#Spline Camera Paths
wary depot
Another thing I did was find a way to make multiple spline paths and have camera transition to those new areas.
lethal delta
the camera follows a spline path, for like ciematic events during gameplay?
wary depot
cinematic like a cutscene?
lethal delta
yeah, your work seems cool, just trying to think of use cases
wary depot
its more of how the camera just tracks the player whenever they move within the spline path.
lethal delta
ohhhh, that makes more sense
wary depot
I tried to make something like this because my game is going to have curving paths I decided
lethal delta
yeah yeah i understand now, its different from the games i work on so wasnt thinking of it at first.
glad to see its working. CineMachine just makes it easier thencoding yourself, while removing a bit of functionality.
so its cool to see its still being implemented manually
what happens if you walk backwards while in the curved path?
wary depot
its in the video but the camera still just moves backwards
lethal delta
well it really depends on the scenery, some people like to stop to smell the roses, or something to check something they saw in the corner of their eye
wary depot
since there is going to be platforming, I want to make sure the player doesn't have to touch the right analog stick at all. But I guess I can find a way to add a button which toggles camera to face behind the player or the other way.
I want there to be a completely automatic camera experience since they'll be moving forward even with some branching paths. That being said, I should set the camera to look behind the player just by the click of a button if they want to look back.
lethal delta
ah, i dont know your game so that makes more sense, it really depends on the goals you have. wish you luck with the prototype, always excited to see game design
wary depot
thnx. here is my main game project. It just has a straight forward camera lock which rotates according to what the trigger box tells it to.
lethal delta
feels real "Resident evil" camera movement honestly
though i dont play many platforming games like sonic, so this is the closest game i have
wary depot
This is a better example since this game completely has took away manual camera control. The beginning section does have that "linear one box collision to rotate the camera at one direction thing". At 1:57 in the video, that spline thing I made would come in handy. https://youtu.be/7nwcwMa1qsU?si=SFQAXHeywp2gAj_d
been trying to figure out how the game does all that too.
lethal delta
it seems for certain objects, it makes the camera move based on actions the player does, like OnCollisionExit() with the ropes,
and then for some paths, it just seems that it does 2 spline paths, 1 for cam and 1 for player
wary depot
thats definitely what I thought, although they probably have alot more things going on than that in addition to those paths.
lethal delta
you kinda need to make a bunch of methods for moving the camera in different ways for this type of game ill be honest
but once thats done, the biggest hurdle is level design at that poinr
i cant see many hard things to do with the cam, besides (watch the player) (move this direction), and (follow this path)
wary depot
its also very easy to make the camera spike to new paths making transitions abrupt which is why I had the camera be its own parent object to follow the snapped positions at a lerp.