Camera Path Animator 3.0 - Animate in Unity with Ease

Thanks, I will take a look.
Guess i was being lazy and looking for a simple answer.

Cheers.

 

Thanks for building this asset, jasperstocker! I've integrated it with the Cinema Director plugin and can now scrub along camera paths while creating my cutscenes. Super helpful!!!

 

I'm also using it to animate movement for all the other objects/characters in my cutscenes. Is this a terrible idea performance-wise on mobile or am I good, since the paths are not made at runtime. Generally speaking, of course.

 

It should be fine to animate any gameobject.

 

I really like your asset and would love to purchase it, however, I have one question about it's usage. I've been looking at the documentation and it seems fairly straight forward but as usual what I'm trying to do isn't straight forward.

I have a 3D story based game in which the user experiences the character walking a path and at some point the game prompts the user to make a decision to go right or left. I'm really interested in your tool because it seems easy to setup this kind of camera movement along a path, however, how can I handle the single path turning into two possible paths?

I saw in the documentation that I could generate an XML of the path then overwrite the current path with the generated XML. So I figured I could generate two possible XML strings and when the user makes a selection then load the corresponding XML. Will this provide the solution I need or is there a better way of doing this with your tool? Does loading the XML cause any camera jump, or reset , etc.?

 

You can have more than one path in a scene.
How about you have all your paths laid out with play at start unticked and use a script to start the ones you want based on that user choice.

 

Sounds good to me, thank you very much.

 

I've been having a lot of trouble with the 'Speed' portion of this plugin. The other parts are working well, which is awesome! But the speed ramp up and slow down in random spots where there are no points. There's a spot on my path that has no points nearby, but the path slows down almost to a stop, then continues back to normal speed. I un-enabled the speed node and the camera didn't slow down at that weird spot, so it definitely looks like something about speed is affecting it, but there's just nothing there..

 

Eek - that sounds weird. Could you email me your path as XML so I can take a look at this issue.
Thanks

 

ditto speed issues, definitely something wonky is happening. Setting a speed point and value doesn't necessarily mean your tracked object will have that speed as it passes thru.

 

Hi Jasper
Trying to do something I don't recall seeing in the documentation.

I have 2 paths, Path1 and Path 2.


When Path 1 is partially finished, I want it to pause and to send an event that will trigger the start of Path 2.

When Path 2 is complete, I want it to send an event that will cause Path 1 to resume.

Possible?

 

One additional question
Is it possible to change the Orientation of a gameObject on a animation path via code at runtime?

I am simply trying to rotate a game object that is paused on a animation path and don't want to have to rotate the entire path.

 

How can I export as an XML file?

 

Head to options > export to xml

 

Hi jasper
I know how to use basic events to Call another gameObject, but how do you Start another path from an existing path?

Path A plays on Start and has an Event at 90% that should start path B

Path B has 'Play on Start' toggled off.

I've tried simply targeting Path B and the 'Start' method from the Path A event but that doesn't work.

 

Major issue with version camerpath 3.43c. I just update a major project with 3 combined paths from version 3.35 under unity 5.2f1 mac.

The paths speed settings are intact after the update but the speed has slowed down by a factor of 10 or more in most places. I other places it too fast ??

 

Looking into this - should have a fix shortly.

 

Any news on this? We have this problem too. Seems to happen when you have a camera with heterogeneous distances between path points. We need this fix urgent, would be cool if you come up with a solution by tomorrow, I would really appreciate it!

 

Should be fixed as of version 3.43e on the store.

 

No it is not fixed for me. I was already using 3.43e. Check this path: even before reaching path point 0 the path already hit the 3 speed points although two of them should be hit later on.

Edit: I meant path point 1

 

Okay - I'll take a look.

 

I am sorry to bother you, but did you had a look at the path?

Edit: Take your time, for now I switched to an old version (3.32).

 

same problem here with speed interpolation...any news??
where find the 3.32?
thx!

 

There should be a new version in the store shortly to fix this issue.

 

Unbelievable. After pressing Camera Multi View.. something, whole project is broken now. I have hundret thousands draw calls, 80M tris and other weird stuff. Unity is slow and almost unusable now. In profiler it looks like some New Game Objects (cameras) are created but ther are hidden, so no way to get rid of them....

 

I check it out but any further information would be appreciated. Did you receive any errors? What version of Unity are you using?

 

Newest with patch 5.2.1p3.
I fixed it by removing whole Camera Animator directory. But all camera paths are corrupted. Thanks to backup I got it back.
There were some errors concerning CameraPathDualControl script and RenderPreviews() function.

 

I tried to update to 5.2 also but my app was completely broken. So reverted back, and it is working again but now a receive this error relating to your product.

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
CameraPathController.Start () (at Assets/Scripts/CameraPathController.cs:30)

I have updated to 3.44 also.

any help here would be great. Thanks!

 

Hi there, I was wondering how you integrated the former into the latter. I've been working with both, and as you say, being able to control the path from within Cinema Director would be awesome! Would appreciate any information you could share

 

HI,
I have a problem for camera path animator after updating to version 3.44.
The object can't show correctly when I set the orientation mode to "target" and the object's position is not set to x:0, y:0, Z:0, but it show correctly in older version. Any solution?
Thanks.

