Cinemachine Confiner 2D update area

Hello,

In my scene I would like to use several Confiner2D. I tried to change the collider that serves as a reference to confine but it bug, I tried disabling the GameObject, change the collider and reactivate the GameObject, but still nothing.

Looks like the Confiner keeps the coordinates in memory and it's not possible to change the containment zone to runtime.

I keep trying a lot of little things but I can not find, would you have any idea?

I am looking to make a dynamic change because in a single scene I can have 2 different confines up to 10 for evolution in the game level.

I am interested in any idea. I thought of doing several cameras but I find it so heavy as a process.

In advance I thank you for your help.

Cordially
Mr Nazarick

 

Thank you very much. It works perfectly!

 

That's exactly what I was looking for and it works now! Thanks!

As a side question (not sure if I should make another topic or not, as the title of this one is broad enough): The camera changes abruptly with this method. How can we change the camera location smoothly, in a way that it kind of "sweeps/moves" to the new location, instead of "teleporting", with Cinemachine? (Imagine a Metroid camera that moves when you change rooms; or, better yet, Hollow Knight, when you find a secret area).

As an example:

(from 0:18 to 0:25), he activates a trigger collider, so the camera confiner changes, and the camera moves smoothly to its new location, instead of "teleporting".

Thank you!

 

Ok, now it works perfectly! Just to register it for future reference, this is what I've done to achieve a Hollow Knight-like secret-found camera, updating the 2D Confiner Area with blend:

I added to my scene only one CinemachineBrain GameObject, and two (in this case) Virtual Cameras GameObjects, identical in its properties but with different confiners (this was all done in the editor, and inspector, no scripts). Then, I selected the virtual camera with the first confiner I wished to use and, in the Inspector, clicked the "Solo" button, so it's Status changed to Live.

Then, in the script of my trigger, i simply added the following (in its proper places, following good practices):

Code (CSharp):

1. GameObject cam;
2. GameObject secretCam;
3.  
4. cam = GameObject.Find("FollowCam");
5. secretCam = GameObject.Find("SecretCam");
6. secretCam.SetActive(true);
7. cam.SetActive(false);

, where FollowCam is the name of the current virtual camera GameObject in the Hierarchy and SecretCam is the name of the virtual camera GameObject I want to change into.

Finally, it was all a matter to change the blend settings in the Inspector of the CinemachineBrain object.

Didn't even had to use

confiner.InvalidatePathCache()

!


Thank you very much, Gregoryl! You rock!!

 

Hi,

Do you need to call for confiner.InvalidatePathCache() when you change m_BoundingVolume as well?

Bye,

Jean

 

ok, thanks

Bye,

Jean

 

Thanks Gregoryl, exactly what i needed!

 

Is there any issues related to this 2019.2.0f1? (Cinemachine version 2.3.4). I just spent the whole day trying to have InvalidatePathCache update the path with no success. I tried putting the code everywhere including awake, start, and update. I tried polygon collider and composite colliders. The collider works perfectly when inserted manually in the editor even while the game is playing. Any ideas for debugging it? Thanks!

 

OK. I ended up creating the test project and it worked which puzzled me.

I just figured the problem out. It turned out that the collider that I provided was the prefab collider, not the instance collider. Cinemachine definitely does not like that. Once the instance collider was provided, it worked perfectly.

Thanks!

 

I know its a bit old but i'm having this problem atm don't know where to call this code, what is confiner? my polygoncollider2d? If you can provide and example of using this would be awesome

 

@unkopath Select your CM vcam, go to inspector, scroll down to the CinemachineVirtualCamera, at the bottom there are Extensions, select CinemachineConfiner from the drop down it will add Cinemachine Confiner script to your CM vcam.

 

Hello, Here is my full script to activate confiner for Boss (or other thing) :
I've place it into into a Gameobject and can be call from where you want, you also can imagine create multiple replacements (just replace IF by SWITCH fo choices).

Code (CSharp):

1. using System.Collections;
2. using System.Collections.Generic;
3. using UnityEngine;
4. using Cinemachine;
5.  
6. public class confinerReplacer : MonoBehaviour
7. {
8.     public GameObject levelGO;
9.     public GameObject bossGO;
10.    
11.     public bool isBoss;
12.    
13.     public CinemachineConfiner confiner;
14.    
15.     // Start is called before the first frame update
16.     void Start()
17.     {
18.        
19.     }
20.  
21.     // Update is called once per frame
22.     void Update()
23.     {
24.         if(isBoss){
25.             replaceConfinerShape2D(levelGO, bossGO);
26.            
27.         }else{
28.             replaceConfinerShape2D(bossGO, levelGO);
29.            
30.         }
31.     }
32.    
33.     public void replaceConfinerShape2D(GameObject oldGO, GameObject newGO){
34.        
35.         oldGO.SetActive(false);
36.         newGO.SetActive(true);
37.         confiner.m_BoundingShape2D = newGO.GetComponent<CompositeCollider2D>();
38.         confiner.InvalidatePathCache();
39.        
40.     }
41. }

Thanks