. Adding a Aim Hard Look At and a Confiner makes the camera spin uncontrollably and also move outside of the confiner....actually bascially any Aim makes it spin.
• The camera should use the Framing Transposer so the softzone moves the camera when in it either X or Y - it should 'mainly' be parallel on the y and z axis, offset to a FIXED z axis.
• When the view is blocked the camera should give up gracefully not jitter like a mad dog
• A Dolly track doesn't move up and down the Y and it also yaw rotates - alos note that the 'ball' can go below the y =0 to below etc so camera needs full freedom on Y axis.
  Any pointers would be appreciated of how to break this down into components. I thought even a single Virtual Camera should be able to handle this situation but yea nah.

[odd pendant]

i'm confused, Main camera is in the middle, why are there dots around the left camera and lines around the right camera. Also when I play it shows the right camera even if the main one has priority

[royal tartan]

Do you have multiple Unity cameras?

Those don't look like Cinemachine virtual cameras

[odd pendant]

yes, they are the unity default cameras. I didnt know where to talk about my issue

[royal tartan]

#💻┃unity-talk

[odd pendant]

thanks

[obtuse swan]

Can someone help me understand why the camera zooms in on the characters butt when the character starts moving, i feel like it has something to do with the height of the terrain because it doesnt happen as often when the character is on flat terrain...

[royal tartan]

not without seeing how you set up the cinemachine settings

[obtuse swan]

makes sense hahhaha

[royal tartan]

You'd have to show your virtual cameras...

that's what actually determines the camera position and rotation

[obtuse swan]

Yeah, sorry I realised the minute i sent it, this is for the freelock camera that actually follows the character hihi

[royal tartan]

You'd want to play with the settings in the FreeLook. The bottom rig radius is 3, is that the problem?

[obtuse swan]

could be..let me check, thanks in advance for answering👏❤️

I changed the bottom rig radius to 1 and its happening less, I also tried putting the avatar again into the follow and look at sectors just so see if anything changed, and now its definitely happening less but when it does it zooms in on the characters feet.. hahah

[dreamy river]

I know its been a few days, but you need to have your player character's mesh on a separate layer from your terrain when you're using the Cinemachine Collider component

The camera thinks that the model is blocking its view of the target transform and is trying to course correct by pulling closer to the target since the collision behavior is set to 'Pull Camera Forward'

[brisk pike]

Hey,
I'm combining Transposer Body and POV Aim for achieving looking at the target and can look around in specific range. The issue is, camera is not rotated to the target and it always on specific rotation which is set on Aim Horizontal and Vertical.

Is it possible to achieve with Cinemachine or I should set the camera rotation myself on the script ?

[fossil vector]

hey,
when implementing cinremachione to my camera i started to go in al directions when trying to move anyone else has had this problem and maybe knows how to fix it ?

[alpine prawn]

Could anyone help me creating Furi's camera in Unity? https://youtu.be/hYb-_O0UA64?si=ovqJ7JellFkCONRZ&t=427

I don't want it to rotate and I want camera to move closer if I get closer to the target and vice versa.

I've tried setting body to framing transposer and aim to composer and tinkered some options but I can't get it working...

[errant shard]

Target Group component is doing most of the work there

Or Framing Transposer

Or Group Composer with Target Group
I'm not precisely sure which is the exact match but there's an abundance of good options

[ivory wraith]

Furi fan detected

good

so yeah, this'll be a Target Group

[alpine prawn]

I kind of got it similar with Furi using target group, world space transposer and a composer

still needs some work but for now its okay I guess

[raven sluice]

hey guys im stuck with an issue where when cinemachine activates , any script thats referring to camera.main doest get stuck to last position and rotation
how to solve this
im unable to do any thing properly due to this
Camera.main.WorldToScreenPoint this gives wrong value due to this please help

[split flicker]

I need a little help please.
This is a POV camera that stutters when the player moves forward.

