🎥┃cinemachine

[warm verge]

and when you move your mouse, you can look around a tiny bit

not pan but more of a camera rotating

[novel heath]

You would definitely want to use Cinemachine for that. It's a lot more geared for that than the old camera.

[warm verge]

ok

hey, how do I add that

[novel heath]

Add it via the Package Manager.

[warm verge]

k found it

cool I downloaded it

now what

@novel heath now what?

[novel heath]

I've only played with it in 2D games. You will likely want to find a tutorial a go from there.

[warm verge]

eh ok

what do I search up tho...

[novel heath]

You might start here: https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/cinemachine#

[warm verge]

k

[fervent current]

sorry for crossposting but since this is probably the right channel: I have a script that updates UI "radars" that follow ships. currently this is jittering because I update the UI before the CinemachineBrain moves the camera. How can I make sure my code runs after the CinemachineBrain update?

[terse path]

How do i set up the 3rd person follow virtual cam? im looking at a video and i dont have that option

[warm verge]

try this, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HpC--2iowE&t=928s

it worked for me

[warm verge]

how do I make the camera sorta chase the character

[sweet spoke]

@warm verge Test out Cinemachine from Unity. There are plenty of options you can choose from.

[warm verge]

stop pinging me

[sweet spoke]

You could do a virtual camera and then have it follow the player from third person perspective.

[warm verge]

is cinemachine useful for first person games

would it make it easier to do stuff like camera shake and camera roll
or is it useless for first person games

[royal tartan]

Yeah it makes it easy to do camera shakes etc.

Also first person games often have moments where control is taken away from the player and the camera shows something cinematic

including from first person perspective and not

[sonic depot]

whay you suggest if the lookahead isn't smooth enough ?

[west moss]

private CinemachineFreeLook freeLookCam1;
freeLookCam1.GetRig(0).GetCinemachineComponent<CinemachineBasicMultiChannelPerlin>());```

[warm verge]

how do I make my camera bob side to side/up and down with cinemachine?

I know nothing about it so help would be cool 😄

[west moss]

like a handhelm camera? just set a very low amplitude Perlin noise

[royal tartan]

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

[warm verge]

thx]

[uneven crystal]

I have a first person cinemachine character, but I can't get the body to rotate with the camera's rotation. At first I programmed it in such a way that the W key always moves to the location the camera is looking at. But with more scripts and functions that come in my game, I have crossed the point that it's becoming a serious issue that my character doesn't actually rotate, it's just the camera that rotates. Does anyone know how to lock the character to the camera's rotation?

[west moss]

I ended up custom coding a 1st person cam, and used cinemachine for all the other cams. If you want a copy let me know.

public class FirstPersonCamz : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] public Transform cam;
    [SerializeField] public Transform character;
    [SerializeField] private float charRotateSpeed = 5f;
    [SerializeField] private float charRotateThreshold = 20f;

    void Update()
    {
        RotateCharacter();
    }

    private void RotateCharacter()
    {
            Vector3 relativeAngle = character.InverseTransformDirection(cam.transform.forward);
            float angle = Mathf.Atan2(relativeAngle.x, relativeAngle.z) * Mathf.Rad2Deg;
            float angle2 = 0;

            if (Mathf.Abs(angle) > Mathf.Abs(charRotateThreshold))
            {
                angle2 = angle - charRotateThreshold;
                if (angle < 0) angle2 = angle + charRotateThreshold;

                Quaternion charRotate = Quaternion.AngleAxis(angle2, character.up) * character.rotation;
                Quaternion newRot = Quaternion.Lerp(character.rotation, charRotate, Time.deltaTime * charRotateSpeed);

                character.rotation = newRot;
            }
    }
}```

If you wanna use cinemachine's pov cam, you can use that simple script to rotate the character to the cam.

[uneven crystal]

Thank you, I will try that! Do I have to keep the speed and threshold the same values as they are right now?

[uneven crystal]

Unfortunately the script rotates the character infinitely as if I were playing with a controller joystick. My camera is inside the player gameobject btw. So unless you know a fix for that, I'd like to see how you coded your fps cam.

[uneven crystal]

I have decided to no longer try to rotate the parent gameobject. Instead I now rotate the graphics, which works like a charm.

[lean laurel]

I mapped a secondary Mouse X and Mouse Y to my controller's right joysticks and they make the FreeLook camera turn gloriously, but unlike with my Mouse, the camera can not turn infinitely and after about one round trip around the character it's orbiting around, it stops turning, which is not intended.

Why is this happening?

[plucky wren]

Tried duplicating one of the existing ones and working from there?

Pretty sure full source code is included

I put together a tweaked version of the Cinemachine Collider using the same method

Yea, and you can search the codebase for it

Of your whole Unity project

Yea looks like CinemachineExtensions and CinemachineComponents work a bit differently

If that is what you were asking

Might not be the worth the effort, especially if it can be accomplished with existing Cinemachine components

There is a pipeline that your code has to interact properly with

Could probably use that to position your Virtual camera

Your script

[uneven crystal]

how can I force my cinemachine fps camera to look at the enemy when the player dies?

[royal tartan]

Set the look at target of the vcam to the enemy

[uneven crystal]

it sets the look at target to the enemy, but the camera doesn't actually rotate towards the enemy

[royal tartan]

What are your aim settings

Show screenshot

[royal tartan]

You're using POV so it will ignore the look at target

Set up another virtual cam with the settings you need for looking at the Enemy and then switch between the cameras when the player dies

Using the priority values

[uneven crystal]

so having 2 vcams in the playerbody?

[uneven crystal]

also what setting do I need if pov isn't the correct one?

[royal tartan]

I forget what the look options are but probably a normal composer or whatever

[uneven crystal]

okay thanks, will take a look at that

[sonic depot]

why cinemamachine Brain doesn't do smooth interpolation between frames i'm using clearshot and set the update to fixedupdate ( there's no update / smart update)

it's sorta lag as if my fps low

[royal tartan]

Your target has a rigidbody without interpolation enabled I'd guess

[sonic depot]

how is that

[faint axle]

Hey, anyone have a guide for best practises using cinemachine?

I've just used it for the first time for a game jam. Seems to be working nicely. I was wondering mainly about the "right way" to do transitions. I've just been toggling the virtual cameras on and off.

And checking for isTransitioning property to wait for the transition to end.

Got some pretty sweet effects happening though! https://streamable.com/kz8uh3

[keen heron]

I think you're supposed to adjust the camera priorities rather than having to turn them on and off. But I'm probably as new as you are 🙂

[faint axle]

Ah, interesting.

[keen heron]

I was sorta wondering similarly. For instance, I'm using a Freelook camera to follow my character for 3rd person control most of the time. But sometimes she enters a crowded space like a stairwell where the Freelook has a hard time finding a decent angle. So I thought that having a dolly cam setup in the stairwell would work better for when she's on stairs. But I was wondering if there's an elegant way to have it switch to that camera automatically, or if having a trigger in the stairs that changes the vcam priorities is the "best" way

[faint axle]

I think you'd have two virtual cameras right?

And switch between them? @keen heron

[keen heron]

Yes, currently i’m thinkI have my freelook at priority 8, and then a dolly vcam in the stairs at priority 0. Boost the dolly one to 10 when she enters a trigger on the stairs, return it when the trigger leaves. But i’m new so I’m wondering if that’s the best/cleanest approach

[sonic depot]

why the damping seems as if it's low FPS ?

this might be the problem ,,,,

it doesn't update smoothly

[keen heron]

FixedUpdate is typically going to be a lower frame rate than Update; is there a reason you chose that?

[sonic depot]

there's smartupdate but it has similar rate

there's no update

[keen heron]

Hrm. Sorry, I only started with Cinemachine this week myself so I'm speaking in general. I don't know what "Smart update" is

But I assume Fixed is the usual meaning, which is locked at 50 fps by default I believe?

[sonic depot]

I think that too , not sure about it tho

it might be caused by other factor like damping parameters or perhaps other settings idk

thanks anyway

[royal tartan]

LateUpdate is not available?

Smart update should work regardless

But does your character have a rigidbody?

[sonic depot]

there's Lateupdate but it's even worse ,

my character have character controller component and collider

[royal tartan]

Are you moving the CC in FixedUpdate

[leaden slate]

Why doesn't it allow me to get a cine machine anyone got a clue?

[keen heron]

Can you elaborate on what you mean? Have you installed the package?

[leaden slate]

like I look it up in the asset store like it tells me and it does not work

[fast orchid]

Cinemachine is installed via the package manager now, not the asset store.

[leaden slate]

I guess I watching super old videos now

This is my issue I have searched in them all and this is what it says.

@fast orchid \

[fast orchid]

A quick search for the error on google nets this result:
https://forum.unity.com/threads/error-searching-for-packages-offline.965243/

[leaden slate]

so it wants me to be verified

[modern hound]

Any ideas on how to change zoom on a cinemachine free look camera?

Cause my player is small and I want to increase the cam zoom

[modern hound]

The sensitivity is weird

actually, everything is

The angle, orbits

[royal tartan]

Are you using an orthographic projection by accident?

[modern hound]

Hi

Sorry I didnt replied, it was late

So I zoomed in and all is messed up

Orbits and sensivity

Im not at home right now sadly

[finite lagoon]

When the player is moving towards the camera, they get very close to it, and the radius seems messed up. How could I fix this?

[uneven crystal]

why does my hard lock at target camera move like the player is nodding his head?

[pure canyon]

Hi! Is there a way to make camera follow the target in edit mode?

[royal tartan]

The scene camera or an actual camera?

[pure canyon]

Scene camera

[woeful scaffold]

How to use cine machine in mobile?

[royal tartan]

Same way you use it on every other platform

[woeful scaffold]

Rlly???thank you so much

I meant cinemachine free look..does it work on mobile?

[royal tartan]

Why not?

Just need to map input to it

[feral zodiac]

how to make the chinemachine collider don't react to raycasts?

[sleek garnet]

Hello.

When an object get into my camera view I want to follow it how can I do that

[sick spire]

I wanted to install cinemachine but I get this error, anyone know how to fix it?

