New Input Manager Split Screen and Cinemachine

Hi there,

I'm trying to figure out how to combine the new input system manager (with split screen enabled) and Cinemachine.

I linked a camera and a virtual camera in the player prefab, its hierarchy looks like this :

PlayerHolder
-- Player
-- PlayerCamera
-- PlayerVirtualCamera

When the first player joins in, everything is fine, but as soon a the second one enters the game, the virtual camera pans to the second player on both screens.

Is Cinemachine compatible with the new input system? I know that Cinemachine works with split screen, as Unity made a Youtube tutorial about it:

Anyone got it to work?

 

I'm also trying to do a similar thing.
Would be very interested in a solution for this!

 

Hey! What I ended up doing is writing a setup script and change the VM cams and regular cams when a player is joining.

Code (CSharp):

1. using UnityEngine;
2.  
3. public class PlayerManager : MonoBehaviour
4. {
5.     public Camera cam;
6.     public GameObject virtualCam;
7.  
8.     public void Setup(int layer)
9.     {
10.         virtualCam.layer = layer;
11.         var bitMask = (1 << layer)
12.             | (1 << 0)
13.             | (1 << 1)
14.             | (1 << 2)
15.             | (1 << 4)
16.             | (1 << 5)
17.             | (1 << 8);
18.         cam.cullingMask = bitMask;
19.         cam.gameObject.layer = layer;
20.     }
21. }

I keep a List of PlayerInput somewhere in the app (in my case, in a scriptable object) hooked up to Player Input Manager's events, and assign layers based on their index in this list.

 

At the moment, split-screen in Unity is not compatible with Cinemachine. I came across this post looking for a guide to local multiplayer in Unity and then accidentally found the answer to your problem in Unity's new input system documentation.

 

It's not plug and play but we can make it work with a little bit of code, see my answer above.

 

@Northmaen Im interested in your solution but I dont know how to do the event and set it, could you explain?

 

Hey @MarNevGames , events are fired by the buil-in Player Manager, i did not set them. You can just hook your function like you do with UI buttons for example.

 

Hey @Northmaen, your solution just saved me, thank you so much!

 

Thanks for the Code Northmaen! I have a question though. What is camera and virtualCam? is the camera PlayerInput.camera? Then what is virtualCam?

 

Hi there,

as @Northmaen mentioned i implemented the same camera initializer for my local multiplayer, but i still have the same bug.
I also checked the instructions of "monkeykidgc.com"
(https://www.monkeykidgc.com/2020/12...iplayer-using-cinemachine-follow-cameras.html).


My playerPrefab structure :

PlayerParent
- Camera
- Amature
- ThirdPerson Controller
- Cinemachine Cam

Any ideas ?

 

Can you put more screenshots of it please?

 

I know this is 2 years late but this video works wonders!