Question How to make a Virtual Cam work nearly identical to Free Look Cam, except ???

Can someone please show an example in Script of how to make a virtual camera work exactly like an orbit free look camera? For some reason with Free look, I can no longer position / rotate the camera to how I want it and that is a problem. I need to be able to give my camera a correct starting position / rotation even when targeting the player.

Thank you!

 

Can someone please help? Much thanks!

 

Hi there, Gregoryl! So what I am trying to do is create a full, SMOOTH Orbit Camera with mouse wheel zoom in / out with a Virtual Camera because no matter what I do, I cannot seem to move / rotate the Free Look Camera to a default starting Position / Rotation. It does what it wants basically & puts it in the same Position / Rotation every time without me being able to specify how I want the Camera 1st Positioned / Rotated when the Game 1st starts.

 

Ok, so a full Camera Orbit has the ability to rotate its' Pitch up to 90.0f degrees, or down to -90.0f degrees. It also can rotate on the Y Axis to -180 & 180 degrees. But when you're looking up at the sky, the Camera should drag smoothly on the Ground towards the player and then stop at a given value. Same thing when looking down at the ground, except it should zoom into the player's head until a given point. Then combine it with Fade nearby objects to create a transparent zoom-like effect. Also, smooth means Interpolate the values so the Camera smoothly stays on course when rotating / positioning to its' point. The zoom part is simple. You are able no matter at what angle to zoom in / out smoothly using the Mousewheel up to a certain value.

 

@Gregoryl Yes

 

So I decided to use 3rdPersonWithAimMode's `Framing Transposer` and it works great. I have combined it with this script I both found on the net & tweaked. Problem is, when I hold down Mouse Button left and drag, the Orbit is not smooth, and when I roll the mouse wheel, zoom is not smooth. So, I have tried to rotate the cameras behind the player, but for some reason I cannot get the cameras to stay behind the Player... Also, when I zoom out and drag the camera across the ground, the camera won't stay above the ground even with a CinemachineCollider as seen in this small video I attached to this post.

Here's the current Script:

Code (CSharp):

1. using System;
2. using System.Collections;
3. using System.Collections.Generic;
4. using UnityEngine;
5. using Cinemachine;
6.  
7. public class CinemachineMouseDown : MonoBehaviour {
8.  
9.     CinemachineVirtualCamera vcam;
10.     CinemachineFramingTransposer framingTransposer;
11.  
12.     [ SerializeField ]
13.     private float startingCameraDistance = 1.0f;
14.  
15.     [ Space ( 5 ) ]
16.  
17.     [ SerializeField ]
18.     private float minCameraDistance = 1.0f;
19.  
20.     [ SerializeField ]
21.     private float maxCameraDistance = 45.0f;
22.  
23.     [ Space ( 10 ) ]
24.  
25.     [ Range ( 0.025f, 1.0f ) ]
26.  
27.     [ SerializeField ]
28.     private float scrollSensitivity = 0.5f;
29.  
30.     public bool negateScrollDirection = false;
31.  
32.     public float maxLookaheadTime = 0.0f;
33.     public float lookaheadAdjusted = 0.0f;
34.  
35.     public void NewCameraDistance ( float adjustedScroll ) {
36.  
37.         if ( negateScrollDirection ) {
38.             framingTransposer.m_CameraDistance = Mathf.Clamp (
39.                 framingTransposer.m_CameraDistance += adjustedScroll,
40.                 minCameraDistance,
41.                 maxCameraDistance
42.             );
43.         }
44.         else {
45.             framingTransposer.m_CameraDistance = Mathf.Clamp (
46.                 framingTransposer.m_CameraDistance -= adjustedScroll,
47.                 minCameraDistance,
48.                 maxCameraDistance
49.             );
50.         }
51.  
52.         if ( maxLookaheadTime == 0 ) { return; }
53.  
54.         lookaheadAdjusted = Mathf.Clamp (
55.             framingTransposer.m_CameraDistance / maxCameraDistance,
56.             0.1f,
57.             maxLookaheadTime
58.         );
59.  
60.         framingTransposer.m_LookaheadTime = lookaheadAdjusted;
61.  
62.     }
63.  
64.     public float GetAxisCustom ( string axisName ) {
65.  
66.         if ( axisName == "Mouse X" ) {
67.             if ( Input.GetMouseButton ( 0 ) ) {
68.                 return UnityEngine.Input.GetAxis ( "Mouse X" );
69.             }
70.             else {
71.                 return 0;
72.             }
73.         }
74.  
75.         if ( axisName == "Mouse Y" ) {
76.             if ( Input.GetMouseButton ( 0 ) ) {
77.                 return UnityEngine.Input.GetAxis ( "Mouse Y" );
78.             }
79.             else {
80.                 return 0;
81.             }
82.         }
83.  
84.         return UnityEngine.Input.GetAxis ( axisName );
85.  
86.     }
87.  
88.     void Start ( ) {
89.  
90.         CinemachineCore.GetInputAxis = GetAxisCustom;
91.  
92.         vcam = GetComponent <CinemachineVirtualCamera> ( );
93.  
94.         framingTransposer = vcam.GetCinemachineComponent <CinemachineFramingTransposer> ( );
95.         framingTransposer.m_CameraDistance = startingCameraDistance;
96.         maxLookaheadTime = framingTransposer.m_LookaheadTime;
97.  
98.     }
99.  
100.     void LateUpdate ( ) {
101.  
102.         if ( Input.mouseScrollDelta.y != 0.0f ) {
103.             var scroll = Input.mouseScrollDelta.y;
104.             var adjustedScroll = scroll * scrollSensitivity;
105.             NewCameraDistance ( adjustedScroll );
106.         }
107.  
108.     }
109.  
110. }

Much thanks!

 

1) Camera should ALWAYS be behind player no matter its' rotation.
2) Movement / rotation should be smooth.
3) Zooming in / out should also be smooth.
4) If you hold down the left mouse button then hold the turn key, it will turn character but not turn the camera until the mouse button is let go. When letting go of the mouse button, the camera smoothly returns to behind it's main position / rotation which is behind the player.
5) if NOT holding mouse button down and turning, camera will turn WITH player smoothly.
6) Camera should NOT be able to go under the landscape when zooming out then holding down left mouse button then dragging the mouse up / down.

I find that the 3rdPersonAimMode Framing Transposer works correctly for the most part except number 1 above and number 6 above.

Does that explain it clearly?

 

Can someone please help?

 

Can someone else help? Gregory is AFK for a few days.

 

???

 

Gregoryl : Are you back brother?

 

@Gregoryl

can you show an example of bringing the GunOrigin object's local rotation to 0 for recentering ?

Much thanks and total appreciation!