(ping me if you do)

[warm verge]

@sick spire rename your PlayerMovement script/class or put it in a namespace because cinemachine has its own PlayerMovement class and they are conflicting

[sick spire]

Thanks! I'll try that

[royal tartan]

I don't think cinemachine has a PlayerMovement class and if they did it would be in a namespace. I think @sick spire simply duplicated their Script by accident and this is not related to Cinemachine at all

[sick spire]

I really don't know, after I removed cinemachine the error didn't come up, then I installed cinemachine again and no error was showing up but I didn't have the options to create a 2D camera or anything like that, I had 2 options that were something like Import packages and Samples

[sweet spoke]

My CM FreeLook cam just started spinning out of control while opening my project this morning, it was fine when I closed it last night. Can't find this to be a common bug with a quick Google search. If anyone knows a solution, let me know. Going to try to work through it now.

My camera is moving about in scene/game views with the game not even running, and I'm not even changing any settings. wtf is going on, this is infuriating.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/497872424281440267/823236997975638016/Flipping.mp4

[sweet spoke]

Wow that was probably the first time I've ever encountered a real bug with Unity.

Even resizing my scene/game screens would make the camera spin around, no clue what was causing it. I'm 99% certain I didn't change anything last night. Pressed play ran around a bit, and went to bed, woke up to the above this morning.

The fix was to delete the main camera, make a new CM Freelook and just copy/paste the values and delete the old CM Freelook. Seems to be all back to normal now, very odd.

URP Unity 2020.3.0f1

[warm verge]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.cinemachine@2.7/api/Global Namespace.PlayerMovement.html
its weird

not sure what the class is for but its there and is in global

[royal tartan]

What on earth?
Color me surprised. I'm going to guess a developer left that there on accident.

[warm verge]

yeah its probably a mistake

[sick spire]

does anyone know why I don't have the options to create a 2D camera? I only have 2 options, to import packages and samples

[dusky rain]

Anyone else experienced weird issues when upgrading to 2020.3 LTS? Suddenly my main camera isn't drawing anything except for the skybox after upgrading...

I'm using the universal render pipeline btw

[royal tartan]

Make sure you didn't acciudentally create another Camera

search for t: Camera in the hierarchy window

also double check the culling mask of your camera

[dusky rain]

Yeah I checked the culling mask and it seems fine

the really strange thing is, if I disable and then re-enable the camera game object in the inspector view, everything is rendered correctly

same thing with the culling mask - I can set it to Nothing then back to Everything and everything renders

[royal tartan]

so is it fixed?

[dusky rain]

No, sorry - I meant if I do this in the inspector while the game is running

[dusky rain]

Everything is stil borken 😄

[sick spire]

does anyone know why I don't have the options to create a 2D camera? I only have 2 options, to import packages and samples

[vernal plank]

I am trying to get my virtual Steadicam rig and running in Cinemachine. It's a standard DSLR with a Vive tracker and DSLR monitor attached. I want to use it for real time virtual cinematography. Does anyone have a guide for setting this sort of thing up? I got it running in Unreal Engine, but I want to figure out how to do it in Unity as well.

[unique prawn]

My camera needs to behave differently if the player is aiming or falling etc. I have multiple freelook cameras that I blend between using a StateDrivenCamera, but the orbit values of the inactive cameras do not update to be behind the player so when I blend between the cameras they are on different position on the orbit. How can I get around this?

[unique prawn]

I found the solution. Just tick this on each freelook camera you want the to inherit the old position on blend

[deep crater]

cool tip, was wondering what that did ) thanks

[errant bobcat]

I'm using Cinemachine with Impulse. Is there a way to ensure the camera returns back to its neutral orientation? After the shake completes, the view slightly askew

[wicked knoll]

Hello guys. I have a case that I can not fix by myself. I make a racing type of game. I`ve setup a framing composer with lookahead and it works for me. But I need a composer so the camera reorients itself around the character in certain situations, but it just doesn't work. When I point behind my character, camera starts rotating like crazy. Feel free to DM me I would appreciate it.

[wicked knoll]

Note: To use Framing Transposer, the Look At property must be empty.

ok then

[woeful scaffold]

whay rlly happens?

my cinemachine component

i fixed it

[reef moth]

Hey, I have a question i'd like to ask you guys about cinemachine. I have this camera on my player that follows him arround but when i get to a certain part like a house or a certain path in particular i'd like the camera to change to some other one. Is there a way to do this without using triggers to detect where the player is at and changing the priority?

[plucky wren]

@reef moth Could just change the priority directly

I don't think the CM trigger is terribly special

[pastel glen]

@reef moth I use a timeline to set the active camera

[nova helm]

Hello... I'm doing a top down 2D game where the character faces the mouse, and i want the character to be able to do something like the lookahead function when pressing RMB to aim, looking forward, but always keeping the character in view . Does cinemachine scripting provide a way to do this? I've tried to script it with a normal camera but it's quite hard

[reef moth]

But with a timeline you can only switch between them timewise right? Like You can't really say "if you enter this room your camera changes to this other one" or can you?

[reef moth]

through the inspector? But that's not exactly what i want, i want to be able to change it midgame automatically as in player gets to spot X and the camera changes, if they decide to go back it goes back to where the player was prior

[pastel glen]

But that's what triggers are for.

And with a timeline, you'd trigger the timeline by where the player goes rather than directly triggering the camera.

[reef moth]

hmm, weirdly i'm not being able to visualize how that can be better then just changing the priority of the camera with the trigger unless you have a lot of stuff that you want to happen during that trigger.

[pastel glen]

Well, I use it for cutscenes mostly.

[uncut pilot]

Is there a camera distance property for free look camera system ?

[uncut pilot]

Just like we have in virtual camera system

[royal tartan]

there are 3 of them

one for each rig

but it's the radius of the rigs

and the height

[uncut pilot]

Yeah I know, but I have to change each one of them whereas in virtual cam I can just one property

[royal tartan]

indeed

[plucky wren]

Not through the inspector. Rule of thumb is that anything you see in the inspector can changed by scripting. Check the source code of CM trigger for inspiration.

[royal tartan]

A rule that Unity doesn't always follow 100% of the time with their builtin components unfortunately

but in this case, yes

[reef moth]

but that's what i asked, what option do i have besides changing the priority via script

[keen heron]

My Freelook camera changed behavior quite a bit after the recent Cinemachine update; it's tracking the character same as ever, but it's acting like it's cemented in place. Anyone else notice problems?

[crisp wave]

whenever i try to enable avoid obstacles, it makes the camera shake like crazy

whats going on with this?

[finite lagoon]

How do I change the Freelook Sensitivity using a Settings Menu Slider to save to PlayerPrefs?

[keen heron]

Figured out my weird tracking bug. Apparently the top/middle/bottom rig of a Freelook camera are themselves Virtual Camera components, and will appear in GetComponentsInChildren<CinemachineVirtualCamera>(). I had a script that went through all virtual cameras I grouped under a specific GO and was setting their target/follow parameters. The Freelook camera is NOT a CinemachineVirtualCamera though. Apparently before the update, setting follow on all three child cameras but not the parent worked. Now it doesn't.

[royal tartan]

I knew that the Freelook itself wasn't a vCam but didn't realize the different rigs were vCams

Interesting

[keen heron]

Me either since the editor hides that

[short kernel]

I have an issue, my virtual 2d camera is not following this object

[royal tartan]

Looks like you're trying to have a camera follow a UI image

UI elements live in Screen Space, not world space

[short kernel]

oh, it cant follow uis?

oh ok

[royal tartan]

Not directly

[short kernel]

I'm trying to make 2d game, but the only thing i can do is pictures, is it possible to just insert my art into the scene and then use cinemachine to follow the object?

[royal tartan]

Use Sprites not UI images

Just a normal GameObject in the world with a SpriteRenderer component

[short kernel]

Oh, okay, thanks for the help, the camera issue was getting frustrating

[royal tartan]

You will have a lot more issues besides the camera if you try to make your game using the UI

[short kernel]

Oh, ok

[tepid tendon]

I'm trying to pull off essentially a dynamic state driven camera that works with instantiated objects. Anyone have a tip?

[royal tartan]

what does "instantiated objects" have to do with it?

[tepid tendon]

Well maybe it has nothing to do with it. But I wasn't thinking I could instantiate objects, then update the animation controller to that object and work off of its respective states

[royal tartan]

I would probably just attach the state driven camera directly to the prefab

as in - it's part of the prefab

[tepid tendon]

And what about the virtual cams? They're part of the prefab too?

[royal tartan]

along with all of its virtual cams

yeah

that's the beauty of cinemachine you can add/remove virtual cams at any time and it works fine

as long as you manipulate the camera priorities properly

[tepid tendon]

Great I will try that then!

[warm verge]

still there in 2.7.3 so i guess its no accident/mistake

[quaint arrow]

is cinemachine performance heavy? I'm looking to use multiple fixed cameras at a time in my game, no fancy stuff only clear shots

[fast orchid]

It's just normal cameras being used, so it's as heavy as multiple normal cameras rendering the scene.

[keen heron]

It might even be less intensive than normal cameras. It's a lot like having a very flexible control script on a single camera.

[quaint arrow]

just discovered clear shot cam, awesome

[quaint arrow]

is there a feature where I can force a clear shot camera switch? I want it to follow the player until the next cam has line of sight

[ebon roost]

when i switch camera's using cinemachine it reset's the onTriggerEnter2D and it's confusing

[tacit prairie]

Hey ! i was asking it is possible to make cinemachine cart move depending of input i make? because i don 't really understand how it's work

[warm verge]

Hey hi How to stop cinemachine freelook camera to revolve around the character

I want it to revolve like an arc not revolve entirely

[keen heron]

If you're going for a 3rd person camera, I recommend checking this out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=537B1kJp9YQ
I started out with Freelook too, but discovered it's not the current recommendation for that. The demo project also demonstrates how to clamp the arc vertically, the same could be applied horizontally easily

[warm verge]

Thanks Yeah I followed the same in here as you have noticed the camera can revolve 360 around the character but I want it to revolve just 180 degree

[keen heron]

Sure, but did you see part where they clamp rotation in the example? They only do it up/down, but I see no reason you can't add a clamp for left/right the same way

I don't know how to do it for the freelook camera

[warm verge]

oh okay thanks let me check to add it

i want a camera setup similar to this below video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmtBOPHHQCY&t=273s

[keen heron]

Looks more like you want the character's rotation to match the camera

The example attached to the video shows that too; they demonstrate a "normal" and an "aiming" camera - when in the "aiming" camera mode, they make the character rotate as the camera does

[warm verge]

let me check them again thanks

[tacit prairie]

So i finally understand how cart work just asking myself how dobyou Guy rewriting cinemachine comportement n

[reef granite]

I am writing a very simple script for a Camera shake, but I cannot get the camera shake to work.
Does anybody have an idea why?
Thank you

[plucky wren]

Isn't that the constant noise component?

