Camera Movement (Camera Jitter)

[shell ocean]

Camera Movement (Camera Jitter)

Problem: Currently the entire scene jitters in unison in the game window.
This occurs when player is moving. I believe that the camera is not in sync with player movement updates.

Previous Iterations:
In previous versions the camera/scene movement was smooth, but the player but text in scene would bounce.

At first I thought the UI elements were having update issues with math between screen/world space. However, it was simply player movement jitter.

I have been working with Chat GPT to try to trouble shoot, and have fixed the player movement jitter. Unfortunately I can't seem to get the camera to sync with player without reintroducing previous problems. At this point Chat GPT is just repeating the same set of solutions and I am going in circles.

Here are both Current scripts:
Camera Follow: https://hatebin.com/audbfhwsbf
Click to Move (navmesh): https://hatebin.com/cpbfpedtww

Current Editor Settings:

Player has:

• Box Collider ( To prevent player from moving through spawn objects not baked into navmesh)

• Nav Mesh Agent
  Base Offset 0.5 / Steering Speed 15 / Angular Speed 520 / Acc 30
  Obstacle Avoidance Radius 0.5 / Quality: Low /

• Rigidbody
  Mass 1 / Drag 0 / Angular D .05 / Interpolate: None / Collision: Discrete / Constraints: Freeze Position: Y / Freeze Rotation XYZ

• Character Controller
  Slope Limit: 45 / Step Offset: 0.3 / Skin Width: 0.08 / MinMoveDistance: 0.001
  Radius: 0.5 / Height: 2

TroubleShooting:

• Add/Removed RigidBody

• Changes Navmesh Agent Settings

• Tried Interpolate for player

• Turned Gravity to False

• Tried Adjusting Collision Detection

• Tried modifying script for movement update sync between player camera.

• Tried banging head against wall, also ineffective. lol

Finally I want to stress, the player is moving super smooth, and so are the other elements, I really think the trouble is with synching of player/camera movement.

Thank you in Advance.

Also please let me know if this is better for general or advanced category, thank you!

[pastel arch]

you cannot have a Rigidbody and CharacterController component on the same GameObject. they use different types of movement and will conflict with each other . . .

also, it's much easier to use Cinemachine for camera movement. easy to setup and there are a bunch of tutorials for it . . .

[shell ocean]

I removed both, and didn't see an improvement with camera jitter.

[shell ocean]

@pastel arch so I looked into Cinemachine and I honestly believe it could create dozens of new problems for me, vs. just allowing me to fix one pretty narrow issue I am currently dealing with.

Plus I could still have the jitter in the end.

[pastel arch]

the camera is separate from the player movement. you need to decide if you're moving the player using Rigidbody physics or with the CharacterController. do that first and make sure the movement is correct; then focus on the camera . . .

[shell ocean]

The CharacterController has been removed, it was a left over, irrelevant component from testing something else with the player object.

player movement Jitters were corrected this morning.

[pastel arch]

you'll probably have to look at (older) tutorials for camera movement. most people use cinemachine now . . .

how are you moving the player? with AddForce, by velocity, or kinematic rigidbody and MovePosition?

you have to place the camera movement code in the correct Update method and make sure the rigidbody settings are correct to avoid jitter . . .