Smart camera framing

Hello forum !!

So, what I'm trying to do is this: I have a scene with 2 objects in an arena and the camera is top down view.
The camera is framing the center of the arena so that the border are on the borders.
What I would like to do is having a smart camera that will decide to follow one of the object zooming in (in my case I'm moving the Z axis of the camera but I don't mind playing with the FOV) in a way that both of the object are still framed. The closer the object are, bigger is the zoom.
Of course the max zoom has a limit as well as the min one.
This is the tricky part: because I don't want the camera to follow the object so that the frustrum will go off the borders, what I would like to do is to stop following the object and zoom out to the fixed arena center view.

Is it possible to do this with Cinemachine?

Please note that the game will never stop while these transitions happens.

Cheers !!

 

Try Cinemachine Target Group.

 

Thanks for the replies guys!!

I'll have a look and see what I can do.

 

Sorry Gregoryl, but I cannot find 2DCamera and CinemachineConfiner in my project. I did download the Cinemachine package 2.0.1. Are those component present in this version?

 

It's in the latest beta version here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BwhlqkMsERx4VzZoMUFMa2xQR28

 

Cheers. I'll give it a go !!

 

Hello again.
So, I think that Cinemachine is not allowing me to do what I want if I use a TargetGroup.
Please, let me explain better what I'm trying to do.
There is an arena with a player object and an interactable object.

Let's forget about the arena bouds for a moment.
What I would like to achieve is to have the camera following the player object (so that the player object is always on the center of the screen) but adjusting the camera distance (or FOV) in such a way that the interactable will also be on screen. What Cinemachine is allowing me to do, is to frame both the object perfectly BUT in an average position (based on the weights I set in TargetGroup) in between the 2 objects. This means that I won't have the player object always in the middle.

As I said before, let's forget about the arena constraints for now. My question is: can I do this simply using Cinemachine?

Tahnks

 

You are so crazy

 

@Gregoryl

Ehi, thanks for the reply !!!
Actually I did solve by using the 2D components. It wasn't exactly what I wanted but I managed to have a satisfying result.
Anyway, as soon as I will be back to that part of the project, I'll try also your solution !! ;-)

Thanks a bunch again !!!

 

This post saved my life

 

Actually I have another question.

For a 3rd person camera... how can I, using the group composer, always ensure my player is on screen at a close range? Doesn't necessarily need to be centered. But always has to remain on screen without the camera moving back too far no matter what.

I also want the group composer to attempt to look at other targets as well. But the player has to be on screen.

What I'm finding is, I have to increase the max distance quite a bit, which is moving the camera out quite far away from the player in order to frame everything. Seems like the group composer is overriding the transposer. No matter what my transposer offset is, the group composer takes control. What I'd love is the group composer to just look at targets and not move

 

I can't show screenshots, but might be able to make a video later with a test project.

The camera's goal is to stay behind the player, looking in the direction the player is facing. Classic 3rd person camera.

Player will encounter enemies, some static, some moving, some big, some small. These enemies, along with the player, are part of the Target groups target list.

I'd like the camera to maintain a relatively close distance to the player, while also preserving the heading of the player and also attempt to look at close enemies. Or, enemies that *could* be framed without breaking the composition too much (staying close behind the player and maintaining heading).

I totally understand the group composer tries to frame everything, even things behind the player and has limits. That's all good. I guess the issue I'm having are with these limits. I'm limiting the max distance so vcam stays close. But as a result, when framing other objects, the player gets lost because the group center (or average) is far beyond the max distance. So vcam is moving to that position, or attempting to frame it.

Anyway, I think I've found a middle ground...

Assign the player to the "follow" target. Assign group to "look" target. Set player weight and radius larger than all other targets. Blend out other targets weight based on some "max distance" variable. It's working fine, the camera does pull out a little more than I'd like too, but it's fine.

I'm sure there's an elegant mathematical solution out there. Something like evaluating the framing shot of a target and adjusting its weight based on some priority value. But anyway. Thanks for the help.

 

Informative! This thread is very interesting. I hope to learn more about cinemachine troubleshooting from this forum.