There's a separate system for external shakes

[reef granite]

Could you point me to a link? tyia
All I need is a short shake for the Vcam camera, when an event is invoked.

[plucky wren]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.cinemachine@2.7/manual/CinemachineImpulse.html

[reef granite]

Thank you!

[vocal rune]

Longshot, but anyone had any luck doing this? (damping cinemachine camera when getting close to boundary)
https://forum.unity.com/threads/smooth-boundaries.1092910/

[cyan turret]

Hey there
How do I stop a Cinemachine camera from rotating? I want it to follow the player but not rotate on the Y axis. I'm making a top down game, that's why

[warm verge]

Can you do splitscreen with cinemachine?

[fast orchid]

Did you even look online?

Using your exact question in google ^

[warm verge]

Well no

I guess i should look it up first

[fast orchid]

Always

[warm verge]

Sorry to bother you

[plucky wren]

@warm verge The new input system comes with split screen stuff

[warm verge]

I does?! Ok

[plucky wren]

Yea whatever class manages those Player Input components. Make sure to check what samples they have available.

[unique prawn]

I know I can change the damping on the y axis, but is there a feature that allows me to have different interpolation up and down without having to use scripts?

[plucky wren]

@half nymph Don't crosspost.

[half nymph]

But I'm not sure which channel my problem is relevant to

[plucky wren]

Crossposting is not the way to handle it.

[bright owl]

hey guys, I have a question, im making a 2.5D game (still in alpha) and the thing is: im setting up more than 2 virtual camera, so that once the player hits a collider, the camera changes to another one that is focusing to a specific zone, and after he leaves the zone, the camera changes back to focusing the player. Im still new in cinemachine so... does anyone knows how to do it?

[fast orchid]

You can change the priority of the virtual camera in code. The highest priority camera will be used.

[bright owl]

like "vcam.m_Priority = amount of priority" ?

without the " of course

[fast orchid]

Yeah, basically. You'll have to manage which one is the active camera so that you can move the priorities around, but that's the idea.

[bright owl]

got it,I´ll give it a try, thank you!

[vernal bramble]

Im having issues with cinemachine for my 2d platformer. When I have any dampening on, my sprites will jitter. I am using rigid body physics (add force) for all movement in fixed update and I have set the Updatemethod on the Cinemachine brain to 'fixed update' and I still get jitter.

[keen heron]

Is fixed update right for that? The characters keep moving on Update even if they only get forces applied in Fixed right? I'd think you'd want the camera in regular update to keep up with that

[royal tartan]

Do your rigidbodies have interpolation enabled?

[vernal bramble]

They do not have interpolation

Im trying to use the pixel perfect camera now with pixel snapping and it helps a little bit

but it is pretty rocky at the end of some dampening

[pastel glen]

@vernal bramble Why are you applying the forces in fixedupdate? Player input is limited to update.

[lofty plinth]

how can i invert the cam in cinemachine

[royal tartan]

what does inverting a camera mean?

[lofty plinth]

when you move your mouse left camera goes right

[royal tartan]

Are you using FreeLook or something?

[wide kernel]

Does cinemachine only works when we "create" game on unity? Or can we "import" footage from another game even it's not unity-based

[keen heron]

Cinemachine is a tool for controlling cameras, so I'm not really sure what you're asking or mean by "Footage".

If you're just looking to playback recorded video, that's not related to Cinemachine

[wide kernel]

uh yeah, suppose i want to make a film out of a game (for instance, a strategy game which doesn't feature cinematic camera). Even if it's not a game that using unity engine, can it work with cinemachine? (sorry if it's a nut question)

[plucky wren]

Cinemachine only solves the problem of managing cameras in Unity, so it won't somehow pull footage outside of the game or inject itself into some other game

You would have to pull in the assets you want to film

Unless you somehow were able to inject Cinemachine into a game and setup the code to control it

[wide kernel]

ok thanks! 🙂

[fossil palm]

hi everyone! I'm a new Unity user and I was wondering if there were any updated tutorials on cinemachine use for narrative purposes. I plan on creating music and narrative videos using Unity, but I feel like the Cinemachine tutorial on Unity Learn, although lengthy, doesn't cover all the updated features

[tepid tendon]

Kind of a noob question, but how do you properly turn off a virtual camera so that it resets to the main camera?

NVM I realized that you need to create a new "main" vcam and set its priority higher

[wise trail]

Does anyone know if there's a decent alternative to Cinemachine's obstacle avoidance extension? I'm just trying to keep my camera inside a cave, and any dampening whatsoever lets it clip through the cave walls for a bit before settling into it's new position.

[drifting jasper]

Anyone know if I can move a game object (a spaceship) along a cinemachine track? Trying to make a predefined path for my object to move on for the cinematic and not sure the quickest way to approach it. I made a cinemachine dollytrack and added that dolly track to the spaceship which positioned the spaceship at the beginning of the track automatically, but I cant get it to move... I'm pretty new to cinemachine and timeline. Do I need to do something in timeline to get it to follow the track?

[royal tartan]

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

[drifting jasper]

@royal tartan i have the track already built and attached to the game object which is all that documentation covers

[royal tartan]

dolly cart

Do you have a dolly cart?

The docs I sent were for a dolly cart

the dolly cart moves along the path

[drifting jasper]

It just does this when you hit play to run the game?

Or is it a timeline thing i need to figure out to initiate it

[royal tartan]

the cart should go on its own

[drifting jasper]

Hm yeah i have the dolly cart component added to the ship

And then the track path added to the dolly cart component as well

[next acorn]

I'm trying to follow a prefab, but when I spawn the prefab, the camera doesn't follow, what should I do?

It works like this: The player presses a movement button, then the player prefab spawns

It gets the position of where should the prefab spawn
but it stays there

I uhhhh... really want to get over this problem...

[keen heron]

Either make the preconfigured vcams part of the prefab or you need to set the follow targets on the existing cameras when the character spawns

[royal tartan]

One thing I love about Cinemachine's virtual camera setup is exactly what Wyldfire mentioned: You can just make the vCam a part of the prefab, all preconfigured and targeting the thing you want it to target.

[keen heron]

Yeah, it's great. And if you're a little clever about the preconfigured priorities, the new cameras can seamlessly take over for the existing camera upon instantiation (assuming that's what you're after)

Cinemachine is one of the best new things in Unity that I've seen since I picked it up again

[sweet shadow]

hey! im trying to set up 3rd person cam following this tutorial but im having issues with rotating the follow target. When i set up my own camera follow script (not CM) i used 2 pivots - 1 for x axis (up and down) and one around y axis for left and right. the reason is that when i combine them on one object it rotates very strange. so im unable to use cinemachine as a 3rd person cam until i figure out how to code both the x and y rotations together on 1 object. any tips?

[keen heron]

@sweet shadow I really recommend this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=537B1kJp9YQ

[sweet shadow]

thats exactly what im watching but it doesnt explain how to rotate the follow target effectively

[keen heron]

@sweet shadow And it has a project attached with the code and everything to implement it

[sweet shadow]

oh really? my bad. ill check the project code

thankyou

[keen heron]

Its not obvious that the example is there, I'm not used files being attached to Youtube videos 🙂

[sweet shadow]

I dont underestand the game examples code. it has a bunch of functions but never calls them. such as:

public void OnLook(InputValue value)
    {
        _look = value.Get<Vector2>();
    }

~~and to rotate the empty follow target object, its using a public variable, _look.x that is never declared or set as the mouse input. ~~

//Rotate the Follow Target transform based on the input
followTransform.transform.rotation *= Quaternion.AngleAxis(_look.x * rotationPower, Vector3.up);

im obviously missing something but that doesnt make sense to use the _look.x variable that is supposed to be declared from a function thats never called. none of the other scripts call it either

[sweet shadow]

and this is just one function. there is actually 5 functions in total that are never called. yet these 4 different scripts are using the variables that are set in these functions. I'm so confused now lol

[sweet shadow]

solution: Unity new input system

[sage pewter]

Hey, how would I tell the game that the player DOES exist, using code. Basically for my game I had to do, Don't Destroy on Load, and if it's already in the scene destroy that object. So now Cinemachine doesn't think the player exists (I think... cuz I fixed that problem... ish...) but anyway, it doesn't wanna ease in and out when the player is idle / walking.

Sorry kinda confusing.

If you need to see my Cinemachine Inspector I can send Screenshots.

[fathom mango]

Can we make the camera follow player using CINEMACHINE?

[sage pewter]

Yes

[fathom mango]

How

??

[sage pewter]

Oh btw I have this working now

[fast orchid]

Drag a transform into the follow target of the cinemachine brain.

[fathom mango]

Wut

[fast orchid]

Did you make an effort before responding, or are you being that lazy?

[fathom mango]

What is cinemachine brain?

[sage pewter]

This

[fathom mango]

Oo

Is it a component?

[fast orchid]

It's the component on the main camera.

But actually I was incorrect

[fathom mango]

Ooo

[fast orchid]

It goes on the virtual camera itself.

[fathom mango]

No worries

[fast orchid]

You can set it to follow a target, and also look at a target, via a transform.

[fathom mango]

Oo thanks I will try

Also... How to make it 3rd person?

[fast orchid]

Change the Body to Transposer on the virtual camera, and play with the Follow Offset position.

