Follow Target recovery

When a live virtual cam loses it's "Follow Target" transform, the default behavior seems to be that the camera just stops in place. Is there anything in the brain or setup where we can change/control that default behavior?

For example, disabling that camera so a different virtual cam could take priority would be a natural choice.

Alternatively, are there listeners already in the api that we can use to choose what to do next?

Or maybe just some simple scripts that we need to add to each virtual cam to handle the target becoming null? I'd prefer not to poll every frame that FollowTarget != null

To provide a scenario for context, lets imagine a tower defense game where you have close up virtual cams following each attacker. When the attacker gets killed (follow target becomes null), you'd want the brain to move on to another virtual cam with a valid follow target instead of stare sorrowfully at the spot the attacker died. How would you set that up?

 

Ok, will try this. Since some camera types require a Follow Target, and some don't, what's the best way to tell the difference between Body types? I don't see that in the API. Something like...

Code (CSharp):

1. //recover from lost target if necessary
2.             if (mBrain.ActiveVirtualCamera.Follow == null) {
3.                 //if Body of Live Vcam is 'Framing Transposer'
4.                 //        find a new target, disable Live vcam, switch to a default cam, etc
5.                 //else if Body of Live Vcam is 'Do Nothing'
6.                 //        do nothing since camera isn't supposed to have a target
7.             }

 

Thanks for the ideas Gregoryl!

While it would be great to have scripting access to all the settings like vcam Type, there is an exposed reference for vcam.Name so I can use some spaghetti code switches to work with my specific named cameras. This seems to be working...

Code (CSharp):

1. //recover from lost target if necessary
2.             if (mBrain.ActiveVirtualCamera.Follow == null) {
3.                 if (mBrain.ActiveVirtualCamera.Name == "CM follows some target") {
4.                     mBrain.ActiveVirtualCamera.VirtualCameraGameObject.SetActive(false);
5.                 }
6.             }

 

To clarify what I mean by vcam type, how would I access the Body, Aim or Noise enum that is selected for that vcam? Once I have a reference to the vcam, I can access Name and Lens (e.g., vcam.Name, vcam.m_Lens), but I can't find the others.

 

Let me check for understanding.
Originally, I was hearing that component.isValid was a proxy for vcam.Follow == null

Now, I'm hearing that component.isValid takes into account the specific requirements of each vCam type, and would only check vcam.Follow for body types that require a Follow Target

So if the body type is Framing Transposer, component.isValid will be false when vcam.Follow == null
But if the body type is DoNothing, component.isValid will be true when vcam.Follow == null

If I'm now hearing you correctly, thanks for your patience