Camera smooth change

Hello guys!

I got a ball game and have a own 3rd person camera. It just follows the ball and with 'C', its possible to change the angle of the camera to front,left,right,back. I want to do this change of the camera smoothly. I tried several things, but nothing works out for me .

Vector3.Lerp will be my solution, I guess, like:

Code (JavaScript):

1. Vector3.Lerp(Camera.main.transform.position,new Vector3(transform.position.x+camera_x,transform.position.y+camera_y,transform.position.z+camera_z), 0.5f);

But i don't know how i should include it to my following script, because it should wait 0.5 seconds, before the normal 'follow the ball' camera should do its job. Maybe you got some input for me, how i could do this.

Code (JavaScript):

1.  
2. if(camera_axis == 1){
3.             if(camera_x != 0.0){
4.                 camera_x  = 0.0;
5.             }
6.             if(camera_z != -8.0){
7.                 camera_z  = -8.0;
8.             }
9.            
10.             Camera.main.transform.position = new Vector3(transform.position.x+camera_x,transform.position.y+camera_y,transform.position.z+camera_z);
11.         }
12.         if(camera_axis == 2){
13.             if(camera_z != 0.0){
14.                 camera_z  = 0.0;
15.             }
16.             if(camera_x != -8.0){
17.                 camera_x  = -8.0;
18.             }
19.            
20.             Camera.main.transform.position = new Vector3(transform.position.x+camera_x,transform.position.y+camera_y,transform.position.z+camera_z);
21.         }
22.         if(camera_axis == 3){
23.             if(camera_x != 0.0){
24.                 camera_x  = 0.0;
25.             }
26.             if(camera_z != 8.0){
27.                 camera_z  = 8.0;
28.             }
29.            
30.             Camera.main.transform.position = new Vector3(transform.position.x+camera_x,transform.position.y+camera_y,transform.position.z+camera_z);
31.            
32.         }
33.        
34.         if(camera_axis == 4){
35.             if(camera_z != 0.0){
36.                 camera_z  = 0.0;
37.             }
38.             if(camera_x != 8.0){
39.                 camera_x  = 8.0;
40.             }
41.            
42.             Camera.main.transform.position = new Vector3(transform.position.x+camera_x,transform.position.y+camera_y,transform.position.z+camera_z);
43.         }
44.        
45.         Camera.main.transform.LookAt(transform);
46.  

 

I just changed my script a bit, its working pretty stable (of 100 changes - just 1 or 2 which does not get recognized).

Code (JavaScript):

1.     function LateUpdate()
2.     {
3.         // Camera_axis 1 = normal (foward)
4.         // Camera_axis 2 = looking to the right (forward = right);
5.         // Camera_axis 3 = looking to the left (forward = left);
6.         // Camera_axis 4 = looking back (forward = back);
7.         if(camera_positioning){
8.             distance = Vector3.Distance(Camera.main.transform.position, Vector3(transform.position.x+camera_x,transform.position.y+camera_y,transform.position.z+camera_z));
9.             distCovered = (Time.time - startTime) * 0.5;
10.             fracJourney = distCovered / distance;
11.             Camera.main.transform.position = Vector3.Lerp(Camera.main.transform.position, Vector3(transform.position.x+camera_x,transform.position.y+camera_y,transform.position.z+camera_z), fracJourney);
12.             ChillBro();
13.         }else{
14.             if(camera_axis == 1){
15.                 if(camera_x != 0.0){
16.                     camera_x  = 0.0;
17.                 }
18.                 if(camera_z != -8.0){
19.                     camera_z  = -8.0;
20.                     camera_positioning = true;
21.                 }else{
22.                     Camera.main.transform.position = new Vector3(transform.position.x+camera_x,transform.position.y+camera_y,transform.position.z+camera_z);
23.                 }
24.             }
25.             if(camera_axis == 2){
26.                 if(camera_z != 0.0){
27.                     camera_z  = 0.0;
28.                 }
29.                 if(camera_x != -8.0){
30.                     camera_x  = -8.0;
31.                     camera_positioning = true;
32.                 }else{
33.                     Camera.main.transform.position = new Vector3(transform.position.x+camera_x,transform.position.y+camera_y,transform.position.z+camera_z);
34.                 }
35.             }
36.             if(camera_axis == 3){
37.                 if(camera_x != 0.0){
38.                     camera_x  = 0.0;
39.                 }
40.                 if(camera_z != 8.0){
41.                     camera_z  = 8.0;
42.                     camera_positioning = true;
43.                 }else{
44.                     Camera.main.transform.position = new Vector3(transform.position.x+camera_x,transform.position.y+camera_y,transform.position.z+camera_z);
45.                 }
46.                
47.             }
48.            
49.             if(camera_axis == 4){
50.                 if(camera_z != 0.0){
51.                     camera_z  = 0.0;
52.                 }
53.                 if(camera_x != 8.0){
54.                     camera_x  = 8.0;
55.                     camera_positioning = true;
56.                 }else{
57.                     Camera.main.transform.position = new Vector3(transform.position.x+camera_x,transform.position.y+camera_y,transform.position.z+camera_z);
58.                 }
59.             }
60.         }
61.        
62.         Camera.main.transform.LookAt(transform);
63.     }
64.  
65. function ChillBro(){
66.         yield WaitForSeconds (0.05);
67.         camera_positioning = false;
68.     }
69.  

Hope i can help somebody with the same problem.