Switch camera if player is on sight

Hi !

I'm trying to do (what I think) a simple behvaiour with Cinemachine. I have multiples camera in my scene, some are static, some are on a dolly track.

I want them to go live if the player is seen by the camera. If there's multiple camera that see the player, the priority of each cam decide which of them is rendering.

I tried to play with "Clear Shot" component, and Virtual Camera Collider, but it seems that there's only a decision "by distance", and not "if it's on sight".

Is there a way to achieve this ?
Other question : If there's no Cinemachine behaviour that can do that, can I control which virtual cam is live in code ? I didn't find any function in doc that (I can do the camera manager myself, just don't want to lose all the magic blend, etc).

Thank you !

 

That's exactly what ClearShot is for. This is how I've got mine setup, and it works how I want (when the player dies cut to the camera that can see the player): https://gyazo.com/6fae6b7ccc3e10c426ee2ab07d8abf6b

 

Oh yes, actually I didn't managed it without have "Camera zone" where I have to disable / enable some camera when entering a zone. My goal was to have 0 line of code using this but it seems I don't understand perfectly how it works yet.

My situation : I have multiple type of camera on my level. Some are static, some are on a dolly track, and one, the "main", is hard following the player.
The behavior I try to have is :
- If the player is seen by a static OR a dolly tracked camera, the camera with the highest priority go live.
- If the player is not seen by any camera OR by a camera that is too far, the "main" hard following camera go live.

I didn't find a complete tutorial to understand how the Cinemachine Collider works, just the Unity one.

I've seen all the parameters to not have a camera colliding with the wall : I understood, I've seen the parameters to evaluate the optimal distance from the target : I understood.
But I didn't find a parameter like the one called "Preserve light of sight", as I've seen it in old Unity tutorial videos. In fact : When I was trying to play with the optimal distance with a setup of some cameras, but here's the problem I faced :

- I have a room with a static camera
- My player gets outside the room, and a dolly tracked camera starts to follow him outside
- If the player goes too close to the outside wall of the room, the room's camera says "hey ! My optimal distance is better, let's go live !", but the player is not in sight, he's at the other side of the wall.

So I was wondered if "on sight" was done without testing if the player is beyond a wall or something blocking the view ? But since it's called Collider it was clear to me that there was some raycast test to check this case. I've hard time finding answers.

Am i missed something ?

Just to add image to this long post : This is the thing I've accomplished with my "camera zone" system. It will help to understand what type of camera behaviour I'm trying to have without write a single line of code :

Thanks a lot !

 

Thank you. This is the little bit of information I needed to get my cameras set up properly!