"Using Cinemachine;" not recognized.

I need to access some properties on a CinemachineFreeLook Camer but, Visual Studio does not recognize "Cinemachine" as a valid namespace. My game has the CM FreeLook in place in the scene and it works fine, but it is not accessible at all on Visual Studio.
Anyone had this issue before?

 

I'm having this issue while trying to figure out how to change freelook deadzones. I'm not entirely sure what to do. Does it work with monodevelop?

 

I'm not OP but I gave it a try in a new project, and it seems to actually recognize it in the new one.

In the one I'm trying to use it in, it says "using directive is unnecessary" along with the usual "
The type or namespace name could not be found" error.

https://i.imgur.com/eUjamK8.png

 

I'm currently using 2018.1.5f1. Restarting did not help, but it did get rid of one of the two "The type or namespace name could not be found" errors, which is strange to begin with.

 

It technically ""helped"" but not to where I can reference things. https://i.imgur.com/whdbeXs.png

I think it was just a visual error. Not sure why it works in the empty project and not in this one

 

I clicked the install button from Chrome, which opened it in Unity and I installed it from there. I installed it soon after updating to 2018.1.5f1, which was a few days ago
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/essentials/cinemachine-79898

 

Unfortunately, it didn't work. Cinemachine is now updated from the package manager, and it updated with the cameras that were present in my scenes, but it didn't allow me to use "using Cinemachine;"

 

I'll give this a try. This won't damage my project?

I'm reinstalling VS as well to see if that does anything

 

Managed to fix it. Just uninstalling/reinstalling Visual Studio or updating Visual Studio fixes the issue.

 

Hi, Is there a way that I can pause input to the virtual POV camera when locked in to an animation through code? And then resume input after animation has played?

 

Late to the party, but I just had this error happen to me.

My solution that fixed it:

• Close VS and Unity
• Delete the .sln solution file and C# project files from your project folder. I also deleted my hidden .vs folder. Not sure which of these were necessary to delete.
• Reopen Unity and VS as usual. Cinemachine reference should now be working as expected

 

Also had this happen, I followed the suggestion above to delete the SLN and project files, but they weren't being regenerated afterwards. It turned out the issue was a setting in preferences had changed of its own accord, to fix go to Edit > Preferences > External Tools and change the first drop down from "Open by file extension" to "Visual Studio...".

After this everything is working fine again

 

I am having this same error. None of these recommendations solved my problem

 

Yeah I also have the same problem, in 2019.4.14f1 unity and Cinemachine 2.6.3.

My problem is that unity doesn't seem to generate any csproj for cinemachine, and thus the .sln doesnt have any references. If I manually delete the .sln, .csproj and the .vs and .vscode folders, unity continues to give the same error, both before and after regenerating files.

Any thoughts?

 

I solved my issue by deleting:
.vs, .vscode, .sln, .csproj, Library and most importantly the Obj folder.

Then suddenly after re-opening the project cinemachine showed up in the unity main menu and correctly integrated with visual studio.

 

Maybe a bit late to the party, but I ran into the same issue and I solved it by doing a hybrid solution already mentioned here, but with one more added thing:

1. Be sure your VS is closed.
2. In Unity go to Edit > Preferences > External Tools and change from whatever option you have at the moment and then back to Visual Studio you are using.
3. In the same window, underneath the "Generate .csproj files" checkboxes you will find a button "Regenerate Project Files", click it and wait for Unity to do its thing.
4. Fire up VS and for me, it worked again.

Hope this helps someone.

 

This works for me！ Thanks!

 

None of the aforementioned methods have worked. I cant get to use Cinemachine on code, the using directive doesn't work. Note:
- Creating a new Unity Project, "using Cinemachine;" works.

But on my current project, I can't get the IDE to make "using Cinemachine;" work. I tried:
- Delete and regenerate VS files, including: obj and Library folders, all .sln files, .csproj files, .vs and .vscode hidden folders.
- Switching external tools.
- Uninstalling and reinstalling Cinemachine through the Package Manager.
- Reinstalling Visual Studio.

Basically I've tried every approach this thread offers. Can't find anything else on the internet.
Anyone have any idea of what else I could try?

Edit: Its IDE independent, as I've tried with VSCode and it still doesn't work.

Edit2: I found the solution, seen in this thread: https://forum.unity.com/threads/hel...-cinemachine-and-my-defined-assembly.1161038/

 

This helped me, thank you!

 

It's working
Thank you ♥

 

Same issue, same solution, thanks!

 

If you have tried any of the upper solutions but still did not work like me, try this: (I'm using unity 2020.3.12f1)

- Delete all the .csproj files along with your project .sln file (vs code closed or any other IDE you using)
- In unity go Edit > Preferences > External Tools https://ibb.co/RbGK7F9
- Check any of the checkbox that when you "Regenerate Project Files", it only generates Assembly-CSharp.csproj file (for me, I use git clone project so I check "git packages")
- Click "Regenerate Project Files" and open up vs code to check

 

For people who haven't succeeded yet, for me the problem was that I downloaded cinemachine with VS open. Despite relaunching unity and VS nothing to do so I quit VS and reinstall Cinemachine and everything was working as it should!

 

I've just solved this problem. Make a cinemachine camera in the hierarachy, and make a script attached to it. And open the script and add 'using Cinemachine;' to the top of the script as usual. Then, the red lines(error) of other scripts have just disappeared suddenly. Idk why. Surely you need to import cinemachin package first.

 

Apparently, unity does not like to include external packages by default... grrrr.... snap

 

I solved the issue by simply updating Visual Studio 22 community edition to the latest version then restarting Unity

 

This worked like charm
Just close the code editor , Regenerate Project Files, Re open the code editor!

 

just make a new script

 

the script wont recognize cinemashine if you added it after making the script

 

Hi hope this might help someone. I recently followed a tutorial where the instructor created a assembly definition in the scripts folder. This helps speed up build times because unity just builds the scripts included in that folder and sub folders instead of rebuilding the entire project including the imported packages, like Cinemachine. I may be off on the technical details , so please correct me if you can.
I ran into the same issue as the op where the script could not reference Cinemachine. I thought it might be the assembly definition , so I looked at its properties and found the Assembly Definition References Section. Here I ticked the "Use GUIDs" box and added all the cinemachine references listed. Worked.

Let me know if it works for you or if you have a good understanding of this system, write a little something to clarify for the rest of us.
Meanwhile I am off to go read the rest of the documentation on assembly definitions.

 

ty

 

this worked!!

 

I hit this exact situation (unity 2021.3.10f1, vs2019 up-to-date with today's patches). Closing Unity and VS2019 then opening up again fixed it.
Seems like it might well be the 'cache problem' that was mentioned right at the start of this thread back in 2018.
Progress... what's that?

 

The link provided in this replay worked for me ! thanks !!

 

the problem that i found in my case that am using an assembly definition that doesn't contain a cinemachine , so i have to add cinemachine in version defines