Creating an Oblivion Style NPC Camera Transition

Hello,

I am making a first person adventure game and was wondering how I could start making a camera transition similar to the one found in Elder Scrolls Oblivion when the player starts a conversation with an NPC.

From what I observe 3 things happen

1. The player’s camera rotates and locks in place to be at eyeline with the NPC

2. The player’s camera zooms in towards the NPC's face

3. The NPC rotates to face the player.

Right now, I am only concerned with getting step 1 solved. I've scanned through the Cinemachine documentation just to see what it has offer in terms of features, but I have yet to try it out. Would Cinemachine be a good approach to doing something like this?

 

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A few ways to do that.

You could make a player-relative camera which looks at and follows people, using a standard vcam with Composer in the Aim slot and Orbital Transposer in the Body slot. Tune that camera to look how you want for their closeup shot.

Then, whenever you wish to blend to that angle, simply turn that camera on or raise its priority.

The blending between vcams is set to 2 seconds as a default - on the Cinemachine Brain on the Main Camera. You can change that to whatever you want or create custom blends between any two cameras, etc.

Should be really easy, let us know how it goes.