[split flicker]

Found the issue. The actual issue was that I gave the follow and Look At Target the Actual player mesh. The issue was that if the player mesh updates it's position, and because the follow and look at target focuses on the origin point or Pivot of the actua lmesh, it cases the weird stuttering. Adding a Player Focus point game object fixes the issue. Now the camera focuses n the focus point that is now a child of the main player game object.

super weird but it works

[deep wolf]

Hello
so i have finally setup the cinemachine BUT the rendering of the 2 cameras is in the same place 😦 . how do I make my second VirtualCamera go to the left?

[royal tartan]

It depends on your version of cinemachine but...
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.cinemachine@3.1/manual/CinemachineMultipleCameras.html
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.cinemachine@2.6/manual/CinemachineMultipleCameras.html

Pick the one depending on your CM version^

[deep wolf]

ty

[deep wolf]

dont work 😦

(My virtual Camera is at Layer P1 too)

[royal tartan]

what's not working? Looks like the two cameras are in different places

You can set the culling mask to everything EXCEPT P2

don't make it ONLY P1

[deep wolf]

i will try

[deep wolf]

YAY thanks 🙂

[sharp cairn]

My camera keeps going to the back of the player when it's moving forward.

[main parrot]

I feel bad for even asking this, it should be easily googleable, but for some reason I’m not getting any good results, so here we go:

How do I get my cinemachine 3rd person camera to zoom properly? Do I adjust the orbit radius? That seems to result in a weird motion.. any suggestions/links appreciated

[errant shard]

Properly? What's the weird motion you refer to?

[main parrot]

€dit: might found my problem.. when using the sphere instead of the 3 rings the result seems to be a lot better 🙂

Well.. i'm using the three ring setup and when I got my camera between the middle and the top ring (as most players would probably) and I adjust the zoom the camera keeps the player character in the center resulting in the camera "looking from the top onto the characters head from above" when zoomed in entirely

So this would be my "normal" (or at least the correct angle)

And this is "zoomed" aka middle orbit radius decreased

Additionally this part seems to not have any impact for some reason:
When I zoom using my Mousewheel the "Input value flickers to some value" but nothing happens, tried multiple values for gain, player index, etc.

[fossil vector]

can someone help me so when i when i look around using the unity input system i can see in the scene view my player is looking around but you can see that the player body is like moving a bit to where i am looking but not fully so when i am moving forward affter looking in a certain direction my player just goes in a random direction can anyone help me ?

[royal tartan]

Doesn't sound related to Cinemachine. Seems like a problem with your movement code or your looking around code.

[mystic cloak]

why does the blend not work as expected in the build?

[ivory wraith]

Do all of the virtual cameras involved have the same priority?

Although, that should only affect which vcam starts out live: if you enable a camera with the same priority as the current live vcam, it will become live

[mystic cloak]

They shouldn't. All the ult cameras start with prio 0 and the priorities switch when the ult goes off

[ivory wraith]

I noticed that the camera is still switching in the build

it's just in the wrong position

[weak osprey]

How do i enable the window thing?

Like these blue red lines

[royal tartan]

This should do it

possibly you have to enable some gizmos or something along those lines

[weak osprey]

I have the Game Window Guides enabled tho

What's gizmos?

[royal tartan]

https://forum.unity.com/threads/dead-soft-zone-gizmos-not-showing-in-the-game-view.568132/

[mystic cloak]

its not switching as fast for some reason.

this sdoesnt happen in the editor too, its strange

[full sinew]

question deleted:)

[royal tartan]

I can't figure out if you're asking a question about Cinemachine, Netcode, or animation here

They all seem unrelated

[full sinew]

My main question is whether I should use a single body model for everyone (including the client) or a combination of one body model for other clients and a separate set of arms that only the client-self can see. or is this even important and im overthinking

[royal tartan]

Usually you want separate model for first person view for various reasons

But, this doesn't really have anything to do with Cinemachine

[full sinew]

you're right i should've wrote this to animation channel or modeling or somethn

thank you though 😄

[mystic cloak]

anyone knows why this might be happening?

[cosmic jasper]

Ok so my follow target flips when My character is Upsidown, I need to rotate the main object because its physics. How can I keep the follow target pointing the same direction before flip, I tried code but it was wonky.. The issue isn't there is the follow mode is no long Lock but then when player turns it doesn't stay behind the shoulders. Any ideas how I might solve this ?

