Problem: Blending between two cameras with the same lookat target has unexpected behavior.

I have been troubleshooting this for a while and have narrowed down my problem to the following. When blending between two cameras with the same lookat target, the new camera uses its final position(after blend) to calculate the lookat camera rotational values. Now because the new camera starts behind the lookat object and ends infront of it, the camera begins to rotate away from the object in the beginning of the blend turning away from the object.

Hopefully this makes sense let me know if you need more info. Maybe this is the correct behavior in which case is there any way to only blend camera positions while cutting directly to the new(same) lookat target?

Thanks for any help!

 

"Or are you saying that the (static) outgoing vcam is behind the target and the (static) incoming vcam is in front of it?"
Yeah I think this is it.
Here is a bad drawing of the situation.
https://imgur.com/6XynZPi



When vcam2 is enabled I disable vcam1. They both have the same lookat target and then vcam2 starts to rotate away from its lookat target. It will at the end of the blend be looking in the right spot but I lose sight of the projectile for about half a second. So far I've tried setting the other blending options and resetting the lookat target during the blend but it doesn't help.

 

Sure I'll attach a video too.

inspectors, the first photo is vcam2
https://imgur.com/a/0BjS3HJ

EDIT: sorry video was set to private, should work now.

 

The blend on the brain component is set to linear t=1s, and the blend hint is set to none on both cams.

Also, I have follow zoom enabled on vcam2

 

Ok I tried the hardlookat and turning off the other settings and it didn't have an effect. I watched the main camera in the scene view and about halfway through the blend is when it is furthest turned away from the ball. By the end of the blend it turns back. I'll try to use unity recorder I think it can capture scene view video.

"It looks as though the camera starts and end at the same spot."
The cameras are like 3 units apart it's just hard to tell it's moving forward in the video.

 

Here are the screenshots
https://imgur.com/a/kPvcRGk

I am not entirely sure what you mean but the target does shoot up fairly quickly.

 

the first photo in the sequence is square with the ball, i noticed it's kind of hard to tell haha

 

Ok I'll try to be more clear and I can send you a video of the game view if that helps. And thanks for taking time to help, I appreciate it. I put the cameras on the same xy plane and positioned them two units to the right of the ball. The ball just barely stays on the screen and it still pulls to the left, but not as much. It seems to me like the new camera(enabled) is lagging behind the moving target. The soft zone radius is fairly small but maybe there is another setting to keep it on screen?

 

Ok I figured it out. So in the game we have a user input cam and then vcam1 (cam that will be disabled) to show the throwing ball animation followed by the ball follow camera(vcam2, camera being enabled). The problem is that vcam1 was getting disabled in under .25 seconds.. So it was still blending between the user input cam and vcam1(behind user camera) when I enable vcam2. I added in a cut transition between user input and vcam1 and it works now.

vcam0(user input)->vcam1->vcam2 all blending together!

So you can get weird behavior if you enable and disable cameras before a blend has completed is the point I think.

whoops. Sorry, and thanks for helping me figure this out!