Cinemachine Freelook Recenternow() Not Working

I have a cinemachine freelook camera, I can recenter the camera by setting the "Recenter To Target Heading" properties in the Inspector, It works fine.

But I want to manually recenter the camera by script instead of waiting the wait time.
And I found out there's a AxisState.Recentering.RecenterNow() method in the cinemachine freelook API,It should recenter the camera when I call the method if I haven't misunderstood it.

So I set the Wait Time to 10 and Recentering Time to 2 under the "Recenter To Target Heading" properties in the Inspector.
And I tried to run these...

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2.         playerFreeLookVCam.m_YAxisRecentering.RecenterNow();
3.         playerFreeLookVCam.m_RecenterToTargetHeading.RecenterNow();
4.         playerFreeLookVCam.m_XAxis.m_Recentering.RecenterNow();
5.         playerFreeLookVCam.m_YAxis.m_Recentering.RecenterNow();
6.  

None of them did anything, also the camera still recentered itself after 10 seconds...

So, how exactly is RecenterNow() works?
Also is there any way I can recenter the freelook camera without the camera auto recenter itself after wait time?
(Without directly edit the CinemachineFreeLook.m_XAxis and m_XAxis field)

 

That's good to know.
I'll wait for the update then.

 

I'm using 2.3.4 and looks like RecenterNow() still doesn't work. Any update on this?

 

Yeah doesn't work for me either

 

Still not working in 2.3.4, in which release is/was it supposed to be fixed? or will it be 2.4.0?
Sorry for resurrecting a topic that old, but we're also looking for a way to reset a FreeLook camera to the place it's supposed to be (e.g. warp it), but the heading is really a problem.

 

Follow and LookAt properties are populated at start.
Also, as noted by Windroid before, I can recenter the camera to the right position by enabling the recenter to target heading in the inspector but **not** by code :S

 

Nop, makes no difference, at the moment, the only way to bring the camera where I want it to be is to manually check and uncheck the RecenterTargetHeading.enabled in the inspector.

Could it be a conflict with the standby update set to Never instead?

 

The thing is, I want to teleport the vCam to the correct position before starting the transition to it, it just doesn't teleport to the right position.
A smaller project is sadly very hard to put together as I'm not sure how much of the code I can strip away without making it unplayable and therefore impossible to replicate the problem Any other viable option you would be open to, to have a look at it?

 

If I could only upload a video (like, less than 3MB .mp4) it would be much easier. Anyway, Here's the two states i find myself transitioning between:

the selected transform at the center of the screenshot is the GroupTarget transform, so far so good, the camera is heading in the right dierection.

but when it transition to to the other one (which has the same exact setup) and the target group changes heading direction, the new camera is suddenly heading to a completely random direction.

this is the setup of both cameras

Code (CSharp):

1. c.groupCamera.Priority = 1; // (all other cameras are set to 0 in the lines before)
2. c.groupCamera.m_StandbyUpdate = CinemachineVirtualCameraBase.StandbyUpdateMode.Always;
3. c.groupCamera.m_RecenterToTargetHeading.RecenterNow();
4. c.groupCamera.m_StandbyUpdate = CinemachineVirtualCameraBase.StandbyUpdateMode.Never;

 

You mean like this?

Code (CSharp):

1. c.groupCamera.m_StandbyUpdate = CinemachineVirtualCameraBase.StandbyUpdateMode.Always;
2. c.groupCamera.m_RecenterToTargetHeading.m_enabled = true;
3. c.groupCamera.m_RecenterToTargetHeading.RecenterNow();
4. c.groupCamera.m_RecenterToTargetHeading.m_enabled = false;
5. c.groupCamera.m_StandbyUpdate = CinemachineVirtualCameraBase.StandbyUpdateMode.Never;

Or do I have to also set the xaxis to 0?
Also, do I have to wait a frame, or should it happen instantly? Cause this doesn't seem to work either

 

Already tried, that doesnt work
And I have to keep the recenterToHeading off, apart from that frame when in need to reposition the camera.
(I'm super sorry, but please be aware I'm incredibly grateful for the passion and dedication you're putting into helping us <3)

 

ok:

Starting situation:
* vCam1 is live, correctly heading the same way that the TargetGroup is heading.
* vCam2 is not updating in standby heading wherever

Then:
* TargetGroup rotation is changed.
* vCam2 goes live -> here I need vCam2 to teleport in the correct position so that it matches the new rotation of the TargetGroup before i start the blend
* i initiate the blend between the two cameras

I can't have RecenterToTargetHedaing on apart from the frame in which I'm recentering vCam2

I hope that"s a bit more clear ^^"

 

By setting the vCam1 priotity to 0 and the vCam2 one to 1. Isn't that how this is upposed to work? :O

 

Doesn't seem to work either
Do I have to set the update method to Always as well?