You can see here a bit better, the camera stays locked behind shoulders but flip problem is there, if I switch to simple follow now it doesnt stay directly behind the shoulders but it nice and smooth doing a flip , so yeah the the problems are in contrast the camera cannot stay behind shoulders if its gonna flip shoulders point other way makes sense.. I see the problem but no idea how to solve it.
It

or maybe in Simple follow Binding mode is there a way to make it go back to behind the shoulders?

I tried switching binding mode through code when its flipped but looks jarring

[mystic cloak]

Just Upgraded to CM3 and nothing has changed. could using "any camera" mess things up somehow?

[mystic cloak]

not using any camera doesnt fix it either. no idea what to do from here

im not getting any errors in the build either

[ivory wraith]

Do other camera blends behave?

[sand panther]

ok, I'm dealing with a bit of a problem, my cinemachine tends to go wild sometimes

what do I mean by that? I'm using it to make a third person view, and sometimes the mouse controls properly

but sometimes the sensibility goes to 100

and then sometimes go to 0.1

and I can't find a pattern on why this is happening

[royal tartan]

Do you have your own code involved?

[sand panther]

I don't think so, already tested removing every part of the code that reference the cinemachine

with exception the one that make transition from aiming to normal

[royal tartan]

so how are you rotating your camera?

[sand panther]

the only part that seem to be changing is the input value axis

[royal tartan]

how did you configure your Player/Look input action

[royal tartan]

show the configuration of the action itself. This is the pointer binding

[sand panther]

you mean the input provider?

[royal tartan]

No I mean the Look input action

click on that

and show the screenshot

[royal tartan]

hmm not too sure. See if anything changes if you remove the other bindings for example

[sand panther]

nop

but I think it might have something either with the update or with the transitions, either from location or from camera to camera

I found something

this erro is not happening when the display is small

but when I make him bigger, this inconcistence starts

[royal tartan]

that is a sure sign that something in your game is framerate dependent

[sand panther]

but what, I don't know

found the problem

update mode on the cinemachine brain

forgot this existed

thanks for the help

[sudden furnace]

hello im trying to make a fps game and i want to make the camera shake when walking and moving but for some unknown reason it wont let me do so if anyone could dm me and help me out with this thank you

[royal tartan]

What do you mean by "it won't let me do so".

Show what you tried and what happened when you tried it

[viral burrow]

Hey there! I could really, really use some help with my Freelook camera. The camera works as expected in the editor but is way to sensitive in the build.

THis is a demonstration in the build: https://gyazo.com/706412105d7ea01455d4993e7ac8c5e9

And this in the editor: https://gyazo.com/706412105d7ea01455d4993e7ac8c5e9

Any help would be appreciated!

[surreal sail]

For the first time im trying to use Impulse Listener/Source, which seem to be very straight forward to set up according to documentation, but whatever I do I cant make it work. I have Listener on my currently active virtual camera, I have source on some game object, I hit "Invoke" button or try to use GenerateImpulse() through code, and no matter what settings I have (tried almost every one) literally nothing happens. Am I missing something crucial?

[sudden furnace]

well it wont move the camera around as noise when i put it on i watched a channel on how but it still didnt work

[surreal sail]

I have tested in clean environment and impulse works just as it should, but in environment when I want to use it it does not work, like something is disrupting it there. Im Trying to delete every custom script on main camera one by one (there are a fiew) to see if its their fault, but nope... stil doesnt work. What can interrupt it or how to find it?

[royal tartan]

You'd have to show what you tried

[tacit tree]

I need some help, following this tutorial but give different result after changing strategy to pull camera forward

[surreal sail]

nvm, somebody else made a bug in project and time scale was 0 despite game not indicating it X__X

but now I have a serious issue. I have 2 cameras with diffirent look at targets, and blending bewtween them is a mess... it should do ease in out but when I attached some script to debug where lerped look at target is during a blend, it appears that it is clearno not an ease in out. Camera position is lerped correctly, but this look at target goes crazy...

to be clear, this is my simple debug:
transform.position = brain.ActiveBlend.State.ReferenceLookAt;

correction: this video actually had settings with linear blend and not ease in out, but clearly its not linear either

[surreal sail]

I came to a conclusion that this happens only with this camera, so I just need to figure out what can influence lerping look at target position, but I dont have any idea, anyway it is read only so I doubt that someone is overiding it in code or something...

