Resolved Recenter to target heading when button is pressed

Hello!

I started to use Cinemachine and I want to know if there's a way to make the camera recenter to target when, for example, the spacebar is pressed. What I mean is make the same thing the option "Recenter to target heading" does, but when a key is pressed.

What I thought is to make a call to the method that's called when "Recenter to target heading" is enabled, so I've been searching in the Cinemachine scripts and what I got so far is to, indeed recenter the camera but only when I keep pressed the button, when I release the spacebar the camera movement stops in place.

I just added a condition inside AxisState.cs that checks if the spacebar is pushed:

Code (CSharp):

1. public void DoRecentering(ref AxisState axis, float deltaTime, float recenterTarget)
2.             {
3.                 if (Input.GetButton("RecenterCamera")) {
4.                     if (!m_enabled && deltaTime >= 0)
5.                         return;
6.  
7.                     recenterTarget = axis.ClampValue(recenterTarget);
8.                     if (deltaTime < 0)
9.                     {
10.                         CancelRecentering();
11.                         if (m_enabled)
12.                             axis.Value = recenterTarget;
13.                         return;
14.                     }
15.  
16.                     float v = axis.ClampValue(axis.Value);
17.                     float delta = recenterTarget - v;
18.                     if (delta == 0)
19.                         return;
20.  
21.                     if (CinemachineCore.CurrentTime < (mLastAxisInputTime + m_WaitTime))
22.                         return;
23.  
24.                     // Determine the direction
25.                     float r = axis.m_MaxValue - axis.m_MinValue;
26.                     if (axis.m_Wrap && Mathf.Abs(delta) > r * 0.5f)
27.                         v += Mathf.Sign(recenterTarget - v) * r;
28.  
29.                     // Damp our way there
30.                     if (m_RecenteringTime < 0.001f)
31.                         v = recenterTarget;
32.                     else
33.                         v = Mathf.SmoothDamp(
34.                             v, recenterTarget, ref mRecenteringVelocity,
35.                             m_RecenteringTime, 9999, deltaTime);
36.                     axis.Value = axis.ClampValue(v);
37.                 }
38.             }

I know it maybe not be the correct place to put that condition. I'm pretty new to Unity, just used to make avatars on vrchat and I tried to make a Visual Novel while ago, so I'm not very experienced with how code works. Sorry for my english too, I'm not a native speaker.

Thanks in advance!

 

Thanks for your quick answer!

Yup, at first I thought that I should create a new script and manage that variable there, but I couldn't get access to that variable (I don't really know how). How can I set that variable? I have a GameObject with the FreeLook camera on it, but I have no clue on how to get it on code. Getting the component of that GameObject gives me this error:


This is what I tried to do:

Code (CSharp):

1. GameObject PlayerCameraPC = GameObject.Find("PlayerCameraPC");
2.         AxisState axis = PlayerCameraPC.GetComponentInParent<AxisState>();
3.         axis.m_Recentering.m_enabled = true;

Thanks in advance, and sorry for the newbie question, I'm just starting on this field!

 

Hello again!

This morning I was trying out your code and now everything is working! I finally understood how the GetComponent works and I could recenter everything perfectly (the X and Y, because I noted that the RecenterToTargetHeading was just recentering the X axis).

With a bit of work I added too that conditions, and everything is working fine. Maybe is not as smooth as it should, but for me is a great start.

Thanks a lot for your help!!

 

Heya, just wondering if you might be able to share your final code on this? I have been trying to get the FreeLook camera to re-centre behind the player on button press as well and just cant get it to work! Would really appreciate it if you could share your work!

 

Hey Meguchi, I have a (eh, it works) solution implemented...though I'm looking for something a little better.
Using new Unity's new input manager to fire UnityEvents on some button press to recenter the camera:

Code (CSharp):

1. public void OnCenterCamera(InputAction.CallbackContext context)
2.     {
3.          _camera.m_RecenterToTargetHeading.m_enabled = true;
4.         _camera.m_YAxisRecentering.m_enabled = true;
5.         // Disable the camera centering after it completes
6.         // so it doesn't stay locked
7.         // Multiply the completion timeout for some padding
8.         int completionTimeout = (int) _camera.m_RecenterToTargetHeading.m_RecenteringTime * 1000; // 0.25 *1000
9.            Task.Delay(completionTimeout * 2).ContinueWith(t => {
10.             _camera.m_RecenterToTargetHeading.m_enabled = false;
11.             _camera.m_YAxisRecentering.m_enabled = false;
12.         });
13.     }

Main issue is completionTimeout (m_RecenteringTime) is more of a max speed from what I've gathered rather than the actual time it takes to smoothly transition the camera'a position to its "centered" state.

 

Could you elaborate?
I tried creating my own recentering functionality by caching the starting m_XAxis, and m_YAxis values, then lerping back to them when the player presses a button, but because those aren't consistent, as the objective my camera is to snap directly behind my player, that idea didn't go very far. I'm not sure I see which values always correspond to whether or not a FreeLook camera's centered to the target heading.