Set Rotation of Cinemachine Freelook Camera

Hi!

I'm using Cinemachine Freelook Camera and it works nice, but at some points in the game I want to set rotation of the camera from code. How can I do that? I couldn't find any method that does that.

 

Thanks for a quick answer! I want to keep LookAt and Follow as is, so still looking at my player. I just want to change the angle the camera is looking from, just like if player would rotate it manually using gamepad. I know I can create another virtual camera and blend to it, which is an ok solution, but require too much setup for easy situations, e.g. Player is entering the lift. He's gonna move down on this lift, but this means that camera will go into wall on one side. So I want to do a tiny cutscene where I change the camera angle, then when I release player's controls I want him the Camera to start in this angle I set, not go back to an angle he had when he entered the lift. Of course he can move his camera as before, but at least he got this "suggested" angle that is not blocked by obstacles.

Another thing that could fix this and other problems is if I could make Collider Extension work by only changing angles, becuase right now it goes into walls and close to the player instead of just rotating to find a nice angle.

 

It looks like it might be it, but one more thing - if I set m_XAxis.Value to 90 is it change angle by 90 or set angle as 90?

 

Simple Follow With World Up. Although now I've tested WorldSpace, and it seems to be working the same, just reacting differently to setting the axis

 

Hi there, sorry to revive this thread so late but I've got a similar concern and a followup.

I want to rotate the freelook cam 90 degrees on a button press (Q or E), smoothly.

1) The following is what I think you were describing above and does seem to work, but I'm new to Unity/C# so does this look right?

Code (CSharp):

1. public class CamRotationCinemachineExtension : CinemachineExtension
2. {
3.  
4.     private void Update()
5.     {
6.         float rotationDelta = Input.GetAxis("Rotation");
7.         if (rotationDelta == 0f) return;
8.  
9.         AdjustRotation(rotationDelta);
10.     }
11.  
12.     ...
13.    
14.     private void AdjustRotation (float delta)
15.     {
16.         float angle = delta > 0 ? 90f : -90f;
17.         ((CinemachineFreeLook) VirtualCamera).m_XAxis.Value += angle;
18.     }
19. }

2) This immediately changes the camera rotation, whereas I want a smoothed transition (ease in, ease out). Is there an API I can leverage so that the transition uses the `Acccel Time` and `Decel Time` values set in the Unity editor? Or is that something I should implement myself in code? I'll explore the API a little more and then go with the latter if I don't hear back.

Thanks!

 

Great, thanks very much for the quick reply!

 

Hm, now I'm confused by

Mathf.SmoothDampAngle

's behavior.

Initially, it does move towards the target value by progressively larger steps on each invocation - that's fine and good. But the size of the steps continue to increase so that the target value is passed, rather than decreasing as the target is approached.

Apologies for WIP code:

Code (CSharp):

1. using System;
2. using Cinemachine;
3. using UnityEngine;
4.  
5. public class CamRotationCinemachineExtension : CinemachineExtension
6. {
7.     private enum RotationDirection
8.     {
9.         None,
10.         Left,
11.         Right,
12.     }
13.  
14.     private struct RotationRequest
15.     {
16.         public RotationDirection Direction;
17.         public float TargetRotation;
18.         public bool Complete;
19.     }
20.  
21.     private RotationRequest _rotationRequest;
22.     private float _rotationVelocity = 0f;
23.     private CinemachineFreeLook _vCam;
24.  
25.     public float smoothTime = 0.3f;
26.     public float maxSpeed = 10f;
27.  
28.     protected override void PostPipelineStageCallback(CinemachineVirtualCameraBase vcam, CinemachineCore.Stage stage,
29.         ref CameraState state, float deltaTime)
30.     {
31.         _vCam = (CinemachineFreeLook) VirtualCamera;
32.     }
33.  
34.     private void Update()
35.     {
36.         AdjustRotation(Input.GetAxisRaw("Rotation"));
37.     }
38.  
39.     private void AdjustRotation(float delta)
40.     {
41.         RotationDirection direction = delta == 0f ? RotationDirection.None :
42.             delta > 0f ? RotationDirection.Right : RotationDirection.Left;
43.  
44.         bool isRotationDone = _rotationRequest.Complete && direction == RotationDirection.None;
45.         if (isRotationDone)
46.         {
47.             if (_rotationRequest.Direction == RotationDirection.None) return;
48.  
49.             _rotationRequest = new RotationRequest {Direction = direction, TargetRotation = 0f, Complete = true};
50.             return;
51.         }
52.  
53.         bool isNewRotationRequest =
54.             direction != _rotationRequest.Direction && direction != RotationDirection.None;
55.         if (isNewRotationRequest)
56.         {
57.             float rotation = direction == RotationDirection.Right ? -90f : 90f;
58.             float targetRotation = _vCam.m_XAxis.Value + rotation;
59.             _rotationRequest = new RotationRequest
60.                 {Direction = direction, TargetRotation = targetRotation, Complete = false};
61.         }
62.  
63.         AdjustRotation();
64.     }
65.  
66.     private void AdjustRotation()
67.     {
68.         float dampenedRotation =
69.             Mathf.SmoothDampAngle(_vCam.m_XAxis.Value, _rotationRequest.TargetRotation, ref _rotationVelocity,
70.                 smoothTime, maxSpeed);
71.         _vCam.m_XAxis.Value += dampenedRotation;
72.         _rotationRequest.Complete = Math.Abs(_vCam.m_XAxis.Value - _rotationRequest.TargetRotation) < 1f;
73.     }
74. }

Probably I'm making some rookie mistake, but I can't see it in the docs/code yet. I've tried playing with

smoothTime

and

maxSpeed

with no success. Any ideas?

EDIT: wordsmithing