Question Smooth transition of two values. Currently glitchy behaviour.

Hello everybody,
does anyone know how to smooth _FreeLook.m_XAxis.m_InputAxisValue from cinemachine?

My goal is to use a blendtree which, depending on how the xAxis value of cinemachine is, is animated more or less strongly. But instead of a smooth transition it jumps because it triggers too precisely, I guess. So if you stop for a millisecond, the player stops for that millisecond as well, which makes the whole thing look glitchy and jumpy.

I have tried Lerp, Smoothstep, SmoothDamp and with repeatinvoke. I have no more ideas.


Currently my code:

Code (CSharp):

1. void MouseHorizontalMovement(){
2.         if((_FreeLook.m_XAxis.m_InputAxisValue > 0.5 || _FreeLook.m_XAxis.m_InputAxisValue < -0.5)){
3.                 animator.SetFloat("Horizontal", Mathf.Lerp(lastXAxis,Mathf.Clamp(_FreeLook.m_XAxis.m_InputAxisValue,-2,2),3f * Time.deltaTime));
4.             }
5.             if(_FreeLook.m_XAxis.m_InputAxisValue == 0){
6.                 animator.SetFloat("Horizontal", Mathf.Lerp(lastXAxis,0,3f * Time.deltaTime));
7.             }
8.             lastXAxis = Mathf.Clamp(_FreeLook.m_XAxis.m_InputAxisValue,-2,2);
9.     }

hSpeed means when there is no input from the keyboard.

Code (CSharp):

1. void Update(){
2.         if(hSpeed == 0){
3.             if((_FreeLook.m_XAxis.m_InputAxisValue > 0.5 || _FreeLook.m_XAxis.m_InputAxisValue < -0.5)){
4.                 animator.SetFloat("Horizontal", Mathf.Lerp(lastXAxis,Mathf.Clamp(_FreeLook.m_XAxis.m_InputAxisValue,-2,2),3f * Time.deltaTime));
5.             }
6.             if(_FreeLook.m_XAxis.m_InputAxisValue == 0){
7.                 animator.SetFloat("Horizontal", Mathf.Lerp(lastXAxis,0,3f * Time.deltaTime));
8.             }
9.             lastXAxis = Mathf.Clamp(_FreeLook.m_XAxis.m_InputAxisValue,-2,2);
10.         }
11.     }

If you want a video to show you what i mean, let me know.

 

Here's a bunch of articles on smoothing:

Lerping to smooth things out:

https://forum.unity.com/threads/side-to-side-movement-rotation.941483/#post-6148016

https://forum.unity.com/threads/need-help-smoothing-out-my-mouse-look-solved.543416/#post-3583643

In the case of input smoothing (implementing your own input filtering):

https://forum.unity.com/threads/how...ative-horizontal-buttons.963033/#post-6271251

https://forum.unity.com/threads/need-simple-rocket-script-like-blast-city.1013560/#post-6569128

 

Hey thanks for your reply. I will have a look

 

Dude i love you.

This link did it perfectly.
https://forum.unity.com/threads/how...ative-horizontal-buttons.963033/#post-6271251

Thank you so much, you saved me a lot of headache.

Code (CSharp):

1. float axis;
2. const float Snappiness = 1f;
3.  
4.  
5. int CameraDirection(){
6.         if(_FreeLook.m_XAxis.m_InputAxisValue  < 0){
7.             return -1;
8.         }
9.         if(_FreeLook.m_XAxis.m_InputAxisValue  > 0){
10.             return 1;
11.         }
12.         return 0;
13.     }
14.  
15. void FixedUpdate(){
16.     float x = CameraDirection();
17.     axis = Mathf.Lerp( axis, x, Snappiness * Time.deltaTime);
18.     animator.SetFloat("Horizontal",axis);
19. }

 

Awesome.