CinemachineBrain.BlendTo(VCam) method or similar?

I am fully aware of the desired workflow and setup required by Cinemachine to work (changing priority of virtual cameras, or mix groups), but I was wondering if something like a BlendTo override method exists.
Something that would allow me to provide a VirtualCamera to a Brain and have it blend to it in X seconds, regardless of the layer the VCam is on.

 

Because we're doing a split-screen game, where each player has it's own set of virtual cameras on their player-specific layer, so they only influence that player's brain.

However, there are situations where P1 and P2 will be using a single camera, in this case the active one of P1; to dynamically merge the views, I'd love to force P2's brain to transition to P1's currently active vCam, before turning it off.

Basically what happens in this gif, but in reverse and at runtime, instead than timeline-driven.

Thank you so much for the insanely quick answer btw <3

And yes, I was wondering because I noticed that in the Timeline you can transition to vCams regardless of the layer they are on.

 

Because that would mean duplicating all player cameras in the game, as each player will have one vCam per orange character in his line of characters (see this gif to get what I mean, though in this case both player have only one orange guy) +1. Another thing I thought would be creating a vCam clone at runtime; I could clone P1 active camera, set it's layer to P2, transition to it and then trash everything, would that work?

Thanks! We're trying to use Cinemachine as a in-game camera management tool as we have a very particular game which needs a lot of variables to be taken in consideration; but sometimes we feel like we're trying to push it too far ^^"

 

I don't need Both players to blend to it, I just need P2 to blend to P1 active vCam OR to a camera that is in the same position of the currently active P1 vCam. As P1 could have N+1 cameras, it means that each camera needs a copy that P2 can use to transition to.

That's why making a runtime clone could save some time.
Otherwise, the API extension you were talking about is the Brain.SetCameraOverride() method that I see in the CinemachineMixer.cs, right?

Also, we're trying to make a setup that doesn't limit us to only 2 players, but that is virtually player-number-independent.

We're trying to, one thing at a time. Eventually I will have tons of questions on the Cinemachine collider component, when used together with a target group as a frame composer

 

That sounds like a solution, as Players hold the vCam layermask in a public variable.
Do you have suggestions on how to synchronize a Coroutine with a float blend parameter, with the current blend of a brain?

 

It's related as the visual effect shown in the gifs I previously linked is achieved together with a UI setup used to mask the camera viewport while it gets blended from fullscreen to half.
This would need a reverse viewport blend while the camera viewports go back to cover the whole screen.
As this time the cinemachine blend is not taking place in the timeline, I won't be using a custom clip to do the viewport blending as I'm doing in my cuscene (like in this gif, I swear that's the last one I post here) and therefore I would create a Coroutine to run the viewport blend. As a Cinemachine Blend doesn't necessarily have a fixed timespan (or am I wrong? What happens if vCam A or B of the blend are moving?) I'd rather synch my Coroutine to the brain blendamount.
If the question is too unrelated, I can create a new thread ^^"

 

boom.

Now I only need to revert it when players detach. Thank you so much for the help, I will post another gif when I'm done <3

Also I've seen @Adam_Myhill appreciates the outcome too

 

Done
I need to optimize the code a bit, but i think the effect is pretty neat.

@Gregoryl I'm now trying to force jump the P2 camera to the P1 position right before splitting the view, but I onlly managed to do so in a coroutine, becauseif I only turn on that vCam (as I'm doing for the merge part) i need to wait a frame after i turn on P2 brain for the cut to happen. Is that by design?

Because in this thread you seem to hint otherwise.