[surreal sail]

remaking whole camera from scratch and pasting all the values in fixed it. I ended up with exactly the same setup but working, so maybe some legacy stuff were serialized in it that broke blending or something, idk... but yeah, seems like unaccesable serialized data or some other meta garbage coused the problem

[slim jewel]

Guys why the post process volume component doesn't affect my scene 💔

[opaque wigeon]

is there any way to add multiple FreeLooks to a camera? i want to flipflop between them depending on the current controller scheme but i get this

is there perhaps a better way to do what i want

right now im setting the properties through code, but it gets messy and bit hardcoded

would be a lot nicer to just use the editor they already have laid out through FreeLook

and to just create two components

[royal tartan]

You should never even add one CinemachineFreeLook to the main camera object

[opaque wigeon]

oh how come

[royal tartan]

virtual cameras (including freelook) should be their own independent objects

separate from the actual Unity camera

[opaque wigeon]

ah i see so the main camera only has the brain and that decides which virtual camera to use?

[royal tartan]

yes

[past flint]

for some reason, when i try to use cinemachine, i dont have the option for a virtual camera, anyone know why this is the case? am using HDRP project and unity version 6 preview

[warm verge]

can anyone tell me how to properly zoom out without having your sprites all that much pixelated? i use hand drawn 256x256 sprites

when standing still its even more pixelated, when moving its fine

[warm verge]

for some reason i can not change ortho size in any options when having pixel perfect cam
i also tried to have the extension added at the virtual camera, dont work

please someone 😦 i only need to change size now! 😦

[royal tartan]

you need to change the orthographic size on the virtual camera

if you're using cinemachine

it's under "Lens" settings

[warm verge]

i do that, but the further i zoom out the more pixelated it gets
the drawing is also somehow more pixelated when standing still, while moving it works

[ivory wraith]

If you're using Cinemachine 3.0, the classes were renamed a bit

e.g. it's just CinemachineCamera now

[past flint]

ah thank you. eventually i was able to figure this out :)

then i had issues with all dolly tracks going at the same time so that was a bit shit

i made multiple dolly tracks

but they all went at the same time

ot should i have done one dolly with multiple tracks?

[ivory wraith]

I don't know what "going at the same time" means

[past flint]

they woul all start at the same time

[ivory wraith]

do you mean you had multiple Cinemachine Spline Cart components, and that they had "Automatic Dolly" checked?

If not, you need to show me exactly what you're talking about

[past flint]

yeah they do have that checked, i dont know how to make them move otherwise

[ivory wraith]

You can turn that on and off via script

or change the speed

[past flint]

how would i do that? i cant find it online

[ivory wraith]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.cinemachine@3.0/api/Unity.Cinemachine.CinemachineSplineCart.html

the documentation reveals all!

[sand wyvern]

Hey guys when I add a free look cinemachine its just black.?

Also where am I suppose to put cinemachine brain

Can I put it on an empty game object

Normal cam works ifne

Nvm I got it

Is there a way to move my free look camera across the rigs

In scene view / pre play

[upbeat linden]

Hello. How can I not return to the starting virtual cinemachine camera after playing the cutscene?

[royal tartan]

Set whatever the desired camera is priority higher

[upbeat linden]

Thank you

[errant shard]

Not afaik, but cinemachine vcam properties can be set to save when edited in play mode

[sand wyvern]

I tested around and I can just use bias

[lavish notch]

Hello, I am using a FreeLook Camera on a faster moving player. My problem is that when the player moves towards the camera, the camera follows too slow to adapt to the player so the player just gets too close to the camera? Is there anyway to speed up the following camera?

so TLDR, anyway to increase the follow speed of my camera?

[errant shard]

Reduce damping values

You can even blend to a vcam with different settings dynamically based on player speed

[lavish notch]

So I need to reduce my camera damping when my player is moving towards the camera?