[fathom mango]

Oo

[fathom mango]

How to change it to transposer?

[fast orchid]

There's a lot of settings, just experiment with them until you have something you want.

[fathom mango]

Aha yes Ik

Thanks bro

Niven writing essay :D

[sage pewter]

I was just thinking up a tutorial

Make an empty object, put main camera and another Player follow / State Driven Camera inside of the empty as well. Then add player to follow.

Inside the CinemachineStateDrivenCamera

[fathom mango]

IK That one

[sage pewter]

Oke

[fathom mango]

But I am working through brackeys tuts

And I am banned from that server..

This is the only hope

[sage pewter]

Ooof

[frail plover]

are you allowed to use cinemachine on a finished game?

[fast orchid]

Yes of course ...

[umbral raven]

Seen this question asked quite a bit recently.. very strange

[royal tartan]

Cinemachine - it's so good it's unbelievable that you can just use it!

[faint axle]

I have two "framing transposer" virtual cameras with a very large deadzone, and I swap between them to ensure that their targets (A and B) are kept on screen. However, I'm finding that when I transition from A to B the camera will center on B even if it was already well and truly within the deadzone. Is this a bug I should report, or a feature I need to hack around?

[faint axle]

Ah-ha! It turns out you can enable "inherit position" to solve this issue. Marvellous!

[warm verge]

anyone else having the issue where cinemachine stutters alot when rotating around the object it is following?

when my character runs and the camera rotates around him the camera wont stutter, but if he is standing still and the camera rotates (orbits) around him the cinemachine wil stutter like crazy

I use an empty object as a parent for the camera, then just rotate that empty parent so the camera will orbit around that empty now rotating center object

or is that the wrong way to do it?

[royal tartan]

That's a perfectly fine way to do it

Usually stuttering comes from a mismatch between the update strategy for the camera and the object it's following

[warm verge]

cinemachine uses smart update

i can try changing the rotation to fixed and set the camera to fixed aswell then hey should update at the same time

let me give it a spin ill kepp you posted

[royal tartan]

Yeah how does the rotation work exactly - is it manually controlled by the player? Or based on the character rotation? or what

Smart Update is generally good but sometimes people move their character with a Rigidbody but rotate the transform directly

[warm verge]

YOU ARE A BOSS

thats how it works

set it both to fixedupdate and it looks like an AAAA game now

and i use Q and E to rotate the camera, the player is always looking where the mouse is in worldspace

[royal tartan]

awesome!

and yeah It's kinda crazy how Cinemachine can suddenly upgrade your game to looking really amazing with some simple settings lol

[warm verge]

yeah its up there with the greatest tools imo

ive just started using it but i can tell you could make some really good cinematics

im gonna go, good night mate and thanks again! I thought this would take a lot of time to fix but you saved me a lot of it!

now I can sleep peacefully 😆

[earnest gate]

My character seems to be walking into the soft zone sometimes, why does this happen?

I have the lookahead feature on, but when the character walks into the soft zone, the screen bounces back and forth and the actual lookahead gets delayed by it. After a few seconds, the camera snaps to the position is should be.

[wintry quiver]

Hello,
I'm using a target group component and i dont understand why my virtual camera is not looking all of my characters in the bounding box whereas my target group component is focusing them
It's been a while since i have this problem but i dont manage how to solve it

if i increase the dolly out , it zoom out so it should be ok but it doesn't zoom as well

[open forum]

how do I limit where cinemachine can go, cuz rn if my character starts level there I only want them to see in front of him not the void behind

[keen heron]

I think you want a 2d Confiner; they go over it in this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWqX8GxeCBk&t=139s

[hushed flax]

hi guys me need help

Who used the Cinemachine package? why after this package my player textures are buggy?

the sprite shakes when walking

[wintry canopy]

Make sure you are not parenting it directly and setting target. And try switching update mode between LateUpdate and FixedUpdate (it's a property in Cinemachine)

[wintry canopy]

That's an Editor inspector error. Try resetting layout to default one, restarting Unity.

[hushed flax]

@wintry canopy okay thx

[open forum]

ok i have an issue, my camera and cinemachine all use the dontdestroyonload script, however due to this I can't find a way to link the 2d confiner each level since it changes, can anyone help me here?

[blissful sentinel]

I can't get my video to work on webgl

I tried the video url with the path to the StreamingAssets folder method, but it doesn't work

[blissful sentinel]

nvm, I was using an unsupported file format

[hushed flax]

If I turn on these markets, then my character sprite starts to shake, how can I fix this?

[keen heron]

Make your Cinemachine VCam into a prefab that you include in each level and then customize to fit it, rather than using dontdestroyonload on a special one.

[open forum]

is there a way that if I make it a prefab i can have a script automatically reference it as my player has scripts that reference the vcam

[keen heron]

I'd say either stick a script on the prefab that "finds" the player during Start() or Awake() or similar and hooks it up, or if you already have code doing level startup you could find the VCam by a tag or similar

[open forum]

ok, and then would i need the main cam to be a prefab as well?

[keen heron]

Not neccesarily. As long as it carries a brain VCams can come and go

[open forum]

ok cool, would the vcam automatically link its follow or do i need to script that?

[keen heron]

I'm not sure I see an advantage to saving the camera, but if you have one then I don't see any harm either way

The startup thing would have to link the follow since it sounds like the character is travelling between levels

[open forum]

yeah it is

[keen heron]

In 3D games I often recommend making VCams part of the player prefab directly so that they're "part" of the character, there's no reason to be stingy with them. But I'm not sure that makes much sense for 2D.

[open forum]

its 2d so

[open forum]

oh hey i forgot something, I'm an idiot and have no idea how to make something a prefab

[keen heron]

haha

It's easy, just set it up how you like, then drag it from the scene to the assets

You're not an idiot 🙂

[open forum]

how do i make it a prefab tho?

[keen heron]

It becomes one when you drag it from the scene into assets. The asset should be a little blue box

That's a prefab. When you drag a prefab to the scene, then it's "linked" to the asset and any changes you make to the asset version will apply to all the scene version. But you can still do changes "on top of" the base version in each scene if you want.

[open forum]

oh ok

[keen heron]

It's convenient because it you make changes to say, the deadzone or the camera distance or something you can get all those changes in every scene that uses the prefab all at once. But if each scene needs a custom confiner or anything else you can do that too.

[open forum]

ok nice

how do I Individually change the stuff?

[keen heron]

When you drag your prefab into the scene, you can edit the version in the scene. Anything you change becomes an "override" for that copy of the prefab only.

You should probably look up Prefabs in teh manual, they're pretty useful in general

[open forum]

oh ok

[open forum]

How do i do this, my vcam has a system to turn the player into a "player" gameobject in a script but i cant set the follow

[keen heron]

camera.Follow = whateverTransform

You might need to do something like CinemachineVirtualCamera camera = GetComponent<CinemachineVirtualCamera>(); (warning: Phone-typed code)

[open forum]

Ok

[open forum]

i tried and the follow isn't setting

ive tried a lot of different forms but nothing :p

[keen heron]

Is player coming out null, so that you're setting null to the follow param?

It definitely works, I do this myself

[open forum]

no the player is setting

its the follow

CinemachineVirtualCamera camera = GetComponent<CinemachineVirtualCamera>(); I know that gave errors

[keen heron]

Oh. What's the script attached to?

[open forum]

wdym?

[keen heron]

The script you put that code into, what object is it attached to? I was assuming it was on the same gameobject as the CM VCam

[open forum]

yeah it is

i put the code on the whole prefab

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

public class FindPlayer : MonoBehaviour
{
    CinemachineVirtualCamera Cam = GetComponent<CinemachineVirtualCamera>();
    public GameObject player;
    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        
    }
    private void OnLevelWasLoaded(int level)
    {
        player = GameObject.FindWithTag("Player");
        Cam.m_Follow = player.transform;

    }
}

that's everything and ive used both m_Follow and just Follow

@keen heron any idea?

[keen heron]

Oh, I don't think you can initialize like that. Put the GetComponent thing in OnLevelWasLoaded

[open forum]

ok

IT WORKS TYSM

This is my first game and it's main mechanic has a lot of wierd camera shenanigans so this was bugging me

[keen heron]

Glad it's working 🙂

[open forum]

yeah thanks bro

[modern hound]

Hi! Can I make the cinemachine zoom out when colliding with an object and zoom back when leaving the collider?

[royal tartan]

Use two virtual cameras and switch between them in OnCollisionEnter/oncollissionexit

[plush plaza]

And one easy way to switch is by by setting the virtual camera's priority to 10000 on enter and back to 0 on exit

[frigid agate]

how to setup the camera movement for the cinemachine?

the problem i am having is that the Y Axis doesnt move

[hushed flax]

What are these parameters responsible for?

if I turn on my character sprite shakes when I move

wtf help please fix

[royal tartan]

They're for adding a smoothed-out delay to the camera's behavior

sometimes they don't play nicely with some stuff

Does your character use physics-based movement?

[hushed flax]

yes

@royal tartan

[royal tartan]

what does that "movement smoothing" thing do on the CharacterController2D script?

Do you have "interpolate" enabled on the Rigidbody?

any of this stuff can throw Cinemachine off its ball. Try playing with the update mode on the Cinemachine brain.

[south scarab]

Hi guys,

I wanted to learn how to make interactive videos by unity.
https://showcase.withgoogle.com/demo/cloud-city

Is it possible to make a video that is in the above link by unity?

[frigid agate]

can i make my camera move around the player like a sphere

[north fiber]

Hello! How would you use Cinemachine to reproduce Crash Bandicoot's style? I managed to re-create but i'm not sure if it is the right approach. Could you please take a look?

https://forum.unity.com/threads/how-to-transition-from-top-to-side-view-like-crash-bandicoot.1105090/

[raw dust]

The way you are doing seems to be ok.
On Crash it seems to not have the intermediate Camera on Stairs, but that is because the back camera already films it from a mid-height angle.

[keen heron]

Yeah, VCams are cheap. Having as many as you need and flipping between them seems to be a good approach

[royal tartan]

Is there any built-in way to get an event when Cinemachine is starting or ending a blend between virtual cameras?

