Question Smooth camera follow without pixels deforming

Hi,
I have this little game Im working on. It is a top down rpg of some kind and I tried implementing real pixel art, but I came to this graphical issue:
when I moved my character my camera followed smoothly and that caused the pixels from obstacles, tiles, etc. to deform.
I researched a bit, and found out, that the camera needs to be on full int coordinates and you can use a component called "pixel perfect camera".
This worked... but the camera was now "stuttering". With that I mean the coordinate jumps of the full int moving camera were so big, that you noticed the snapping when the camera moved slowly, because then normally it interpolates between two int values. I hope you know what I mean.
There are many games like hyper light drifter, etc. that have smooth camera movement and still havent got this pixel deformation issue.

Do you know any solution or is it simply not possible in unity?

Thanks in advance!

 

theres not 1 simple fix

you will have to research pixel perfect, and take all the steps, unless you do them all perfectly it wont look like you want it

 

yeah I tried to do such things too, but even if I replicated everything I saw in videos or other threads it still wouldnt work. Is this maybe some kind of render pipeline issue?

The video I tried to replicate is:

The thread I read is: https://forum.unity.com/threads/2d-pixel-perfect-with-smooth-camera.906122/

 

my first tip would be dont use cinemachine if you are trying to make pixel perfect the movements are too smooth

if you check the original pixel art games they never did super smooth and subtle camera motions because of of all the sub pixel positions issues

 

Thanks for your ideas!

I think I figured some kind of workaround:

I used no cinemachine as you said and used my old camera follow script (it had the same issues).
Then I applied the pixel perfect component.
This looked very choppy, but I took an example at stardew valley.
If you own or have footage from stardew valley you notice, that the camera is not perfectly on the player, but has very liitle of smoothing.
I applied this kind of smoothing for my game and now the choppyness is (almost) not noticable.

It is not perfect, because Ive seen many devlogs in which people have this "perfect solution" but dont explain it, but it works for now.

 

nice =)

I will give you one last thing to note, stardew valley is not pixel perfect

dont try too hard to get pixel perfect, if you are happy with how stardew valley looks

chasing pixel perfect will just create headaches for you, when almost no one does pixel perfect nowadays

 

Thank you, but Im at this problem for literal days, so I've tried A LOT (including your Ideas). Ive even seen your video "Unity 2D Physics - Per-Frame Simulation Sub-Stepping".

either way, Thanks!

 

yeah, ive got this as my player if you want an overview from it

 

I tried it and doesnt work that well. Can it be, that some project settings or the URP have something to do with the problem?
PS: If we dont come to a solution, Im fine with what I got. As said above I have a rustical solution that works for now.