FadeIn/FadeOut using Cinemachine !?

Hi, how one could add a black or white FadeIn/FadeOut with Cinemachine ?
Want to start a cinematic cut with a fade in from black for example.

I think one way could be adding a world space canvas to the camera with animator and toggle the canvas and animator components in timeline. In fact i just tried it but can not figure out how to toggle the animator component attached to the camera. I only can toggle the camera game object !

Is there any more generic way of doing FadeIns and FadeOuts ?

Thanks !

 

Thank You !
That works perfect !

 

Yes, that should be a bit cleaner as i am having now animator components and a storyboard components on all 3 virtual cameras. This way i will manage a single fade camera !

 

Hi Gregory,

I wonder if you may assist me with this a little. I am fairly new to cinemachine, in fact, just looking at it today.

The scenario I have is a 2D platformer. Entry/Exit points on the left and right of the screen. I've managed to wire up the fade out based on your instuctions above, the player collides with a boxcollider2d on the right hand side, an animation trigger is set, the camera fades to black. What I can't seem to work out is how to do the reverse, not using Cinemachine anyway.

I can create the same triggering based on the player arriving in the scene, but I can't seem to find a way to change the alpha from 1 to 0?

Any help would be really appreciated.

 

Hey Gregory,
Thank you for Helping, I want to make fade in and out animation when the camera changes. Right now I am just fading the alpha of an image using script when player collide with cinemachine camera change collider. I want to achieve this.

Time :- between 2:48 sec to 2:53 sec.

Is there any way I can do that using cinemachine using storyboard or with anything else?
Thank you.

 

Thank you so much. Now I think I am able to grasp what you are saying. Sorry I haven't use timeline before so I don't know It's functionality much. Thank you so much for your guidance.

 

Hey.
1.On assets store is only CM 2.1.10 version. So I cant add new storyboard script to my camera Ant others idea how i can add FadeIn/Out ?
2. I want smooth blend transition between two camera, is possible? like in this movie

 

hi, i am using cnimachine version 2.3.4 and i can not find storyboard script in CM package. why is that??

 

found it
thank you so much

 

Edit: Okay when I play it in the editor it blends. It just didn't do it when playing the timeline.

I've read post #2 and #4 a couple of times but can't figure it out. I have a vcam with a timeline. I have added another vcam to the timeline and want to fade between these two. I've created a third vcam with a Storyboard with alpha 1. I then add it to the timeline (by activating and deactivating it) overlapping the other ones but it just makes a clean cut without blend. What do I miss?

 

Simple and effective. Thank you @Gregoryl

 

If you are using UWRP Put this script On the Main Camera, and add Signal (FadeIn or fadeOut) in your Timeline

Code (CSharp):

1. using System.Collections;
2. using System.Collections.Generic;
3. using UnityEngine;
4. using UnityEngine.Rendering;
5. public class FadeOut : MonoBehaviour
6. {
7.  
8.     Volume volume;
9.  
10.     VolumeProfile volprofile;
11.     UnityEngine.Rendering.Universal.LiftGammaGain gamma;
12.  
13.     // Start is called before the first frame update
14.     void Start()
15.     {
16.         volume = GetComponent<Volume>();
17.         volprofile = volume.profile;
18.      
19.         volprofile.TryGet(out gamma);
20.  
21.         Debug.Log(gamma);
22.     }
23.  
24.     public void doFadeOut()
25.     {
26.         StartCoroutine(doFade(-1));
27.      
28.     }
29.  
30.     public void doFadeIn()
31.     {
32.         StartCoroutine(doFade(0.1f));
33.     }
34.  
35.     IEnumerator doFade(float i)
36.     {
37.         for (float a = 0; a <= 1; a += Time.deltaTime*5)
38.         {
39.             float b;
40.             if (i < 0)
41.             {
42.                 b = i * a;
43.                 if (b < -0.85f) { b = i; }
44.                    }
45.  
46.          
47.             else
48.             {
49.                 b = -1+a;
50.              
51.                 if (b > -0.05f) { b = 0;}
52.                 Debug.Log(b);
53.             }
54.          
55.  
56.             gamma.gain.Override(new Vector4(0, 0, 0, b));
57.             yield return null;
58.         }
59.  
60.  
61.      
62.  
63.     }
64. }

 

I tried this trick with HDRP and in general it works, but I have an ugly 1 pixel border that is not covered by the black image of the virtual storyboard camera. I tried different scale modes for the image and also different image resolutions. I don't know, if this is a rounding bug in the boudaries of the image, or intentional, or just a stupid mistake by me

 

This is how it looks like shortly before the crossfade to black is complete. The error is visible on the left and on the right of the game view.

 

The problem is, that I use Unity Recorder to capture high quality movies from my camera shots. I use the recorder window(!) to capture these movies from the game view and that includes the ugly pixel border.

So, if I understand you correctly, one way to get rid off the pixels would be to capture the movie not from the recorder window, but from a timeline track instead. This however would mean that I always have to build an executable in order to get a movie without the pixels.
This is a little bit uncomfortable because it will slow down my workflow - but I will give it a try.

Thanks a lot for your fast reply!

 

I just tested to build and execute and the pixel border is visible even there!

 

Thanks for fixing. I also tried to simulate a fade to black with a quad in front of the camera - but the fade was not as smooth (or let's say "linear") as the fade that you can archieve with this Storyboard trick. And I tried all the settings (blend mode, rendering pass after post-process etc...) for the unlit material I had. I don't know what magic you guys are doing under the hood to blend the Storyboard image in, but for me it's the best solution for a fade to black that I found so far

 

Thanks for the fix! Would you mind telling me when is the next release planned? Thanks in advance

 

@Gregoryl There is a bug in Unity Recorder in 2021.3 LTS. The result of the bug is that the storyboard animation track (or storyboards in general) do not post to the rendered content in Unity Recorder. Thus, this solution does not work. I really wish this basic feature of fade to black would have been added already, considering Cinemachine is years out and has always invited professionals to use it. I should not have to post a feature request to see a basic feature added that professionals absolutely need to consider Unity a professional product for any type of film or even rendering video from games.

 

I I have a related question. I'm using a cinemachine VCam with a storyboard to fade to black in all my scenes, which works pretty well. It has one issue though: it seems to behave fairly inconsistently in whether it fades out UI as well. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't.

Since Gregoryl mentioned above that the storyboard is essentially just a canvas, this makes sense: it simply depends on whether this canvas is rendered above or below the GUI canvas I have in my scene. What I can't figure out though, is if and how I can determine the render order of the storyboard canvas. There doesn't seem to be a setting for it. I assume I'm missing something obvious though, since the system would be fairly useless if you couldn't determine whether to fade over or under your GUI (you'd be better off with a custom panel to achieve the same effect in pretty much every case).

 

Is this me doing something wrong here ? When adding a transition cam, the actual transform of the storyboard camera is also applied. I guess it's a normal behaviour, but would there be something like ignore camera transform/keep prev camera transform offset (the way it can be done for root animation for instance)

This would be great as you could transition from cams to other "standardized" effect cams without having to worry about the positionning (Ex : FoV modification, Post processing, Noise, and ofc what is of subject that is the storyboard extension)

The current usecase is a looping timeline for which I'd like a blackin blackout transition, I'd like to use a single black storyboard cam, but the in/out cam are different so it does not work here.

 

Thanks Gregoryl. You guys are the best.