copying properties from play mode onto prefabs

One thing that'd be an awesome additions is the ability to copy properties from something in game to a prefab on disc. Cinemachine's Composer doesn't abide by the normal "Paste Component Values" you can usually do from the gear menu




I believe this is because Cinemachine was expected to be used as a bunch of cameras sitting in a scene. They were never meant to be dynamically instantiated. The Save During Play mode is awesome! But if you find yourself using instantiated cameras there's 0 way to copy parameters tweaked during runtime.

basically this section you have to copy by hand each time:



would be great to get some way to copy these parameters and paste them!

 

weird..

so here i've edited things in game and im liking it:



and heres the prefab - notice its values are different (they are the bad ones)




i choose "Paste Values"

and only this section will update

 

2018.1.0f1

cm 2.1.10

i believe

 

so i did this... and cinemachine fails to compile



what.. do i have to do to make CM actually compile?

 

but i did? I just deleted the Cinemachine folder.. was that not the asset?

sorry maybe i misunderstood the directions

 

hu.. so yeah i still get the same errors



now the cinemachine asset

thats just this folder right?





do i need to delete, restart, then try this?

 

i use unity collaborate

 

yeah even restarting still keeps those errors

 

collaborate must keep the meta files?

 

so deleting the .meta files didn't change the compile errors. So are the files

CinemachinePostFX.cs
CinemachineMixer.cs

not used by cinemachine but included by mistake somehow in my setup?

 

going back to the asset store version

 

wow... so the asset store doesn't compile now either. So this has totally bricked my project...




i love unity. i love unity *tells self

 

after trying the package manager version again i get NEW errors..




whats going on?

 

ok so after updating to 2018.1.1f i was able to use the package manager.

but some code i'd written has these errors

Gregoryl I know im probably an annoying thorn in the side but any chance you could help me with these?


what did the orbital transposers m_HeadingBias get changed to?

and what did Recentering become?

transposer.m_RecenterToTargetHeading.m_enabled = enabled;

 

aw... so the code isn't included with cinemachine anymore? how should I figure out how to modify anything through c#?

 

oh man... aaaand it reset every camera in the game. oh boy..

 

The original issue of the properties not being copy-able still persists sadly. But it's cool, i'm adjusting to CM. Its very mean to prefabs. I tend to lose alot of work (especially when it corrupts the prefabs on disc) but if I can get things slugged into version control then I can just revert and use that as the baseline so i've got a workflow going!

I'm bad at following up on some of these things myself as i'm also trying to move this slice forward. I'm gonna get you a simple demo repro of the blending problems I was having in another thread soon!

 

I'm actually facing the same issue where subcomponent values are not copied when either copying the values or the vcam as new.
Anything I'm missing ?

 

@Gregoryl I'm also having this issue in my project. Unity 2021.1.11f1, CM 2.8.4. I'm going 'Copy Component' on one CinemachineVirtualCamera, 'Paste Component Values' on another CinemachineVirtualCamera. It often does nothing at all; sometimes it sets the correct Body/Aim type but with all the default values; very, very occasionally it actually copies everything correctly.

I was hoping to go through my scenes and replace all of my VCams with a basic VCam prefab, with overridden values copied from the original VCams, so in the future I'd be able to easily tweak things like CinemachineCollider settings, project-wide; and would probably also use Prefab Variants for, say, all VCams which use POV Aim, so I can later tweak angle limits, input sensitivity, etc, project-wide. Realistically, I would need to be able to use the Copy/Paste Component Values function for this - the alternative is manually entering the many, many properties for dozens of VCams, which sounds like a nightmare, especially since the Copy/Paste supposedly should work.