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Cinemachine Camera can see through the ground/terrain

Discussion in 'Cinemachine' started by anthony-pinskey, Oct 15, 2018.

  1. anthony-pinskey

    anthony-pinskey

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    Hi There!

    I noticed with my Free Look Camera that it can easily see through the ground/terrain when the player moves the camera down with the joystick while orbiting around. I tried setting the Camera Radius to around 2-3 but it still can clip through. I have my strategy set to Pull Camera forward.

    Here is a screenshot of my collider settings.



    Is there a way natively to achieve this within Cinemachine so that the camera can't go through objects/terrain?

    Thank you in advance!
     
    anthony-pinskey, Oct 15, 2018
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  2. Gregoryl

    Gregoryl

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    You don't need such a huge camera radius. Turn it way down.
    First thing to try is to turn off the damping settings in the collider. Make it work naively first, then add sophistication.
    Reduce the minimum distance from target. Turn it way down.
    Does it still happen?
     
    Gregoryl, Oct 15, 2018
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  3. anthony-pinskey

    anthony-pinskey

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    Thanks Gregoryl, I did as you said and the camera still can see through the ground/terrain when it is pulled to the bottom of the rig.
     
    anthony-pinskey, Oct 15, 2018
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  4. Gregoryl

    Gregoryl

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    Can you show me some pictures? Inspectors, hierarchies, scene view from the side with the vcam selected, clearly illustrating the problem? Don't forget the inspector for the terrain too.
     
    Gregoryl, Oct 15, 2018
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  5. anthony-pinskey

    anthony-pinskey

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    Hi Gregoryl. During the process of prepping pictures for you I noticed that my Follow target was some reason going underneath the character into the terrain! After I lifted the Follow object up into an appropriate position everything worked as expected with the collider system.

    Thanks again!
     
    anthony-pinskey, Oct 15, 2018
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  6. potorium

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    Your are stars! Thanks both for this.
     
    potorium, May 30, 2023
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