My use case is that I'd like to reposition my "main" virtual camera while it's not active but I want to wait until the transition to a secondary camera is complete before doing so.

[keen heron]

I'm not sure; but why wait? I don't think it'll affect the blend or anything

I see "Cut" and "Activated" events, but nothing about the transition period

The brain has VcamActivatedEvent, which says:
/// <summary>This event will fire whenever a virtual camera goes live. If a blend is involved,
/// then the event will fire on the first frame of the blend.

So you can at least do that

Out of luck for the end of the blend as far as I can see though unless you want to calculate it forward from the curve.

You should be fine moving the original vcam once it's started to move away though

Have you tried changing the priorities or activating the cam or whatever to cause the switch and then moving the original vcam immediately though? I'd be kinda surprised if that made it blend from the old vcam's new position.

[royal tartan]

Wait it won't affect the blend if I move it right after the blend starts?

I didn't even try that

i assumed it would

[keen heron]

I wouldn't think so. It's blending the real camera's position to the new Vcam's position right? I don't know why it would care where the original vcam is after it starts

Caveat: I also haven't tried it personally 🙂

[royal tartan]

that makes a lot of sense

I'll give it a shot when I get back to that as I've moved onto other priorities for the moment

Honestly can't believe I didn't try it in the first place

[keen heron]

Hope it works!

[orchid turtle]

how do I lock my cinemachine camera so it doesnt move in the y axis?

[warm verge]

@orchid turtle I got the same question 😂

I been trying to work it out for past 3 days

how do I lock my cinemachine camera so it doesnt move in the y axis?

just so I put it out there lol

@ me if anyone ever responds please

[warm verge]

@orchid turtle I worke dit out

https://gyazo.com/f91abec6a50dfd8406da58862285245b

you need to play around with binding mode under bodyu

seems to do the trick

I find world space works best for me

https://gyazo.com/3d01036fbb5c35b62b650ad36669ae4c

[placid rivet]

Is the Cinemachine the tool that people use to make cutscenes or am i misunderstanding it

[keen heron]

It can be used for that, but probably you're thinking of Timeline

Cinemachine is more a tool you'd use along the way to make camera angles easier to get, but Timeline is how you'd plot out what happens when

[placid rivet]

No I meant like, when there are really movie-esque scenes in games, I'm asking if thats the tool they use to do those or if it's something else entirely

[wintry sluice]

Hello! Does anyone know how to toggle the Horizontal and Vertical Recentering bools from a script on a VirtualCamera using POV?

This does not work...

This fixed it, all good!

[umbral raven]

so many GetComponents!

[astral turtle]

When using a State-Based camera in Cinemachine, is it possible to have the cameras automatically move along their dolly track or orbit a character without any input, or do you need to use an Animation State to move the objects around?

[keen heron]

@astral turtle If a camera is on a dolly and has a follow target, it'll move along the dolly to the closest position on its own. For an orbit, you can have it "follow"and/or look at a child GO attached to your subject, and make a little script to make the child GO spin. Kind of like setting up a 3rd person adventure camera but without the user control

[sweet shadow]

hey guys does anyone know how i can access cinemachines variable shown in this picture? Body > rig > camera distance

taking for ever manually searching through this https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.cinemachine@2.1/api/Cinemachine.AxisState.html

since the filter returns no results and the search bar at the top right only searches in google

[sweet shadow]

honestly what the hell is this documentation ive linked? it's the most useless thing ive ever tried to use

[royal tartan]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.cinemachine@2.7/api/Cinemachine.Cinemachine3rdPersonFollow.html#Cinemachine_Cinemachine3rdPersonFollow_CameraDistance

To actually get the 3rdPersonFollow you use https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.cinemachine@2.7/api/Cinemachine.CinemachineVirtualCamera.html#Cinemachine_CinemachineVirtualCamera_GetCinemachineComponent__1
myVirtualCam.GetCinemachineComponent<Cinemachine3rdPersonFollow>()

[sweet shadow]

Thanks Praetor!

[warm verge]

Yo

[royal tartan]

Can you show your Body settings on the virtual cam?

[warm verge]

Just a sec

There u go

@royal tartan ^

[royal tartan]

Have you played around with the different binding modes?

[warm verge]

Yea with no roll it went crazy with rotation

[royal tartan]

Or different things besides Transposer entirely?

for example 3rd person follow

or framing transposer

[warm verge]

Didn't try it

Third person follow doesn't Lemme set the position for some reason

FRAMING TRANSPOSER WORKS

@royal tartan ^

[royal tartan]

sweet

[warm verge]

Still gotta edit some stuff to make it look better but atleast it doesn't rotate

[royal tartan]

In the future if you want more control you can also make a separate object (not a child of the ball) that follows the ball in Update (position only). Then have Cinemachine follow that object

[warm verge]

@royal tartan found the issue xD. So it worked with framing transposer because offset was 0 in all 3 axes and instead I was using Camera distance

As soon as I try to create an offset it starts going crazy again lol

[little hemlock]

why does the free look camera have 3 rings?

[royal tartan]

because it's actually 3 separate virtual cameras duct-taped together

not kidding

[wintry sluice]

Yeah, it's all very proof of concept right now

[lofty plinth]

guys my camera keeps going up alone , whats the prob ?

[reef moth]

hey i got a question. I might be overlooking some seetings but i'm not sure how to do this. So let's say i have my camera 1 and i have a trigger to increase the priority to camera 2. The way it shifts right now its like that. It just goes through the character and makes a weird angle. Is there a way to change it and try to keep a certain distance from the target that they are looking at by making an arch or so?

like so

while facing the target

[keen heron]

The only way I can think of would be to have a third camera between the two that you transition through.

Possibly with a dolly track if you want it to be a really smooth arc

As in, camera 3 follows a dolly track that you set the beginning and end of to the same position as cameras 1 and 2, transition to camera 3 at camera 1's position, move it along the dolly until it reaches the end, then switch to camera 3. It's a little bit of work and you'd have to consider whether the transition should be cancellable and how... but the effect should be nice.

Alternatively, you could just have a single camera on a dolly that just moves itself from position 1 to 2, but that might not work depending on what cam 1 and 2 are setup to do and if they don't necessarily share settings etc.

[reef moth]

hmm, i think what i'm trying to go for wont allow me to do that =/ Basically you have a free camera that follows the player but if you enter a house it shifts to a camera on the side/corner of the house

the issue is that if you enter with the camera on a weird angle when it is free it tends to make some weird turns to shift

[keen heron]

Well... you can change the start/end of the dollly track to anything you like before the transition, so I still think you COULD do it. But maybe it would make more sense to just cut?

[reef moth]

but then for it to arch i'd need a 3rd middle point

[keen heron]

Sure, but dolly tracks allow N points. You'd have to calculate the middle point on a curve, but it should at least be possible

There may be a nicer way, I just can't think of one

[reef moth]

Found it, it just have to set the blending to cilindrical or Sphere (depending if i want it to shift up or not) and it will try to walk arround the play i think

[hollow axle]

guys, if anyone can help write a script to keep the objects in the scene at a constant distance from the camera?
If the camera moves, then the objects move with it and remain at the same distance to the camera as before?

[reef moth]

cant you just parent those objects to the camera?

[hollow axle]

Hey, thank you for answer!
I mean I could, but we need some sort of smooth movement towards and backwards

[hollow axle]

And same time to keep the distance the same

[hollow axle]

And if we parent the objects to the camera wouldn't the objects rotate with camera as well?

[reef moth]

Hmm, what exactly do you wanna do?

[hollow axle]

Like image 1st person camera
and you walk around
and see objects and want to get to them, but they "run away"
and when you walk away from objects, they follows you

[reef moth]

well, have a player game object with the camera parented onto it. You move the player object when you wanna move arround. Parents the object you want to chase you to the player and have the camera rotate arround

[hollow axle]

hm, I'll try it then, I hope It'll work

oh and one more question
you walk down the hallway and see a "coin"
you get that coin and the whole location flips so now you walk on the ceiling, not on the floor
is it possible to do some code so it'll work?

[keen heron]

This is great to know!

[little hemlock]

how do i get a freellook camera to start on the middle rig?

[reef moth]

if you got the whole scene on a gameobject where the origin is the camera you can easly make a script that lerps the rotation 180º

[hollow axle]

Sounds easy
May I ask you if you have time and wish to help to write the code and show where to put it?
I mean we need to make projects quickly (project for school) and teacher said "eh just Google it, it easy"...

[reef moth]

When you wanna start

bool isRotating = false;
Quaternion startrot =  Quaternion.Euler(transform.rotation.x,transform.rotation.y,transform.rotation.z);
Quaternion endrot =  Quaternion.Euler(transform.rotation.x,transform.rotation.y +180,transform.rotation.z);

then you do something like so:
if (isRotating) transform.rotation = Quaternion.Lerp(startrot, endrot, Time.time * speed);
if (endrot == transform.rotation) isRotating = false;

[hollow axle]

thank you sooo much!🙌
we'll try it now

[hollow axle]

and about the question that asked before about the distance and objects
the code like :

public Transform player;
public Vector3 offset;

void Update()
{
transform.position = player.position + transform.position - player.position;
}

will it work?

[reef moth]

dont think so why did you remove the player position?

[hollow axle]

<
I wish I knew aha
Where should I place "player positions" line?

[reef moth]

is the player postion 0,0,0 at the start?

also i think this is a conversation we should have over at the coding channel, not in the cinemachine one

[hollow axle]

I noted you there, in beginner-code

[burnt geyser]

The workflow is to have different vcams all control Main camera, or to have multiple cameras and multiple vcams?

[fast orchid]

Multiple vcams for the main camera.

Unless you need another camera for some reason.

[keen heron]

It's possible to have two regular cameras, each with a brain, and each with seperate sets of VCams. I have that for a render-texture setup I'm using

Well, any number of regular cameras really. I'm using two but there's no set limit.

[burnt geyser]

^ am trying to do that too

[keen heron]

I set it up awhile ago, but if I recall correctly it "Just works" through the Culling Mask property of the Camera itself.

