Resolved Confiner not working for 2D

Hi!

I'm a beginner in Unity, and I'm having difficulty confining my Cinemachine.

Its a pretty simple requirement, when i reach the end of the screen on the right or left, i dont want to the camera to keep moving.
additionally, i also dont want it to show some part of the bottom.

I did the following:

1. Created an empty object and added a Box collider - made it fit my entire level, its surrounding it.
2. Added an Extension to Cinemachine called "Cinemachine Confiner":
   1. Confine mode is Confine 2D
   2. Bounding Shape is the collider i've created
   3. Confine screen edges it turned ON
   4. didnt touch Damping...

Green part is the Confiner of course:


and it doesn't work, it doesn't confine anything although it sounds very stirght fowrad from what i've been reading...

Thanks in advance,

Dx

 

Thank you!

I actually saw that warning in the beginning, but when i used a polygon a lot of things didnt work, and the clamp didnt seem to work either, so i tried other Colliders and used the most basic one which is a box (since its a 2D platformer), and when that didnt work either i decided to use the forums... forgetting about that warning.

Using a polygon it does indeed clamp it to the borders i've made (a box), and i noticed something's wrong with the physics so i just created another layer for the Confiner and took everything off from that new layer in the Physics 2D.
is that the correct approach if you have a collider within a collider? (my player is within the polygon, if its on the same layer).

Thanks again for the quick reply, and sorry lol

 

I also had the same problem with the physics, and I never thought to add the confiner to the player layer. Thanks for helping out, I couldn't find any video on this so this really helped me

 

Oh?



Using the CinemachineConfiner2D component doesn't give me that warning, so I was confused why it wasn't working.
Thanks!

Using a PolygonCollider2D worked instead in my case as well!
This is kind of good news -- we can make more complex shapes with this anyways!

 

I tired to use

BoxCollider2D

used by the

CompositeCollider2D

, but it still warns that
"CompositeCollider2D geometry type must be Polygone".

I'm wondering why it must be exactly Polygon? I mean what is wrong with a rectangle shape? In my case, I need to change the confiner at runtime, and it seems to me to be more efficient to use simple forms like boxes, so why is a simple BoxCollider2D not supported and must have more than 4 vertices?

 

I am trying to use my bounding shape Cam Boundry but the confiner won't confine to it after I load a level and go back to the previous level. Any idea as to why it won't confine? Could it be because the boundary isn't in the DontDestroyOnLoad. How could I go about fixing this?


Fix:
I was able to write a script that got the gameobjects polygon collider component and use it for the confiner.

This is my code for people with similar issues.

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using Cinemachine;

public class DirectingCamBoundry : MonoBehaviour
{
private GameObject BoundryEmptyObject;
public PolygonCollider2D BoundryShape;



public CinemachineConfiner confiner;



// Start is called before the first frame update
void Start()
{

}

// Update is called once per frame
void Update()
{
if (GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("Boundry") == null)
{
confiner.m_BoundingShape2D = null;
}

else
{
BoundryEmptyObject = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("Boundry");
BoundryShape = BoundryEmptyObject.GetComponent<PolygonCollider2D>();

confiner.m_BoundingShape2D = BoundryShape;
}

}
}

 

Can we get support for BoxCollider2D added though? It's much easier to work with boxes in existing level creation tools than polygons.

 

You can use a boxcollider, you just have to change the geometry type of the composite collider to Polygons