Multiple Cinemachine Brains causes horrible-ness

So I need some guidance in the proper way to use multiple brains. With one brain in the scene Cinemachine functions perfectly. With more than one it freaks out and spins the cameras wildly. I want some cameras to be cuts, some to be blends, but using the blend list relies on the assumption that cameras already existed in the scene and I set up all the blends before hand.

I dynamically create my cutscens / cameras (ala Mass Effect)

My main interest is in using the Cinemachine Track in timeline, which seems to naturally want to have a static reference to the brain. But that reference I don't necessarily know where its going to be at run-time. I really wish Cinemachine and timeline could work together globally alter the blend type. I just don't have the kind of game where everything is static and in one big scene.

Is there no way to use multiple brains on the same layer?

 

Hello,

I think this is what you'll need. It will allow you to bind the brain component of a camera to a cinemachine track. You can use any Camera GO, not just Camera.main.

Code (CSharp):

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2.     PlayableDirector director = gameObject.AddComponent<PlayableDirector>();
3.     TimelineAsset timeline = ScriptableObject.CreateInstance<TimelineAsset>();
4.     director.playableAsset = timeline;
5.     cinemachineTrack = timeline.CreateTrack<CinemachineTrack>(null, "Cinemachine track");
6.     director.SetGenericBinding(cinemachineTrack, Camera.main.GetComponent<CinemachineBrain>());
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ah So i should write a component that looks for all cinemachine tracks under the heirarchy and fills in the brain with the current global brain?

I think the Cinemachine Track is probably overkill for this. I bet im better off just writing custom timeline tracks to alter the global brain's blend modes

would LOVE if a simple track like that existed!

 

interesting.. didn't even realize it was string based! Does it do anything kind of filtering? Can I say.. "anything with CUT in the name" ?

 

so it doesn't seem to be string based. It creates a magic enum out of scene assets. my cameras are all contained under a prefab. So how does it work under the hood? Can i just enter the string somewhere?

 

so heres the issue.. it works only if the cameras are in the scene

so i built this! omg amazing!


then the moment i run the game and those elements aren't in the scene anymore it changes to this




sadly this makes the blend lists useless unless you have cameras ALWAYS in the scene. so you cant do any kind of dynamic stuff with it

 

will code some custom solution i guess

 

ok a good custom solution for this is to make N blend settings for whatever kind of blends you want and then at runtime SET the global brain to these settings



sry its a pic, but basically this works well for "make a cutscene then blend back to gameplay"