[burnt geyser]

You're supposed to change cams by altering the priority in code, right? Not by making certain vcams inactive/active?

Is it important for performance to disable vcams you aren't using? Or can you just bump the priority of the vcam you need to use and let the others idle?

[burnt geyser]

Also, I'm trying to do myVcam.enabled = true; and it isn't working at all

[keen heron]

Priority is preferred I believe, yeah. I don't think it matters for performance if you just leave them enabled.

[reef bane]

could someone suggest why this doesnt work

[fast orchid]

Assigning a value is single =.

[reef bane]

yeah but its still wrong, iv no idea why?

your right but it just changed its fault

[fast orchid]

Because you need to assign a Transform.

[reef bane]

?? how do you mean

like transfom.postion

[fast orchid]

Well, the transform of your viewingPoints[1];.

Right now the type is GameObject.

[reef bane]

viewingpoint is a array gameobject already though?

[fast orchid]

Yes, and the follow property of a CinemachineVirtualCamera requires you assign a Transform

You can get the transform of any GameObject via it's .transform

[reef bane]

viewingpoint[].transfom

[reef bane]

wait so like this?

[fast orchid]

No ...

cam.Follow = viewingPoints[1].transform;

[reef bane]

iv never really used transforms outside tutorials sorry

[fast orchid]

Alternatively, you could just make the array public Transform[] viewingPoints; and use that instead. Either works really.

[reef bane]

is this more effective on performance?

[fast orchid]

It's a non-issue.

[reef bane]

ok

thanks for the help

[steady edge]

Hi everyone, I'm new to cinemachine, I've been following a tuto in order to get the basis but I'm having a problem... when I move my player in any direction, the camera rotation changes pointing up, down, left or right depending on the direction... do you know why it could be happening?

In order to move the player I'm using the usual script and the player controller component

[steady edge]

at the beginning I'm moving the camera with the mouse, but when I start to walk you can see how the camera starts rotating and pointing up and down

[keen heron]

I think you're going to have to show how the camera is setup. How are you moving it via mouse?

[steady edge]

Hi, I'm moving with WASD keys, I will upload a picture about camera config as soon as I arrive home

[steady edge]

As I promise, I send images about camera config

that's the scene, as simple as it seems

that was the cinemachine camera, and finally camera brain

that's how it moves

thanks a lot and sorry about the images... I thought they would group in the same way whatsapp does...

[eternal harness]

uhm, all days during hours and hours. I am looking into how can I stop my stupid camera to JITTER, can someone please help me. I am using Freelook Cinemachine, so I dont really have control. I know it must be a stupid value to increase or decrease or a checkbox to check but I dont know wich. Ive messed up with everything. Deleted the camera build a new one. Same issue... I am tired, like to finish the day with this fixed!

[fallow yacht]

There's three update methods. Smart (which isn't), LateUpdate and FixedUpdate. Depending on how your gameObject (the target of your Freelook) is moving, one of these will work, another will be needlessly expensive and might jitter, and the other will definitely jitter.

[fallow yacht]

If you're using physics to do your gameObject control, just set it to FixedUpdate to see what it looks like. This is on the Main Camera, in the CinemachineBrain Inspector, the property labelled "Update Method"

[eternal harness]

just done it, did not work...

[fallow yacht]

If none of the top three options work, you can do a manual update at a VERY late stage, right before rendering of each frame, that might (should) work, regardless of everything else. But you'll have to learn a lot about how Unity's frame timings work, and how the callbacks can be sorted/set so as to ensure you're actually making this call late.

What was this originally set to? Before you just changed it?

[eternal harness]

Smart update

[fallow yacht]

Try LateUpdate

One of these three invariable works well. If not, we're going to need see what kind of jitter you have, as it's being caused by something in the world messing with your camera.

[eternal harness]

the 3 does not work

the best one was late

fixed was a mess

[fallow yacht]

Ok, can you record the jitter in a video?

[eternal harness]

sure

[fallow yacht]

Show the jitter in both Fixed and Late, it will be interesting to see what the difference is. Also, check for physics bodies that might be interacting with the camera.

[eternal harness]

Well the player is using physics to move

actually rb.velocity

I can send you all my scripts I have no issue with that

[fallow yacht]

I don't need/want to see scripts. a video of the jitter is way more informative, to me.

[eternal harness]

https://streamable.com/70yw6w

This is with Smart

Actually its working better with smart

lemme record for fixed

[fallow yacht]

Which Unity version are you using?

[eternal harness]

2020.3.0f1

On my other computer wich has the 2020 LTS version. Same issue...

https://streamable.com/27timz

This is for fixed

[fallow yacht]

What's your fixedTimeStep length set to in preferences?

Default is 0.02 seconds

[eternal harness]

where is that?

[fallow yacht]

Sorry, I'm on a Mac... so for me it's Edit>Project Settings>Time

Not sure where it is on a PC

[eternal harness]

0.02

same

I did not messed up with that...

[fallow yacht]

And what vSync settings are you using? If you don't know, that's fine, just tell me if you've ever changed it.

[eternal harness]

Well, I am on laptop....

I used to use G-sync on my other computer...

[fallow yacht]

Argh, ok. No worries. Set that fixedTimeStep to 1/60

[eternal harness]

but rn its laptop and I did not have messed up with that

[fallow yacht]

Just type in 1/60 where it's got 0.02, this will fix a lot of issues.

[eternal harness]

done

and btw it did not fix the issue

[fallow yacht]

Change to fixedUpdate, and see if that's fixed it.

[eternal harness]

yup already tried...

Ive even messed up with blend update method

and tried all combination possible...

[fallow yacht]

Hummmm.... very interesting. You're using 3D physics?

[eternal harness]

ofc, I mean Rigidbody right?

yeah I use that

to move the player and I play with the velocity

[fallow yacht]

What are your damping settings on the virtual camera?

[eternal harness]

tho should I place a fixeddelatime on the velocity?

[eternal harness]

its a freelook camera

and I have not messed up

a lot

like I just modified the rigs radius

added collision extension

yeah pretty much. I tried in play mode messing with damping its somehow half or quartly solved the problem tho...

I mean there was less jittering

but still

[fallow yacht]

Yes, if you're changing velocity, or anything physics, it's best to do that in fixedUpdate with deltaTime.time... somewhat. There's rules about this that I break all the time to get smooth movement

[eternal harness]

I can try

[fallow yacht]

sorry, Time.deltaTime

[eternal harness]

tho the value of speed will have to be 1000+

[fallow yacht]

in 2020.2, they finally fixed Time.deltaTime

I'm not sure I know what you mean by speed 1000+

Though, with physics, the numbers can be huge, or tiny, to get desirable results.

[eternal harness]

yeah well the speed value. also its still jittering..

btw I have no problem sharing the project if you want to look into it by yourself.

I never planned to loose a complete day for a camera... Ig thats how game dev works...

[fallow yacht]

Ok, beyond me. I think you'll have to describe your whole test rig in here, to get fuller help: https://forum.unity.com/threads/damping-on-freelook-camera-cause-shakings.609688/

Luckily, Gregory is about the only Unity forum user that's got good communication skills.

[eternal harness]

Ive saw this dude posts during all day...

I know him like a friend now...

[fallow yacht]

Describe your whole rig in there, in those forums. I can't see what you're doing with physics bodies, which must be interacting in a weird way. There's a lot of (excuse the pun) variables that need to be sorted in just the right way to get physics and cinemachine and rendering to all play nice.

[eternal harness]

so I should post my issue there? But uhh, I just followed some brackeys tutorial so I am not sure what to say actually...

[fallow yacht]

It all looks like it's something that should "just work" but that's not how it is, especially if you can see jitter. Some people can't see it. Bless them.

Oh. Brackeys. The less said about them the better.

[eternal harness]

wdym?

[fallow yacht]

You'd be better off reading the manual and the script reference and wasting a couple of days experimenting than ever watching their videos.

They do just about everything in the least performance and laziest way possible so they can put out videos with the least efforts.

[eternal harness]

Oh well they make it very simple for dumb people like me....

[fallow yacht]

It looks like professional video productions, and well supported, which is just an act.

[eternal harness]

Well anyways, so I should read some manual about free look camera?

[fallow yacht]

The truth is ugly. Physics simulations, frame timings, time itself, camera following and subsequent rendering is all quite a mess, that can go wrong in 100's of ways, and only ever work in one or two ways.

[eternal harness]

then ask my issue there

[eternal harness]

Well , I think I am going to review my code and try to make everything in FixedUpdate or Something...

btw I should record the input in update

then physics in fixedupdate

[fallow yacht]

Probably the best way is to restart Unity with a blank project, load up Cinemachine (latest stable) and start looking at their example files, included with Cinemachine. There's a bunch of scenes in there. You'll learn more dissecting Cinemachine's demo scenes than ANY OTHER WAY!!!

[eternal harness]

Good Idea! I am going to look into this Thank you. If there's an exemple scene where the camera works perfectly then I just need to move my project there or something.

or try to copy how they do stuff

[fallow yacht]

Gregory is not just a good writer on the forums, he's also a VERY good programmer, so his demoscenes are very informative.

[eternal harness]

btw Gregory is the one that made Cinemachine?

[fallow yacht]

He's the programmer half of the team, Adam Myhill is the designer and camera/film nutter. Both super cool.

[eternal harness]

Wow, epic stuff...

Its always the kind of project I would to do, but enough IQ

Not enough*

[fallow yacht]

I think you'll find Cinemachine, once you grok it, is the number one reason to use Unity. It's quite fantastically well thought out and implemented. These two deserve us drinking to them. Toasting their talents.

[eternal harness]

Yup (when I will make my stuff work lol)

but there are not the one to blame but me

Anyw I appreciate your help mate! Thank you so much!

[fallow yacht]

Sorry I couldn't be any ACTUAL help. Good luck with the demos, and feel free to ask me any other questions. Hopefully I'll be more help next time 😉

[eternal harness]

No worries (btw sorry for late I was sleeping)

Today is a new day and I am going to make it work!

