2D fighting game camera

Hey there,

I'm creating a fighting game and I want to know if it is possible to create camera by Cinemachine. like Skullgirls and other fighting games. something common between fighting games.

 

@Gregoryl Hmmm, I don't find anything useful. can you provide any links ?

 

I've seen this video but it's not really good enough for my need. I hope you understood what I want. It is hard to explain clearly but let me explain a little about it.
First if all, best reference for it is Skullgirls camera system. camera looks at both characters in the stage and camera move according to them. There are zoom in and zoom out but they have limitation.

 

Thanks @Gregoryl for the hint. I've changed some of variables value in Framing Transposer. I just figured it out I should use FixedUpdate Update Method in Cinemachine Brain for decreasing lag on the camera because I use physics for moving characters in the game. But now, those dead zone or damping have no effects. Why ?

 

I have 2.2.7 version and I guess it is up to date.
Yup, I've changed TargetGroup to FixedUpdate and Brain to SmartUpdate but I have other problems. Sometimes camera has weird behavior. Also by SmartUpdate when I go to end of the screen and zooming out is started it has some delay to go to target zoom although the damping is zero.
I want no damping when zooming in or zooming out is started and when camera is at its min ortho size little movement of character doesn't effect camera. By changing variable I don't find the correct result.

 

That weird behavior is when camera starts zooming out then back to zoom in the camera position is not same as the beginning.

 

If it is possible first answer this question then I try to make something and pot it here.
My 2D characters rotate to 0 or 180 according to direction of movement and if camera target object for each of them in target group is not at the center of them by changing movement direction I have camera jump so I have to put camera target at the center of them. So when characters try to get distance from each other camera zoom out starts from center of the characters. Do you have any solution for it ?

 

@Gregoryl Do you have any advice ?

 

@Gregoryl Okay, it is a sample project.

Right player moves with ASDW and jump with space and left player moves with arrow keys and jump with right ctrl.

As you see players rotate to their movement direction (By changing their Y rotation to 0 or 180).
If I put camera target in sides not center of them when they change their movement direction, camera has a little change like zoom in/out or move. So I put camera target in their center but when center of them reach end of the screen, camera zooms out which it doesn't look good because camera should zoom out when whole the sprite is at the end of the screen.

I want camera zoom out when first pixel of the sprite is out of the screen not half of it and when player changes its movement direction, camera won't have any sudden zoom in/out or move.

 

@Gregoryl Thank you very much.

Now I have some problems. Look at this sample which is updated by those radius values. As you see when both players move away from each other (the camera is zoomed out) then they get close (the camera is zoomed in) but (1) camera is a little upper than start of the game and (2) sometimes framing changed (Just move them together and you can see this problem)

Also when the game is started (3) there is a little jump in the camera and it is moved to the correct position.

Another problem is when players move to opposite side of the screen (4) framing doesn't work correctly.

How should I solve these problems ?

PS: I posted these gifs for not wasting your time.
First problem: https://gyazo.com/ef204cff4d4c213ff9a0578772e1fade
Second problem: https://imgur.com/a/Ux6BuZJ
Third problem: https://gyazo.com/945884ef9260b81ad9b93b8aa1329ea4
Forth problem: https://gyazo.com/d7b29029b84598b8653d293eff670003

 

@Gregoryl Did you see my post ?

 

@Gregoryl Awesome. Many thanks.

 

Hey there,
I want group framing in both horizontal and vertical axis. I changed group framing mode to Horizontal and Vertical mode but the problem is that, radius in Cinemachine Target Group changes both horizontal and vertical, Is there anything which I can change the radius for horizontal and vertical axis separately ?

 

Gregoryl Do you know how can I add it by scripting ? I want vertical zoom back too but it doesn't work correctly with that radius.

 

Gregoryl Unfortunately It doesn't help. By this approach I can determine width and height of target group as I requested but because group framing happens according to size of camera and Minimum Ortho Size change both width and height I can't have vertical group framing as I want.
The thing which I want is when character jump and the other one is not visible, group framing happens and makes both characters to be visible.

 

@Gregoryl I have another question.

How can I disable camera movement on Y axis but movement and framing is active on X axis ?

 

Anyone ?

 

@Gregoryl I don't want any camera follow in y axis. If you remembered I use target group and group framing.

 

Yup. How should I use cofiner for locking camera Y axis ?

 

Thank you very much.

Just there is a problem when camera is extended in X axes then camera goes out of boundary and there is a jump.

https://gyazo.com/28b427523aa6ca9c6fd1a4e9052deb2a