[lavish notch]

I set my damping values to 0 and the problem still occurs?

oh there are more damping values under Body

ok I fixed it by editing my dampening values thank you very much for your advice !

[sterile oasis]

Hey - Have anyone here gotten world space UI to work with cinemachine cameras? I have a world space button that works with one virtual camera, but doesn't when switching to a camera from a different angle.

[errant shard]

Cinemachine and Canvas are systems that don't interact in this case
Cinemachine moves the real camera between its virtual cameras
Canvas only cares where the real camera is

[fading falcon]

my cinemachine isn't working i guess, i created a free look camera and tried it but it says its not rendering

[errant shard]

You need to manual to understand how cinemachine is meant to be used
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.cinemachine@3.0/manual/index.html

Even just the first few pages

[fading falcon]

got it to work, thx

[tawny surge]

anybody here knows how to make the collider actually work and collide with walls? I tried every single youtube tutorial but it doesn't work

[tropic marlin]

hey, how can I use cinemachine to make the camera follow two players but in online Multiplayer (I can't drag the player prefabs into the target group object)

[royal tartan]

Use a cinemachine target group

add players to the group when they join

remove them when they leave

[tropic marlin]

but how xD

I tried it with a tag but its a bit hard

[royal tartan]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.cinemachine@3.1/api/Unity.Cinemachine.CinemachineTargetGroup.html#Unity_Cinemachine_CinemachineTargetGroup_AddMember_UnityEngine_Transform_System_Single_System_Single_

[royal tartan]

what do tags have to do with anything

presumably your network framework has callbacks for players joining and leaving the game

you also could do it in the OnEnable/OnDisable for the player objects

[tropic marlin]

I mean I tried to find the spawned play using its tag and then adding it "to the script"

[royal tartan]

I'm going to be honest here

[tropic marlin]

Oh thanks 🙂

[royal tartan]

it sounds like you're a very early beginner to Unity

[tropic marlin]

I am xD

[royal tartan]

in which case, it's probably not the best idea to be trying to make a networked multiplayer game

that's a very advanced topic

[tropic marlin]

I have been told that maaaaaany times but I have spent so much time now, I have to finish it xD

but thank you very much for your help 😄

[royal tartan]

you should at least go learn the basics

[tropic marlin]

oh I am working on another project at the same time so I learn them

could you recommend a youtube tutorial or something similar?

*do you

[royal tartan]

!learn

[marble yacht]

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[tropic marlin]

ohhhhh, thank you very much 🙂

[peak gyro]

Is it possible to implement in cinemachine to apply post processing to specific items rather than everything being rendered? I have a stacked camera system that does this--main cam renders normally and an effects cam that renders the effects with bloom.

[royal tartan]

cinemachine has nothing to do with rendering

it only positions and rotates the camera

your question is for #archived-urp and/or #💥┃post-processing

[loud umbra]

im following a yt video. im trying to find the cinemachine.axisstate but im getting errors

did the script change?

[royal tartan]

Share the actual errors

[loud umbra]

Okay i understood the problem this is the video uses the old input system. Now im using the new input system. I wanna control my camera movement using the mouse however i cant figure that out

i have check and it says to use the new cinemachine input provider however there is a message that says that the script is deprecated

what should i use?

[royal tartan]

That doesn't sound related to the error in your screenshot to be honest

Anyway it depends on which version of Cinemachine you have installed

This is the newest:
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.cinemachine@3.1/manual/CinemachineInputAxisController.html

[loud umbra]

The code is suppose to be use to control the free look of the camera however when i type the code the class doesn't exist cinemachine.axisstate

[royal tartan]

1. You haven't een shared the error message yet
2. What to use will depend on which version of Cinemachine you are using, so sharing your cinemachine version is essential

[vestal goblet]

i have this code in the camera

when i run the game the z values of the ship and camera match

so i dont see anything

someone told me to use cinemachine

[royal tartan]

Using cinemachine would mean deleting your script and using Cinemachine instead.

[vestal goblet]

yea how do i use it

is it a component or what

im a beginner

[royal tartan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6Q5sKXjZOM

[vestal goblet]

tysm

[raw turret]

Hi, I'm using Cinemachine and I implemented a mechanic where the camera rotates around a point by pressing E/Q.

