Smooth camera transition.

Hello to every1!

Im new in the unity, just learning a lot last few days. But as always I need some help.

I created some kind of moving ball game in short. My camera is following player for now, so what I need. I need on start of the game the camera stays top down from my level, and smoothly comes to the player, and contiune following player afterwards. So I guess its code that smoothly transits (lets say) starting camera or default to the player following again. I hope you understood me. Sorry for my bad english!

Greetings and thanks

Kristian

 

You should look for some lerping functions! basically what you need is to linear interpolate (lerp) from one transform to another.
you should add an empty gameobject and put it in the position you want the camera to start (also with the correct rotation), then you can lerp from that transform to the current camera transform that is following the player.
In order to lerp position you can use Vector3.Lerp(transform1.position, transform2.position, lerpCoefficient) while to lerp the rotation you can use Quaternion.Lerp(transform1.rotation, transform2.rotation, lerpCoefficient) and then assign those values to the camera transform.
If at start the lerp coefficient is 0.0, the camera will be in the exact position and rotation of transform1 (your empty gameobject).
You can slowly increase the lerp coefficient during the Update() function and when it will reach 1.0 you will get the position and rotation of transform2.
all values between 0.0 and 1.0 will yield positions and rotations in between the two transforms, giving you that smooth transition that you are looking for.

 

Thanks man, can you write please how code would look like. I understand what I should do but I dont understand how code should be written. Thanks!

 

I did it! Thanks man! Thmubs up!

 

That's awesome! glad I could help