 

nope it looks exactly like in the screenshot

 

I did ^^"

 

I'm setting up a small project to recreate the problem, with some very basic and easy to read setup, which is the best way to provide it to you?

 

Did it

 

Thanks this discussion helped me. I don't want to enable recentering (I dislike that feature in games) but when my character climbs ladders I need to recenter behind him in case the player started climbing looking towards the camera.

So here's what I did:

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2. public IEnumerator ResetCamera() {
3.     camController.m_RecenterToTargetHeading.m_enabled = true;
4.    camController.m_YAxisRecentering.RecenterNow();
5.    camController.m_RecenterToTargetHeading.RecenterNow();
6.    yield return new WaitForSeconds(camController.m_RecenterToTargetHeading.m_RecenteringTime);
7.    camController.m_RecenterToTargetHeading.m_enabled = false;
8. }
9.  

Works fine except the coroutine exits at 2/3 of the rotation, apparently m_RecenteringTime is not enough so gonna add some extra delay there.

 

And what happend then guys?

 

with me on 2.8.2 still not working RecenterNow() and i realy need it.
i try to set the value diretly on m_XAxis and m_YAxis but for some reasons if this is called on Start or somethign like it, the value is forced to 0 and then the next values passed to freelook.
same way, i tryed to make a bool variable 'started' and on UPDATE if it´s not true, calls recentering, and turns 'started' to true.. and ...... nothing!

 

Hi Gregoryl, is there a way to easily know when the re-centering has finished? As @spiritworld mentioned, m_RecenteringTime does not seem match with the time needed to recenter and if you stop rotations after m_RecenteringTime seconds, then the whole rotation is not completed (note that I am not using any delay).

Reading the documentation it mentions that this time is the "Maximum angular speed of recentering. Will accelerate into and decelerate out of this" so it makes sense that this time does not match.

 

Thanks,

I have implemented the check as follows:

Code (CSharp):

1.         private bool HasRecenteringConverged()
2.         {
3.             float x = cinemachineCamera.m_XAxis.Value;
4.             float y = cinemachineCamera.Follow.rotation.eulerAngles.y;
5.  
6.             // Wrap angles around 0 and 360.
7.             x = x % 360;
8.             y = y % 360;
9.             if (x < 0) x += 360;
10.             if (y < 0) y += 360;
11.  
12.             // Compare the 2 angles.
13.             float angle = Mathf.Abs(x - y);
14.  
15.             // Return if the difference between them is 1.
16.             // NOTE: That we also need to compare with 360-1.
17.             return (angle < 1f || angle > 359f);
18.         }

• Our start setup is with xaxis = 0.
• Had to wrap angles to make sure we do not compare wrongly things like -1 != 359
• Due to the code not accurately finishing at the exact 0 value, I added an angle threshold of 1º

Does all this make sense? Or am I overdoing?

Now, I am a bit worried that if the camera due to obstacle avoidance or other reasons does not converge for a while. Is this possible? Should I add some sort of max time to anyways consider the re-centering has finished?

Thanks in advance!

 

I saw this thread from 2019 saying that it doesn't work but that it will be fixed soon, but for me (Unity 2021.2), it still doesn't work. Yes, the recentering is enabled; I'm using POV.

I went to debug to understand the cause, and RecenterNow does just this:

Code (CSharp):

1. public void RecenterNow()
2. {
3.     mLastAxisInputTime = 0;
4. }

Then, DoRecentering does this:

Code (CSharp):

1. if (CinemachineCore.CurrentTime < (mLastAxisInputTime + m_WaitTime))
2.     return;

How this is going to work?? m_WaitTime is being added by 0.
mLastAxisInputTime should be a very high number to make it work, not 0, or am I missing something here?

I decided to do it this way:

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2. characterPOV.m_HorizontalRecentering.DoRecentering(ref characterPOV.m_HorizontalAxis, -1.0f, characterPOV.FollowTarget.transform.rotation.eulerAngles.y);
3. characterPOV.m_VerticalRecentering.DoRecentering(ref characterPOV.m_VerticalAxis, -1.0f, 0.0f);

Note: < 0 for delta time is a special value checked internally to recenter ignoring the conditions, used natively.
I used this for an immediate recenter, it was perfect.

 

I'm using 2.8.4.

Here is my settings:

Tried with Wait time 10 and Recentering Time 1 too.
It works if I wait until the time, but using RecenterNow there is no effect.

Here, this condition is never true when I use RecenterNow. Is this really expected? Because the recenter code is just right after this condition, or when using RecenterNow Cinemachine does a different call?

The condition only passes if I do NOT use RecenterNow, and wait for the time.

Remembering that I already solved my specific problem, but I found this curious.