The problem I find is that when xDamp is > 0, the rotation is affected and looks bad.

How do you handle this mechanic with Cinemachine?

[loud umbra]

my cinemachine version is 3.1.1

[royal tartan]

Then as I mentioned hours ago/yesterday you can't use what you're trying to use. You have to use the new stuff #🎥┃cinemachine message

[loud umbra]

im trying to implement the new input system to move my thrid person camera cinemachine however the script they wanted us to use which is the input provider now displays a message that says the component is deprecated

should i still use it

i have tried using the inputaxiscontroller

however it requies another component called cinemachineorbitfollow

but the problem is

that the component does not work

im confused now what to use

[royal tartan]

What type of camera are you trying to use it with

[tawny surge]

anybody here knows how to deal with this problem ?

[verbal meteor]

I'm pretty sure it worked basically by default for me, these are my settings, there's nothing else special on the CinemachineVirtualCamera, the walls are simply objects with the layer "Environment" and some kind of a collider.

[tawny surge]

I did the same as your settings and it didn't work out for me, I think it might be because of the cinemachine freelook probably

[verbal meteor]

oh, yeah i don't think i was able to get the freelook one working, i had to use virtualcamera

[tawny surge]

turns out the cinemachine camera offset was the problem when I turned it off, gonna have to adjust the camera offset without using the cinemachine offset somehow

[verbal meteor]

ah yes, i briefly tried the cinemachine offset but I have set my camera 10m away by default and then increased and decreased my "cameraDistance" value with my mouse scroll and at the end of the calculation used this to access the "m_CameraDistance" and set it to update with my "cameraDistance" value

[tawny surge]

that's perfect actually 👌

[verbal meteor]

but now if your game is third person like mine then you'll run into the same issue with zooming in while the camera is against a wall xD

[tawny surge]

actually it's third person, I think I'm cooked now xdd

[timid igloo]

Bruh, I'm using the newest unity 6 cinemachine and I can't even change FOV, how?

[royal tartan]

It's in the lens settings on the virtual camera

[timid igloo]

I mean through scripts.

[rough tinsel]

Hi guys. There's a problem in the game. Explain it or will you understand it yourself? 🙂

[errant shard]

It would be best to explain what you refer to

[royal tartan]

Same answer, lens settings on the virtual camera

[rough tinsel]

Yes. I'll try to explain what I want: I have a player that the camera should be watching. But the player appears at a certain button, that is, initially he is not in the scene. I press a button and the player appears in the scene and the camera should be working and watching him.

In general, to make it convenient, we consider the camera at the GTA 5

[errant shard]

I assume you've set the targets as the player prefab, not any instance of the prefab

[rough tinsel]

yes

[errant shard]

It cannot follow a player that exists outside of your scene in your project assets

[rough tinsel]

if the object was in the scene, then everything would be fine, but it exists as a prefab

and object wasn't in the scene

[errant shard]

They're not the same object

[rough tinsel]

That is, if the object is a prefab, then it will not work out?

[errant shard]

You could have any number of player instances in your scene, but none of them are the prefab asset

When the player appears in the scene, you would then assign that instance as the targets of the vcam

[rough tinsel]

Yes...

Can this be done with Cinemachine?

[fast orchid]

Yes, you can set the properties of the cinemachine component at runtime. When you spawn your player in, you can set the follow/lookat targets of the virtual camera to the player with code.

[rough tinsel]

Can you help with that, please?

[rough scaffold]

Might be a silly question, but I'm still learning to get comfortable with Unity - is there a way to unassign the Look At property here?

nvm I somhow didn't see the top of this menu lol

[errant shard]

You can also click a reference field so it's highlighted blue and hit delete to clear it

[warm verge]

I am trying to create a fade-in-out effect while switching scenes. Therefore, I am in a challange where i must not use UI (Any canvas component counted as UI).
I thought of using Cinemachine Volume Settings in Cinemachine Camera extensions to control the brightness of whole screen by a weight. But how do i control multiple volume profiles at the same time? This only accepts single volume settings in a single Cinemachine Camera. For example, i could want some health low effect if i had a chance to add second Cinemachine Volume Settings
Oh! I realized the Volume component has a weight option too. Okay i believe i found my answer

[royal tartan]

Why can't you use UI exactly?