[eternal harness]

well uh problem is fixed weirdly... I mean Ive created a new project and did the mouvement using Character Controller and it worked perfectly!

Now I guess I have to move everything...

[fallow yacht]

This sort of thing has happened to me in Unity, quite a bit, too. Not so much recently, but in my first year... all the time. I don't know why. Perhaps restarting Unity and computer, and then creating a new project clears something out that merely starting new projects does not.

[timber verge]

How can I get two cinemachine cameras orientation to match up when I blend between the two?

[wet cliff]

Situation: I want to have a camera that follows the player but doesn't turn with it, like a fixed isometric camera

Using Cinemachine what happens is that the camera will always follow the rotation of the Follow object, but I want it to only follow its position

Nevermind, solved: I just had to leave LookAt empty 😐

[amber bison]

How can i also get screen shake to apply to the canvas?

[sweet shadow]

hey guys is there a way to control transform.pos of a CM camera? by default it ignores all .position changes i attempt to make

when the player falls off the edge f the map they need to spwn back up the top. however right now the player spawns back up there but the CM cam lerps towards the player position and goes through the bottom of the map and takes a while to get there. i need it to instantly be at the newly spawned position

[fast orchid]

The position is directly controlled by the active virtual camera. You can either try altering the properties of the virtual camera so that it removes any dampening on it when returning to the spawn.

Or the better option would be to use a second spawning camera which points at the spawn point. Then simply switch to this camera. You can change the blending between two specific camera on the Brain, including making it instant.

[sweet shadow]

thanks osteel i will look into these options thanks mate!

[frigid sand]

Hey all. I'm trying to figure out some cinemachine camera stuff. Specifically, I want to have a camera that has dead zone width and height setting but I also would like it to rotate with the player. I don't think this functionality is possible with the current cinemachine but I was in Transpose Mode which is what I need to handle rotation but the dead height and width dont work in that setting. They do work though in transpose frame and I think orbital but orbital doesn't let the camera move without input from my understanding. What should I look into?

im making a 2.5d platformer where the character moves along a track and sometimes the track will lead to the angle changing. I need to rotate the camera in those cases based on what direction the character faces and this works in transpose perfectly. What I want to have tho is some dead zone dimensions to keep the camera following the player to chill a little bit with its movement if the player didn't jump too high/go too far yet.

[sweet shadow]

@frigid sand do you ever have to worry about camera collision? if not then it might be worth coding it yourself

[warm verge]

can I get help related to camera here? even though it's not cinemachine

[wintry canopy]

@warm verge Should always lead with actual question anyway. It might fit somewhere else as well.

Then you'll get an answer and a direction for a future.

[warm verge]

just uploaded the pictures, and yes sorry.. I should have sent my problem

as you can see, when I look down I can see the hands but when I look up I can't

[wintry canopy]

Are you scaling non uniformly any of the parents?

[warm verge]

in blender I made a 3d model and imported it , so the guns are attached to the hand bone... which is parented to another bone that's parented to the camera-holder object , which is also a parent of the camera itself

[warm verge]

no

[wintry canopy]

Should recheck. This is a usual problem when rotating a child inside non uniformal container, then child changes shape on rotation.

[warm verge]

the thing is, I tried everything, even changing the location of the camera during the game run...

[wintry canopy]

Are you rotating everything as one piece?

Look at it through scene from the side

with selected objects to see gizmos

[warm verge]

I did

can I show you my hirarchy?

[wintry canopy]

So you should see the problem in scene view when it happens

[warm verge]

I think the problem is the objects being very close to the camera, so I put the clipping plane to 0 and it still clipped through them

[wintry canopy]

Are they rotating with the camera?

If they are it should not be a problem

(on the same pivot point)

[warm verge]

they are rotating, but after a degree, they disappear

[wintry canopy]

Should make a clip of it from the scene with all gizmos displayed.

From the side

[warm verge]

ok just a sec

[wintry canopy]

That's not a video clip

[warm verge]

i dont have a way to take a video clip

[wintry canopy]

Do a frame when it disappears from main camera.

ShareX is very easy use to make part of the screen videos.

[warm verge]

getting sharex

hello,i need to create a chase camera for my racing game

which camera will be good ?

https://youtu.be/xQ2YiaUcKm8

something similar to this

@wintry canopy that's the video

[wintry canopy]

Have you tried adjusting near clipping plane on camera?

[warm verge]

yes.. 0.01

[wintry canopy]

@warm verge That would be a good use case for the Cinemachine. Some learning curve involved though. Resources are pinned in this channel.

[wintry canopy]

It could be it gets culled by its origin (due to some floating point issue deciding it is too close at that rotation) . Should post this video in #archived-hdrp . Maybe someone has an idea why it happens.
I would start experimenting with putting it further from the camera. And maybe editing original asset to have origin point a bit further forward.

[warm verge]

I tried putting the camera futher away... but it didn't work till I made the camera REALLY fat from the object

[limpid ice]

hi can anyone tell me the settings for cinemachine for car

[storm leaf]

Cinemachine handles cutscenes correct? Like I don't have to code much in?

[fast orchid]

Cinemachine handles cameras.

Whether or not you use it for a cutscene is up to you.

[royal tartan]

Look into Timeline for coordinating cutscenes

[glossy kiln]

Anyone know how to get objects back in front of canvas

I created a Virtual Camera 2D and all the non canvas elements went behind the canvas

[tacit quest]

I am using https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/Standard-Assets-Characters
in my project. Which has a dependency on Cinemachine, which I installed. However, since I am using the new Input System, I am getting an error about incorrect input source.
I found out that the new version has a component Cinemachine Input Provider.
But I don't know where to put it to override the input source. Can someone help?

[outer scarab]

hi, i have a problem, the camera in my scene is following the player through a script but whenever the player is on the high ground the camera also moves on the Y axis and cuts of the lower ground, i basically want to freeze the camera on Y axis, i tried rigbody 2D and freeze the Y axis but sadly no luck, is there any other way to do it?

[plucky wren]

@outer scarab Grab the position of the followed target into a variable and change the y

Rigidbody constraints only constrain physics behaviour

Oh I guess you are using Cinemachine for the follow camera. Not sure how to lock the Y off the top of my head, but it might have a setting for it somewhere

If all else fails, you can always extend CM with your own components and processing

[outer scarab]

no am not using cinemachine

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

public class camera : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Transform player;
    public Vector3 offset;
    [Range(1, 10)]
    public float smoothFactor;

    void FixedUpdate()
    {
        follow();
    }

    void follow()
    {
        
        Vector3 PlayerPosition = player.position + offset;
        Vector3 smoothness = Vector3.Lerp(transform.position, PlayerPosition, smoothFactor * Time.deltaTime );
        transform.position = PlayerPosition;
    }
}

this is what i've been using to follow the player

with camera

[plucky wren]

In that case you can just set the PlayerPosition.y to the height you want

[outer scarab]

mhh

lmme try

yh its not working

this is what is don't want

@plucky wren

[plucky wren]

You are modifying the target Y after changing the position

[outer scarab]

?

should it be one line above?

ahh

it worked

thx boss

[storm leaf]

@royal tartan thank you I will look at that

[tepid marlin]

so.. trying to set up a basic 3rd person follow cam for now.. have it set up as such with a transform set to neck height.
the camera is framed up perfect in scene and game view, yet upon pressing play it doesnt actually follow.

am i totally missing something? as far as ive seen that should set at least set up a pretty primitive follow cam for now.

[royal tartan]

Do you have a cinemachine brain?

What are your 3rd person follow settings

[bleak bobcat]

Hey all, here's my issue:
Im building a 2D game with a separate Perspective camera for the background and 2 Orth cameras, Main and UI.

1. If include the UI with the Main camera, the UI takes all the post processing which I dont want, hence why I put it on another cam.
2. If I set them up on 3 cameras and camera stack, it works great but I cant get pixel perfect anymore.

I guess my question is, is there a way to have pixel perfect running on the Orth cams whilst displaying multiple cameras? Or simply put can I display multiple cameras without camera stacking?

[opal wasp]

Hi I'm not sure if this is a cinemachine issue or not, but any character I add to the timeline starts to jitter once ANY animation is applied. It happens with mixamo clips as well as just keying bones. I've read a lot of documentation and this issue persists no matter what I do. I'm using Unity 2020.3.3f. This did not happen at all with the exact same workflow using Unity 2018.4.3f. Camera is late update, is there some way to change the characters update method? I don't do coding, just use cinemachine for short clips exported to video

[rich drum]

hi, im very new to game development. im currently using cinemachine 2D for my camera. I came across an issue where the camera confiner (polygon 2D collider) got mixed up with my ground hitbox. I was wondering if anyone could help me?

heres some screenshots if this helps

the collider goes all the way around the frame

[warm verge]

hey im trying to get "zoom" working

i tried it dumb and thought it would work by setting radius only but yea forgot about height lol

so how would i do always same distance

private void SetCamRadius(float radius)
    {
        for (int i = 0; i < cfreelook.m_Orbits.Length; i++)
        {
            cfreelook.m_Orbits[i].m_Radius = radius;
        }
    }

    private void OnMouseScroll(Vector2 delta)
    {
        cameraDistance += -delta.normalized.y * zoomSpeed * Time.deltaTime;
        SetCamRadius(cameraDistance);
    }```

thats kinda my code rn

i want cam to always be same distance when you move up and down but also be able to zoom in and out

[spiral nexus]

this might help https://forum.unity.com/threads/cinemachine-how-to-add-zoom-control-to-freelook-camera.505541/#post-3416945

[warm verge]

thx

yes it works perfect i think, if i put spline curve up to 1, looks like same distance

[warm verge]

hmm

so using this

        Vector3 moveVec = Camera.main.transform.forward * currentMoveDir.x + Camera.main.transform.right * currentMoveDir.z;
        moveVec.y = 0;
        transform.position = transform.position + moveVec.normalized * moveSpeed * Time.deltaTime;

it seems i can move forward backward just fine but sideways the cube/player rotates around the camera lol

when i move sideways (and also forward/backward) i want the camera to stay at the same position/rotation relative to the player

[pulsar mason]

When i enable the Aim component, it snaps the LookAt
Is there a way to let it ease to the LookAt instead?

