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Top Down Camera and world-relative directions of the character

Discussion in 'Cinemachine' started by PekoLin, Dec 1, 2018.

  1. PekoLin

    PekoLin

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    Hi everyone,
    I have been trying to use Cinemachine and Unity-Standard Package to make some experimental game..since I have very limited coding experience, this might be a super beginner question for you. But I hope you guys can help me..thank you! (and apologize for my english..)

    So I am using the Third person user control from standard package, and now I set the player's camera in Timeline, with first simple follow v-camera and than switch to top down v-camera, while the character is running.

    But every time when the camera switch to top down, the player started to running opposite (so W become S).

    I checked the code, but can only guess is the problem of world-relative direction..but I don't know how to fix it. Although, I wasn't sure if this is because of the player control or the cinemachine. Hope anyone here can guild me a way, thank you!


    Code (CSharp):
    1. // read inputs
    2.             float h = CrossPlatformInputManager.GetAxis("Horizontal");
    3.             float v = CrossPlatformInputManager.GetAxis("Vertical");
    4.             bool crouch = Input.GetKey(KeyCode.C);
    5.  
    6.  
    7.             // calculate move direction to pass to character
    8.             if (m_Cam != null)
    9.             {
    10.                 // calculate camera relative direction to move:
    11.                 m_CamForward = Vector3.Scale(m_Cam.forward, new Vector3(1, 0, 1)).normalized;
    12.                 m_Move = v*m_CamForward + h*m_Cam.right;
    13.             }
    14.             else
    15.             {
    16.                 // we use world-relative directions in the case of no main camera
    17.                 m_Move = v*Vector3.back + h*Vector3.right;
    18.             }
     
  2. Gregoryl

    Gregoryl

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    I assume that in your case m_Cam != null.
    When you say top-down, is the camera really pointing down, or is it at an angle?
    If it's really down, then you will not be able to determine an accurate direction in line 11. That would explain the problem you're describing.
     
  3. PekoLin

    PekoLin

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    Thank you for your reply,
    I actually simply rotate the camera to have top down perspective, is there another way to do it?
    (Like the world up override will do, but I didn't want to have top down the whole time)
     
  4. Gregoryl

    Gregoryl

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    You don't need the world up override, rotating the vcam is fine.

    However, if you rotate the vcam 90 degrees so that it's pointing straight down, your method for calculating motion forward will fail. That's just a consequence of the math. To fix it, use less than 90 degrees, say 80.