[warm verge]

It is a game jam with this challange

[rough tinsel]

Somebody can help me, please? The problem is still hanging

[errant shard]

"How to get a reference at runtime to an instantiated object" is a very general problem with many different solutions
You could ask in #💻┃code-beginner but make sure to how you've tried to solve the problem so far and what point you're stuck in

[rough tinsel]

Do you remember how it all started?

[errant shard]

How what started?

[rough tinsel]

What I need is to give a link to the prefab, which is not in the scene

Remember?

[errant shard]

That's exactly what I was talking about just now

[rough tinsel]

Okay... Thank you 🙂

[balmy bay]

Hey so I'd made this cameracontroller way back, it sort of orbits around the car when moving the mouse, but also follows the car. It has a constant distance to the car that can be changed by scrolling (zoom)

I've tried so many things and searched so much to get this exact same functionality, but with cinemachine, but I can't figure it out. Does anyone know how I can replicate this with cinemachine?

[royal tartan]

I would:

• Make an empty object with a PositionConstraint component to follow the car.
• Make a vCam that's a child of the empty object, with an offset position pointing at the empty object.
• Write a script that just rotates the empty pivot object according to mouse input, and moves the camera localPosition according to scroll input. You can have the vCam itself Do Nothing

[balmy bay]

Wait so I can just reuse the script I already have for the Cinemachine camera?

[royal tartan]

I have no idea what script you have

but yes you can use any script you want for a vCam and just set the vCam itself to do nothing

[balmy bay]

nice that's really good to know

thank you

[lilac hatch]

Hi guys, I was directed here. Hope it's a good place for my question

I've got a few orthographic cameras side-by side that I'd ideally like to clear to transparent, and put a singular background behind them i.e. a skybox cam.

Do I have to render the ortho cams to a rendertexture or something in order to match the viewport rect of the background cam?

[ivory umbra]

Sup guys. I'm trying to make a first-person cam, but I can't figure out how to rotate my player based on the where the cinemachine virtual camera is looking?
How to go about this? Please tag me with your response, thanks!

[loud umbra]

Hi i have the latest version of cinemachine 3.1.1 and i want to access the value for the vertical axis of the orbit follow for the cinemachinefreelook camera. Many scripts used in youtube tutorials are outdated. Can i get some help

[loud umbra]

the class is deprecated what should i use then

[errant shard]

If you search for that class in the newest version's docs you would find this page that explains it
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.cinemachine@3.1/api/Unity.Cinemachine.CinemachineFreeLook.html

[loud umbra]

i did some reserch and i found out they changed some things in the cinemachine version 3

so now i have to use CinemachineCamera

but now i have problem with accessing the properties

how should i access the value for the horizontal axis in the orbit follow

[errant shard]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.cinemachine@3.1/api/Unity.Cinemachine.Cinemachine3OrbitRig.Orbit.html
I'd look at this first

[loud umbra]

this is used to change the values for the orbit

no i wanna control the axis for the camera make it move

for someone using the old version the m_XAxis is used to control the X axis

now for the new version

what should be used

[errant shard]

I don't know exactly, but the property path of horizontal axis is now HorizontalAxis.Value, maybe that helps

There's many ways to move a vcam in that situation though, either modifying the rig orbits, their values or value ranges, blending with a vcam of a different rotation, or maybe altering the input signal between the input provider and the vcam

All have kind kind of a different effect and feel

[loud umbra]

its not working

[loud umbra]

Wait i figured it out u were right to some extend u see ur information wasnt complele. First we had to initiate the variable by calling orbitfollow what i did was i called cinemachinecamera

[gleaming harbor]

I hope someone might be able to assist me with this; I'm hard-reassigning my players position ( ie. teleport ) but my cinemachine camera refuses to accept trying to hard-assign it (I need this to work). How can I wrangle in the Cinemachine camera to force this to allow immediate position re-assignment?

[errant shard]

"Refuses" in what way?

