[2D] How to follow a car and having the road always visible ?

I thought I was understanding this question, until I came to this sentence:

and now I'm confused. Did you mean still following in x but not y?
If you could scribble a few pictures of what you're talking about it would help a lot.

 

You could try this:

Let your car consist of 2 game objects: the car itself, and an invisible object that sticks to the road, always underneath the car. When the car jumps, the invisible object does not.

In the framing transposer, target the invisible object. No dead zone. Add a little script to the vcam which adjusts the framing size according to the car's speed. That should take care of giving you enough room to see the car when it jumps.

To set the framing size on the FramingTransposer from your script, do something like this:

Code (CSharp):

1. CinemachineVirtualCamera vcam = ...;
2. vcam.GetCinemachineComponent<CinemachineFramingTransposer>().m_GroupFramingSize = bla;

 

It's very easy to make your own custom extensions for Cinemachine. You could even share them here

 

Sorry, I misled you earlier. The group framing size only works if your vcam Follow target is a group. In your case you would just need to adjust the vcam's ortho size, like this:

Code (CSharp):

1. vcam.m_Lens.OrthographicSize = bla;

 

Yes you could try that