Freelook to Freelook - How to Aim Consistently?

Hey guys, any thoughts on how you might do a freelook camera that transitions to another freelook camera, while maintaining the camera interest/aim?

For example, a 3rd person game like Uncharted uses a different camera composition for movement vs aiming down sights cameras. When you transition to one and back, the reticle scsreen position aims at the same world position, yet they are both freelook style cameras.

Do you think such a thing is possible with cinemachine currently?

Thanks!

 

It's possible. We've had many freelooks blending based on character animation, position in the world, weapon use, etc.

Make sure to have Inherit Position checked on:


And make sure each freelook is actually aiming at the same target.

You'll probably want to drive the whole thing with the State Driven Camera module. It allows you to trigger cameras based on animation states and setup custom blending between any two cameras

Take a look at this SDC setup. Animation states call specific FL cameras. There's custom blending into and out of each state/camera, including wildcards **ANY CAMERA**. It's a powerful system which can get very sophisticated, Uncharted level behaviors. Combining this with world triggers - call a close FL when the character goes in a tunnel, etc. - you can build a very polished game camera setup

 

Thanks for the quick response! The SDC sounds great but perhaps not relevant to this precise problem. I've tried a bunch of settings permutations to do this FreeLook to FreeLook transition and but am still unable to get consistent results without the FreeLook camera settings being nearly identical to one another. Maybe I'm misunderstanding the role of the Look At transform, but it seems like Inherit Position might not be enough for this to work as-is.

Here's a clearer example of the problem I'm trying to solve:

• 3rd person game where you can shoot from the hip.
  • Your reticle is fixed at screen center.
• This screen composition has the character fully in frame somewhere between the left 3rd and center.
• You can hold the left trigger to aim down the sights of your weapon.
  • When you do this aim the reticle in screen center remains aiming at the exact 3D position as the hip aim, but the composition relative to the character changes.
• This aiming composition now has the camera much closer and is zoomed in, the character is hard on the left 3rd, and his neck is down on the bottom third so you can only see his head and the top of his upper torso.

I've been using the Look At at a point somewhere around the character's head and the Follow at the base of the character - the same transforms for both cameras.

I think the system would need to know the aim world position for consistency, but building that into the Look At point would fight the FreeLook controls, if I am understanding it correctly.

Thoughts?

 

Hi,
I've encountered the exact same problem...
I couldn't make the camera align properly - what can I do to make the Axis control still update even when it not prioritized?

 

Can someone please explain point 1 of above. I am new to unity and cinemachine. This issue is killing me for weeks! Is there a new way to do this now?