 

I just discovered Camera Path Animator and I want to ask if it`s possible to implement a feature I need, or maybe it`s already possible, by using your asset, to do what I need. What exactly I want to do? I need to move the camera, or an object in the scene along a spline/bezier curve/path by using finger gestures. The camera/object needs to move up and down along the spline, not based on a time line, but moving according to finger swipe (or click&mouse move on desktop) from left to right or the other way around, from right to left depending on the swipe direction. I`m not sure if this can already be done inside Camera Path Animator, or it can be implemented, or it needs integration with another Unity asset, like InControl, Easy Touch or Finger Gestures. I have to mention that my main target platform is windows desktop, but I would love to have this working for any kind of touch screens too, mobile or not.
Also, I have to mention that I have no scripting knowledge, and a no scripting solution will be great, or using Playmaker actions will do too.
Thank you in advance for your time and answer.

 

Why are the icons in a resources folder now and loaded with Resources.Load? That means the icons are included in builds, where they're not needed.

 

I started to use this asset after a while and it was nice to see that the tool has developed quite a lot over the time!

One suggestion for the future development in case that other users would see this beneficial. It would be nice to be able to add new Camera Path Nodes in the end of the current path by moving scene view to correct position/view and clicking Add Node. I believe this would speed up the Path Node placement quite a lot.

 

Is there easy way to rotate the Camera Path Object?

Now when creating a new path the alignment may not be correct and it is hard to rotate the overall orientation of the path. For example, if I wanted to rotate the path 90 or 180 degrees it is not possible rotate the Camera Path Object with Object transform values.

 

Hello, is that asset still supported? Does it work with Unity 5.3?

 

Of course - the last version release is not even two months old for a 5 year old asset. It supports all Unity versions from 4.6.x onwards.

 

I have a game 'on rails' with checkpoints that get cleared as the player progresses. If they die, I want to have the camera path play in reverse at a high speed, until the checkpoint is reached, and then resume playing forward afterwards. The spawn points for the player are different than the path of the camera. So I want my level designer to be able to position the spawn boxes, and not also have to add Events along the camera path. I have everything setup and working so far except for one detail: knowing when to stop playing in reverse and start playing forward once again. I know the percentage along the path that the checkpoint is. Can I add an event at a percentage during runtime? Or do you have any other suggestions?

I love this toolset and use it in all of my projects. Thanks for making it jasperstocker!

 

You could track the percentage on update in the Animator component.
Or as you thought I would think you could access the Event class list in Camera Path and add an event at that point.
Glad it's helped you out!

 

I started with checking the percentage on Update originally, but because I'm stopping the current path, assigning a new one, calling Reverse() and then Play(), something in that combination is causing it to return percentage = 0 every update (even though the camera is clearly moving along the path).

I tried adding an Event to the event list, but AddEvent takes a CameraPathControlPoint parameter, rather than a percentage. Is there a way to add an event at a percentage?

 

Hmm - that percentage thing looks like a bug. I'll check it out.
With the event there is an override for accepting the Event and a fixed percentage float.
path.eventList.AddPoint(myEvent, atFixedPercent);
Or does this not work for you?

 

The code you wrote would work perfect for me, but the method signature doesn't support that:
public void AddPoint(CameraPathPoint newPoint, float fixPercent)

Ideally, I'm looking for this method (which I'm pretty sure doesn't exist):
public void AddEvent(CameraPathEvent newEvent, float fixPercent)

 

You could use AddPoint but just remember that you need to create the Event yourself by adding it as a component.
I'll be looking into adding a proper AddEvent(float percent) in the next release...

 

We've been having an interesting issue... We have about 50 camera paths in the scene. (I think overall, its a great tool!) When using the editor, after we stop playing, it hangs for about a minute before we can do anything in the editor. If we delete these 50 paths, then the scene starts and stops instantly...

Note: Only 1 path is ever played at a time.. Even if we exit without playing ANY of the paths, it still hangs for a minute before giving us control back.

 

Hmm - yeah - sounds like they're all doing something kooky at that point. I'll check it out. Thanks for reporting.

 

Also, rebuilding scripts takes significantly longer with the camera paths in the scene. Like a looot longer. If we delete most of them from the scene, it builds quickly.

 

Ended up making all camera paths into prefabs, and instantiating them before they are used.

(And then deleting them after they are done)

 

Hi All, I'm pretty new to this asset, which is great by the way! Just wondering if there is a way to simulate walking with the camera path, e.g. make it bob as you walk?

 

I would suggest using an external script - Camera Path can animate a parent gameobject and the bob script modify the child where the camera sits upon.

 

That's a fantastic idea - thanks Jasper!

 

Hi, we've just bought the plugin and noticed issues when rotating a the path's parent objects.
We need to rotate the main object dynamically for visual reasons and surely keep the path position/orientation settings of the camera path. But after rotating one of the parent objects, the paths seems to be working incorrectly.
Any workaround?
The same happens when setting the global orientation to a transform. New rotations are not being handled well.
Thanks