[gleaming harbor]

So, the camera still follows after the player once they teleport but it interpolates across the distance the player teleports, instead of just 'being teleported' via position re-assignment.

And I can't just go cinemachineCamera.transform.position = player.transform.position because it just doesn't work

[errant shard]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.cinemachine@3.0/api/Unity.Cinemachine.CinemachineFollow.OnTargetObjectWarped.html
This seems to be the method intended for that situation

[gleaming harbor]

I tried using the following to try to fix it but it hasn't resolved anything:

So, I'm using Cinemachine 2.9.5 so that wont work

[errant shard]

Another suggested option is to disable the vcam, move it, then re-enable

[gleaming harbor]

I tried that but it doesn't work

Oh, wait

Ignore my previous statement. Let me give that a shot

[gleaming harbor]

Still no success with that, sadly.

[errant shard]

Which one?

And doing it how exactly

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.cinemachine@2.9/api/Cinemachine.CinemachineVirtualCameraBase.html#Cinemachine_CinemachineVirtualCameraBase_OnTargetObjectWarped_UnityEngine_Transform_UnityEngine_Vector3_

OnTargetObjectWarped can be found before 3.0

[gleaming harbor]

So, I'm running into an issue with trying to use that function. It's giving me an error :

Vector3 teleportLocation = GameObject.Find("Checkpoint_" + teleportValue).transform.position;
Vector3 teleportDelta = rb.position - teleportLocation;
rb.transform.position = teleportLocation;
Cinemachine.ICinemachineCamera.OnTargetObjectWarped(rb.transform, teleportDelta);

I'm trying to give the OnTargetObjectWarped the players transform but it's rejecting it with the following error:
"An object reference is required for the non-static field, method, or property"

I also can't use serializedField to obtain access to any of the information I need, as those objects exist in different scenes.

[gleaming harbor]

Ignore what I had said previously, that was the solution, I was just using it incorrectly.

Vector3 teleportLocation = GameObject.Find("Checkpoint_" + teleportValue).transform.position;
Vector3 teleportDelta = teleportLocation - rb.position;
rb.position = teleportLocation;
cmFreeLook.OnTargetObjectWarped(rb.transform, teleportDelta);

Thank you very much for your assistance, Spazi.

[errant shard]

[ivory umbra]

Hi, I'm trying to make a first-person cam, but I can't figure out how to rotate my player based on the POV of a cinemachine virtual cam.
How to go about this? Please tag me with your response, thanks!

[velvet gulch]

Has the ability to set separate target offsets for each ring in a Freelook camera/rotation composer been removed in Cinemachine 3? Can't seem to figure it out after upgrading :(

[royal tartan]

Looks like it's all under this now
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.cinemachine@3.1/manual/CinemachineFreeLookModifier.html

Add a modifier for distance or composition

Depending on what you're going for

[velvet gulch]

doesn't seem quiteee the same unfortunately, but i think i can make it work, thank you :)

[sudden isle]

so i have a 2d rpg game and when my player rotates the cinemachine camera rotates with it

[royal tartan]

Rotation of the camera is controlled by the Aim settings you set up on the virtual camera.

Change it by changing the aim settings

[royal tartan]

You can't unify it. Mice in particular have drastically different sensitivity for each person which is determined by the operating system settings as well as your mouse hardware

So even if you unified it for your particular setup, it will be different for someone else

The best thing to do is just have a sensitivity slider in the settings

[sudden isle]

i want it to simply freez the z position i dont want the z position to be change

wait i think it works now

nah not well

i tried switching body to frame transposer

now its weird

[royal tartan]

first you talked about rotation now you say position

show your setup and explain what you want

[sudden isle]

i got mixed up at the start

i will show u the problem

my player rotates 180 degrees on y but the camera for some reasons goes from z position 10 to -10

[sudden isle]

normal

[royal tartan]

show your virtual camera setup

[sudden isle]

when i turn

[royal tartan]

this is much less useful than a screenshot of your virtual camera inspector with Body and Aim expanded

[royal tartan]

Body: Framing Transposer
Aim: Do Nothing

[sudden isle]

still z position changes

and same problem occurs

[royal tartan]

show the inspector after you do that