Question How to smoothly slow down virtual camera before hitting a confiner

I am building a platformer game and I am working on the general camera movement right now. I am using Cinemachines with confiners, In order to confine the camera from moving beyond boundaries when the player is near a wall.

However, I don't want the confiners to be absolute and stop the camera right away. I am interested in a little slow down of the camera before hitting the confiner (like celeste and hollow knight).

I could use damping in the Confiner component, however the damping is pushing the camera back from the confiner after "absorbing" it to it's maximum.

Does anyone have any Idea how to create this feature? I have spent my whole day trying to figure it out...

 

Wow very nice! I will wait for this feature to be added in a newer cinemachine version then. I will try to add a substitution code for the meantime as well.
Thanks for saving me again

 

I requested this feature in another thread some time ago, so I would be interested in this as well.
If it's of any help, as for reference, the unity asset "Pro Camera 2D" has an implementation of this, called Soft Boundaries:
http://www.procamera2d.com/user-guide/extension-numeric-boundaries/

 

Not holding my breath, but still interested in this feature.

 

Very nice! I upgraded to CM3 today and it went smoothly and it looks so much easier to work with.
If I could give some feedback on the Confiner slowing functionality:

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It works great in most cases, but in some cases, it's a bit simplistic to just slow down the current direction it's going in. For example a top-down game:
- You get close to a wall walking left, but then change to walk up-left, There is a jump in speed of the slowdown since the distance is now greater because of the diagonal movement.
- When close to a corner and walking in random directions, the slowdown can get a bit crazy because of the frequent changes of direction, and with that, the distance changes frequently.

I tweaked the functionality to check all 4 directions (doing a top-down game, so skipping depth) and just use the lowest for each axis. This seems to work well, and as a bonus moving away also was soft.

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I'm not sure, but it seems like the slowing down is framerate-dependent. I got significantly longer/smoother slowdowns when I tried with low fps.

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Speaking of the confiner3D, it would be great if it would support confining the camera edges/frustum. I know it was suggested before but it's a bit tricky with perspective cameras. But could it not work by allowing for setting a distance on the frustum that would be confined? (also please check if it's an orto camera)
Again, I've already added this myself - I think I found an old script in the forums that did this and so far I can't see any downsides (been using the script for 2+ years)

Thanks!