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Forcing a virtual camera to a state (rotation/position) via script

Discussion in 'Cinemachine' started by lucasmontec, Jun 2, 2019.

  1. lucasmontec

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    Hey how are you guys?
    I`m trying to switch between two virtual cameras, an orbital camera and an POV camera. One is a cinemachine freelook camera and the other is a Virtual Camera with a POV 'component'.
    What I want to do is to set the POV camera to have the exact same position and rotation as the orbital camera on the switch. The problem I'm facing is that cinemachine doesn't expose ANYTHING for me to set. Everything is completely hidden and automatic. I have tried setting the virtual camera transform, setting its CameraState raw orientation and calling an update, setting without calling the update and many other things. The camera seems to override any settings I use. Is this achievable with cinemachine at all?
     
    lucasmontec, Jun 2, 2019
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  2. Gregoryl

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    Try enabling this in the vcams:

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    You can't simply set the vcam transform because, as you have noticed, the vcam will override whatever you do. That's the nature of procedural motion. If you want to manually position vcams, it's possible but you'll have to do a little more work.

    BTW what version of CM are you using?
     
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  3. lucasmontec

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    I'm using the latest version. The position part is working actually, the rotation part is what I cannot get to work... I need the POV camera to start looking to the same position that the free look was looking at.
     
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  4. Gregoryl

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    Does it work if you enable InheritPosition?
     
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  5. lucasmontec

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    It does! Thanks for this. This name is weird but it makes sense. Kinda hidden and weird since it inherits everything...
     
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  6. lucasmontec

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    @Gregoryl
    One last thing... when I change the Time.timescale to anything lower than 1, the game FPS seems to drop. I don't know if it is the FPS or if the camera is stuttering to follow the object. My brain is configured to ignore the timescale and it is set to update on FixedUpdate.
     
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  7. lucasmontec

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    Actually I have solved this. It was the object stuttering. Using smart update and setting the object to interpolate the physics movement solved this.
     
    lucasmontec, Jun 8, 2019
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