[uncut pilot]

I am having some problem with 1st person to third person camera transition. Using cinemachine free look cam for 3rd person view and cinemachine virtual cam for 1st person. When in third person I am also rotating the first person cam (virtual cam) so that it always looks at where the third person cam is looking at. When switching to first person (virtual cam) I am not able to control the third person cam (free look cam) where to look at. The free look should be looking at where the fps cam is looking at. How can I achieve this ?

[rich drum]

Im not entirely sure but, you could check out the unity forum. I've found a lot of answers for issues on there

[honest halo]

can someone help me make the camera or screen view bigger?

I want to have a bigger screen view when playing

[rich drum]

is the camera orthographic or perspective

if its orthographic, then just change the size under camera. or you could mess around with the CM vcam1 settings

[timber verge]

When using Cinemachine with the new Input system is there a way to stop Cinemachine Input Provider from taking input such as when a menu is open?

[indigo oxide]

Deactivating the Input Provider will do the trick

[royal tartan]

Disable the action map and/or individual InputAction that is mapped to the InputProvider

(if disabling the input provider doesn't work)

[worthy flume]

hey, the same problem i had in #💻┃code-beginner
the camera is very focused on the ground, and no matter what i change in the settings it doesnt move at all

part 2 of the camera settings

and then the last little bit

sorry for spam i wasnt sure what part i had to send

this is the problem btw

oh yeah i should post my main cam too

[worthy flume]

i fixed it!!! there was a camera inside of the floor that mustve been there from blender

[tropic cradle]

Hi i am using a free look cinemashine camera but in game view I am getting a no cameras rendering error. What should I do?

[royal tartan]

You need to have a real camera too

with a Cinemachine Brain on it

Cinemachine cameras are all "virtual" cameras

the virtual cameras take control of the real camera at runtime

[tropic cradle]

I figured it out after a while by taking a look at some test scenes from the package

But thanks for answering

[ionic oriole]

I can get a Cinemachine virtual camera to orbit a moving object just fine, but how do I make a fixed-position camera which can be aimed using the mouse?
To clarify, I'm not looking to attach this to the head of a particular character - just a camera with a fixed position but which can look around.
I can't figure out what to even call this in order to be able to look it up - not getting anything useful after filtering out all the requests for orbit and third-person cameras.

[royal tartan]

it's not much different

just attach it to a non-moving object

Pretty much any first person controller script but without the WASD movement part

[ionic oriole]

Oh, that makes sense. Thanks!

[wintry canopy]

There are some resources pinned in this channel.

Here top right, red dot

[tawny harbor]

Anyone have a solution for keeping the camera withint boundaries?
In this case I have no player object.

[wintry canopy]

That is one of the features of #🎥┃cinemachine

[tawny harbor]

And hpw would I use it?

Ik how to use cinema for basic stuff. Just not that specific feature.

[wintry canopy]

There are tutorials pinned in this channel.

[tawny harbor]

I noticed. So can you reference one related to that solution?

I already watched one of them from unity, but it was for 3d games.
Am I suppose to go through all of them to find 1 thing that most experience developers should know a little bit a about.

Are you a bot?

[wintry canopy]

@tawny harbor I rarely use Cinemachine, prefer using my own solutions.
Instead of sitting here waiting to be served make some effort to search the tutorials. There are tools for that.

[tawny harbor]

@wintry canopy im sorry. I'm looking for any solution. Should of added that context.

I onky came to this channel cause they don't have a camera channel as far as I've seen, so this was the closest to the topic I thought.

And yes that shit I've made effort.
Been 7 hours and no sleep

Whats the point of asking for help than.

[wintry canopy]

This is not the place to feed you the solutions. Make some effort, show your code where you fail. You'll get guidance. In case of cinemachine you just need to make an effort to learn it.
And camera is just a game object, what you are asking is solved with just scripting the behavior.

[tawny harbor]

If you have zero interest in helping. Why even respond.

Is as simple as referencing a solution. You don't know one than is fine.

[wintry canopy]

@tawny harbor Because you keep spamming the channel with irrelevant bickering instead of showing what you did.

And I suggest you stop doing that.

[tawny harbor]

I haven't spam at all. Every question had a purpose

Anyways. You don't know and that's fine.

[fast orchid]

What have you even Googled? This was literally the first video for 'unity cinemachine 2d bounds"

https://youtu.be/izumXk-xoEM

Which given that short video, now gives you the thing to search for in the docs if you need more information.

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

All this in less time it took to read through the above conversation.

[tranquil berry]

https://blog.unity.com/technology/cinemachine-for-2d-tips-and-tricks

Confining a Camera

[tawny harbor]

To be clear i did watch those videos.(the pinned one's) It just didn't apply to my specific case. That or I was too stupid to understand it.
Regardless, I did eventually find a solution after going to the documentation, so thanks for the references.

[fiery spire]

I'm new to cinemachine, first time using it and was following brackey's video on how to to 3rd person stuff, so I was adjusting the camera regularly but as shown in the video sometimes its so buggy and I'm not sure why

I've also added the cinemachine collider extension so I don't look through walls/objects but I've set the ground to another layer to test it, it's not what's causing the camera to behave this way. Any way I can fix this?

[ocean plover]

help, my cinemachine can't see yellow dot in middle, i dunno what happen except when play

[tepid bloom]

does any1 know why my cinemachine keeeps bugging whenever i walk backwards
it like hitches

[slim mesa]

can we use cinemachine camera with timeline

[royal tartan]

of course, why not?

Look there's even a special article about it https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.cinemachine@2.7/manual/CinemachineTimeline.html?q=timeline

[tranquil berry]

Please do not cross-post.

[slim mesa]

ok sorry

[slim mesa]

thanks

[royal tartan]

Can a virtual camera be convinced to zoom/dolly its way in or out in order to capture the full bounds of a GameObject and all of its renderers (its own and its children)

[lilac crane]

does cinemachine mess with post processing?

[royal tartan]

cinemachine largely just positions your camera

so no

[lilac crane]

ok thanks

[chilly leaf]

What's the difference between the pixel perfect camera (experimental) you put on the main camera vs the cinemachine pixel perfect extension?

I'm using URP

[royal tartan]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@7.1/manual/pixel-cinemachine.html

[magic otter]

not super familiar with cinemachine

im making a top down game, which camera type would go best with this?

Or if someone has an explanation of each camera type, I'd love to see it

Or documentation on it. Can't find it, tried googling

I might just use a freelook camera with constraints pretty high

Cause I do want little movement ability with the camera

so nvm i guess

[wintry canopy]

Documentation with tutorials are pinned in this channel.

[royal tartan]

for a top down camera I recommend a normal virtual camera

freelook is basically designed for third person shooters

I'm doing a top down game as well and my current setup is a normal virtual camera with a CharacterController attached

[magic otter]

I'm aware, but it doesn't answer my issue.

[magic otter]

well, I want control, and i want to be able to also look in a "three dimensional" way. kinda like runescape or kenshi (if you've ever played those games)

[royal tartan]

If the camera will be following a character at a fixed angle from top down - a normal Virtual camera with the appropriate body/look settings would be appropriate

if you want free camera rotation and pitch angles etc.. like a third person shooter, then use a FreeLook

[magic otter]

yeah, I guess my original statement isn't really sound. the fixed top down camera isn't what i'm going for. more control would be needed

thanks!

[fallow yacht]

CInemachine is a highly capable system. Probably the single most capable system in Unity, and crosses over many aspects of both how Unity works, and how cameras work, and how your game desires to be. It requires a lot of experimentation to understand what Cinemachine is, and how best to use it, which will also reveal its thought and design processes and paradigms, and many creative capabilities. Put aside at least one week to do this research by building interactive demos for yourself to theorize how it works and then test and discover. The samples in the package are a good starting point, but won't provide much more than that.

Unfortunately nobody has ever gotten around to writing a good introduction to Cinemachine, which really does need such an intro because it's so capable, so thoroughly designed, and so creatively empowering. Unity somehow sucks at getting documentation teams together. TextMeshPro is a similarly undocumented zone, as is Physics, the Particle System (Shuriken) and the nightmare that is Mecanim.

[glossy kiln]

When I make a 2D cinemachine camera and make it follow my Main Camera all the gameobjects that are not on a canvas are invisible

I don't know if they are behind the camera or if they are behind the canvas but they just don't show up

[royal tartan]

the cinemachine camera shouldn't be following the main camera

the main camera gets teleported to the position of the active cinemachine virtual camera

[royal tartan]

and yes this is probably the issue - check the positions of the objects

[glossy kiln]

Thank you for telling me this it helped me fix another issue

[glossy kiln]

I will check the positioning in a bit

[glossy kiln]

works now

thanks for the help

[jovial wigeon]

hi, I am new to cinemachine and tried to add the cinemachineBrain on my camera, but as soon as it's added, my FOV went from 60 to 40 and I can't change it anymore it's locked
What did I missed please?

[tepid bloom]

does anyone know how i could add a zoom in feature when i press a certain button

for example when i block the camera zooms into the player

when i let go it goes back to normal

in cinemachine

[jovial wigeon]

nvm it was just controller by the cinemachinevirtualcamera

[royal tartan]

Typically you would do this by having two different virtual cameras. One normal view and one "zoomed in" view

and you just transition between the two vCams when necessary

[uncut pilot]

I am trying to create a camera switching mechanic, from FPS to TPS and vice versa. How would I go doing that? Any help would be much appreciated.

[royal tartan]

The message I posted right above your question is relevant for this as well

one TPS virtual camera, one FPS virtual camera. Switch between the two when needed

[uncut pilot]

Ok thanks

[errant shard]

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

Cinemachine has its own documentation that pretty much covers everything you can do with it

[neat river]

What exactly is cinemachine?

[fast orchid]

It's a built in plugin that gives you many camera features.

[neat river]

what for example?

[fast orchid]

Dolly's. Follow cams. Look at. Easing and offsets.

Watch a video on it's capabilities if you need to.

[neat river]

Seems very useful

I should try it