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Cinemachine Blending Behaviours and 'Momentum'

Discussion in 'Cinemachine' started by SugarChap, Sep 15, 2020.

  1. SugarChap

    SugarChap

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    Hello,

    I have been using Cinemachine and love lots about it. Great work!

    Something that I have found jarring is that when transitioning between moving cameras, any velocity based on the previous camera is lost. This can often result in a sudden 'stopping' of the camera as the blend begins.

    My understanding is that internally the Cinemachine brain takes a 'snapshot' of it's state at the beginning of a transition, and then blends to the new camera. Only updating the new (top) camera.

    I would love a solution where the behaviour of the previous camera (for example, velocity) wasn't lost, making the blending smoother between these states. The brute force solutions could be to also update the previous camera while blending to the new one.

    Has anyone come across a solution?
     
    SugarChap, Sep 15, 2020
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  2. Gregoryl

    Gregoryl

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    In fact Cinemachine doesn't behave as you describe: under normal circumstances the outgoing vcam continues to be processed during the course of the blend, so it should be smooth. It's not based on a snapshot. Is it possible that your outgoing camera stops moving? Maybe because it gets deactivated?
     
    Gregoryl, Sep 15, 2020
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  3. SugarChap

    SugarChap

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    Whaaaat!? That's fantastic news. I must have been applying some confirmation bias to what I was seeing.

    I'm delighted to be corrected on this. Thankyou!
     
    SugarChap, Sep 15, 2020
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