Official New version of Cinemachine 3 pre-release 5 available

Nice update, but try not changing things like going to Unity.Cinemachine for no real benefit other than consistency.
It should have happened in the beginning not now that many tools have it integrated.

 

I'm here to disagree with the notion to not to make breaking changes. Please do whenever you deem it necessary as long as it happens on major version change. Whoever don't like the changes they can stay on the previous major version until they can schedule the proper upgrade. So a great yay from me!
Hope other teams at Unity as well finally embrace the necessary changes.

 

It's a major change, that allows for breaking changes: https://semver.org
Besides that's by far the least breaking change of the bunch. They renamed a lot of classes and variables for that same consistency.
If you're using Unity Events or other Reflection based tools to steer Cinemachine you'll have to reconfigure all of those.

I, for one, am extremely happy about this change, it shows a positive direction for the engine, striving for a more unified ecosystem and better cross-compatibility among separate packages. I.e. the Splines package integration, better Input System integration, making their samples work with all Render Pipelines, and if you look at the roadmap they're even looking into proper Visual Scripting Integration, which is a boon even if you're using something like PlayMaker.

Now is the perfect time for any such changes, since it's a major version anyways, and thus will break existing stuff it's better to bite the bullet and do all consistency changes in one go.

Thanks, Unity Team! I'm excited to try out the renewed Cinemachine!

 

I disagree, this is also why it's a major revision. It is a breaking change for sure, but i rather it get done now than in the year 2030. I hope they do TMPro next.

 

If it can auto update all scripts that would be nice. (With unity script updater)

 

Hi! Great release! Here a small list of UX bugs/suggestions i got after playing with this version a bit:
1)There's a strange texture that appears over lens category after going in and out of playmode while cinemachine camera is selected in inspector

2)Lens preset dropdown has a separator line on the top for some reason

3)"None" is lowercase for some reason. Unity's standard is always uppercase for elements in dropdown

4) Would be good to have "Add extension" field as button instead of dropdown. Similar to how it's done in volume editor:

That's all for now, thanks for your hard work and passion!

 

Install instructions are wrong, don't work.

1. Download latest 2022LTS - 2022.3.13
2. Attempt to install from package manager: FAIL. UPM will only offer 2.9.7 latest
3. Guess: you forgot to include the required step of 'must un-hide pre-release packages'. Unhide pre-release packages, reload UPM. - https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-PackageManager.html#advanced_preview
4. FAIL: still no version higher than 2.9.7 is offered.

Is it CM that's been broken?

Or UPM?

Or Unity's LTS release?

 

FYI: That page is neither in the current docs (3.0.0-pre9 on the website) nor in the individual release notes I checked (several of the "-pre" release notes on this forum). I'm not sure what instructions you expect people to follow?

I got it to work by editing the manifest. I note that even in the release notes (only a few) that say we have to edit the manifest, they ... for some reason decide not to say "what" you need to edit it to. (for other readers: you have to type the full version string BUT you have to insert an extra period after the string "pre" to satisfy Unity's package system, e.g. the current manifest string is: "com.unity.cinemachine": "3.0.0-pre.9" )

 

I just tried again from scratch - previously I didn't see the 'version' field, I typed the 'name' that was listed in instructions, expected to be given a choice of versions. I was indeed given a choice after hitting Enter - but only of 2.9.7. One of the pre-release instructions I believe just says "type the name" and gives the "com.unity.cinemachine" string (or maybe I *Also* misread that one).

I see now (with the help of your other thread with screenshot) that there's an extra field beneath the 'name' field (I could have sworn it wasn't there before, but more likely: it was always there and I just didn't notice it before, since it's dark-gray-on-dark-gray-background, until I knew to look for it).

Sigh. Thanks for the screenshot - agreed this isn't a CM specific problem ... but still A) I feel that should be in the docs or a link given to how to add 'pre' packages (I couldn't find one in the main Unity docs on quick look - but there should be a shared link somewhere for it), and B) why not include the manifest text so people can just do this directly?

(Agreed that UPM is still half-thought-out rubbish design. Given that the way UPM works everywhere else is "choose package. Then see list of versions" this UI is embarassingly bad)