Change Cinemachine camera start position

Background
I have a Cinemachine free look camera in a prefab, amongst other stuff. When loading the scene I instantiate the prefab (with the camera as a child) and set the Follow and LookAt target when instantiated.

Problem
When loading the scene the camera now starts from some random position in the ground and then smoothly moves to its target where it then starts to work perfectly. However, I want the camera to start from a given position above the map and then move it toward the target.
How can I change where the Cinemachine camera starts at?

 

Can you please give me some details on how to use this? Doc says I can use CinemachineVirtualCameraBase. ForceCameraPosition but that class doesn't exists. So I should create this function myself and then call it with the desired pos and rot? And in the function I need to set transform pos and rot to given values?

 

Thanks, it is not working though. I have an empty gameobject which I set where I want the camera to be starting. Then I have the following code on the camera (or on some other object, it was the same result):

Code (CSharp):

1. cinemachineCamera.ForceCameraPosition(cameraStartPos.transform.position, cameraStartPos.transform.rotation);

Then later on I set my target and lookAt to my player:

Code (CSharp):

1. cinemachineCamera.m_LookAt = _target.transform;
2. cinemachineCamera.m_Follow = _target.transform;

It is still starting in this random middle position though when loading the scene and nothing is changing.

 

Good idea, this should work great!

 

I have a similar problem. I have a ResetCamera function that snaps the FreeLook camera behind the player using ForceCameraPosition(), which works fine during play. But at level start the level the Cinemachine rig is initialised at the origin and then reset into position (because the spawn point is in an additive level). Even though I am using the same function, it does not work at level start, instead causing the camera to fly across the level.

As far as I can tell there are no blends in progress when the ResetCamera is called. Even turning the CinemachineBrain off and on again (with a few frames delay) doesn't prevent this blend. Is there any way I can flush the system to ensure the camera just snaps to where it should be before I fade in?

I don't want to use Cut as the default blend because that will make all my other camera transitions cut instead of blending, unless I create and maintain blend rules for every camera in the game (Ideally I'd register a callback to tell the system what type of blend to use but IDK if that is even the problem here)

 

Did this solve your issue? I am stuck also.

 

There seems to be an issue with the suggested solution from Unity. I'm running into the same issue. I am using a virtual camera that is set to position itself behind the player but always starts looking at the side of the player on scene start, then as the player moves forward it rotates to behind the player.

Where is the virtual camera getting its initial rotation set from because the only options I see we can edit are the ones that effect the cameras movement during play. I'm not sure where its deciding that it initially should view the side of the player before the player starts moving. Creating multiple cameras to solve a starting camera orientation issue cannot be the solution.

 

Hi. I wanted to press "C" to move the CinematicmachineFreeLook camera to a certain position and press "C" again to return to my position ... The problem is that I can't move with CinemacitcFreeLook or the main camera at all. Don't know how to solve this?