How to Blend/Switch Between Cinemachine Cameras - Unity Tutorial
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- Опубліковано 30 лип 2024
- How to switch or blend between cameras! This is easily applicable to other use cases where you have certain events that trigger the camera switch; you'd just switch the animator state through code when an event happens or switch the priority of the cameras through code depending on the camera you want to switch to.
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1:14 Blend Settings
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Thank you!! This was very helpful to asign priority to my 5 Virtual Cameras (Re Clasic Cameras style)
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I prefer the priority switching if I have a ton of cameras, and only need to remember what camera I'm on, and what camera I'm switching to. It gets pretty messy, but doesn't require making a state for each and every camera (Especially if I'm creating new cameras and deleting them). Knowing about the animator functionality is really useful though, I can see it being used in conjunction with an character's actual animators, like for a special attack sequence.
Yeah! The animator way is more meant for occasions regarding player animations and such. But you can use the one you prefer 👍
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@samyam haha I had just unpaused your video after fiddling with my code, and the “samyam liked your comment” popped up. I was a bit startled for a moment... “How did she know?...” but then I remembered the comment I left. Hahaha! I am trying to make the StateDriven Cam transition when you enter a certain trigger collider. Do you have a video on that? I love your teaching style!
Not necessarily a video, but basically you can set up a collider in that area and set it to Trigger so the player can pass through, and on your player script you can make a OnTriggerEnter function that either changes the animation state, which goes perfectly with the state driven camera, or changes the priority of a camera, depending on your use case
docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Collider.OnTriggerEnter.html
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I love ur videos! I have a question. If ur learning a new topic in unity, for example when you first learned cinemachine, do you go through and read the documentation or do u have any other methods? Basically, how do you research that topic?
Thanks! Yes I typically look at the documentation first since it usually has all the information I need. If I’m stuck on something I may search up a tutorial to see how someone else did it and get a better idea. Basically Unity documentation and Unity forums are my go to, but it depends for every person :)
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Hi, I have a spaceship and I would like to have two cameras. One over the ship ald another from inside. State driven camera makes strange movements but other cameras are also not appropriate to this aim or do not have option for two child cameras. Is there any solution for that, because your method works and changing camera works fine?
thankyou!
I have a lock on system. I want to switch to 2nd camera only if a target has been found, not when I press the lock button. How can I do this through script? Thanks again
Unfortunately this wont work for what i am doing because i want the Vcam for cutscene to be in a different prefab than the player prefab with the default vcam. in otherwords i cannpt put them both as a child of a state-driven camera
Actually, I didn't understand why we created that custom blend in the beginning... Cuz Im not sure where we use it?
i think its so the cinemachine brain understands how you want to move from camera to camera, so when it does sense a change that a camera is moving to another, it moves in whatever way you set it up
pls bro tell me how to make a ui button that when we press and hold it the camera rotates backward and shows back of the car and when we un press it it goes to its original position i want it for my car controller pls help
I had one more question! :) if I wanted to make more camera switches with more cameras so I can have other key presses change different cameras how can I add to this to make this possible? Great video btw. It’s a huge help!
Did you find a solution for this?
Thanks for the tutorial. Just curious, what would you change/add if you wanted to cycle through 3 cameras?
Is there a way to either cycle through all available cameras, or to have different buttons switch to different cameras?
I’d personally use the state machine camera and the animator for more than 2 cameras. You can switch to a camera via script, doesn’t have to be bound to a button press
Is it okay if I will use cinemachine brain for 3 cameras to switch between them by scene, not by the clicking button?
I like this tutorial, but how would I do this without using the new Input System? I just can't use it. I've tried but it's simply not my thing
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Hey can you tell me that how can I change the cameras with a time limit like I want to switch from to another after 30 seconds btw nice explanation 🙌👌
Nice tutorial. I use Playmaker to achieve the same results, so you don't need a state drive camera setup.
Thanks!
Thanks for the video!
I'm trying to switch cameras with a priority change method, but something is not right.
I can see in "CinemachineBrain" component in "Live blend field" that it blends for 5 seconds, as i setted, but transition lasts for 2 seconds, but I want that transition lasts 5 seconds too. Can someone help?
Under the default blend and also in your Custom Blend you can specify the time you want it to last
how would I apply this to switch to a close up camera when my player performs a special attack. Once the special attack is over, I want to automatically switch back to the default camera. Thanks!
If you have an animation for it already you can use the State Driven camera and use that state to activate the new camera and back. If you are using code to change the priority directly you'll have to switch the priority when your animation starts and switch it back when the animation ends.
Thanks! Did you get a chance to test which option is better performance-wise?
No I have not but I think the cost difference should be negligible since ideally you wouldn’t be switching the cameras on every frame
4:03 just wondering, isn't 0 a 'higher' priority than 1?
But how do you do it without pushing a button but rather traveling to a new location?
cameras are not appearing on custom blend settings, what do i do?
I am currently trying to make a third person controller using 2 cameras, where 1 camera is the "aim" camera, and the other is the generic movement camera. One issue I am having is that when the normal camera is enabled and moving around, the aim camera isn't. So when I aim in, it will transition to the spot where the aim camera is (old position) and this isn't desirable, as I want the aim camera and the normal camera to be in line with each other at all times. Do you know a good way of doing this?
If blending between the different cinemachine camera's has a large position offset, try the following:
*Cinemachine Virtual Camera > Transition > Inherit Position
// will inherit from the previous camera’s position
@@samyam Oh my god, this worked perfectly. Thank you so much. I took a shot in the dark here and this was just what I needed.
Hello I keep getting an error that says "Assets\CamSwitcher1.cs(18,18): error CS0102: The type 'CamSwitcher1' already contains a definition for 'vcam1' "
any Idea how to fix this. I'm trying to change the Priority of the cameras.
Hm have you declared vcam1 twice in that class?
Thank you got it fixed now
Thanks for your video. But when using the first method, i meet a error: InvalidOperationException: You are trying to read Input using the UnityEngine.Input class, but you have switched active Input handling to Input System package in Player Settings.Cinemachine.AxisState.Update (System.Single deltaTime). I am sure that i did the same thing as that in video. Does anyone have a solution?
when i click space, the error occurs.😩
It means you are using both the old and new input system and you only have one enabled in your project settings (Project Settings>Player>Active Input Handling). Make sure you are using the Cinemachine Input Provider and if you are using UI to replace the Input Module to use the New Input System.
hi sorry i don't understand how it could work with more camera, and why we should use Input System (which complicates the task for me)
i need to switch between 4 cameras around the player and i have 2 button to switch camera (one to the left and one to the right)
Should i use Switch Priority part ?
The input system isn’t mandatory, I just use it because I like it and use the new input system in all my videos. You can add more cameras to the state machine cinemachine object and switch between them depending on a certain condition. If you have more cameras you should rework the Switch Priority depending on the condition you’d like to be met to switch to a certain camera. I’d honestly use the animator and have a state machine driven system if you have multiple cameras, depending on the state you switch to that animation and the cinemachine state driven camera will switch to that camera.
@@samyam ok thank you for your answer 👍
@@samyam I managed to do what I wanted thank you very much ! 💛
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I probably won't get an answer, but is there a way to check if a virtual camera has finished blending? I want to have a button on the canvas disappear while the camera is blending
There's an IsBlending property on the Cinemachine Brain, CInemachine 3 may be better suited for it
forum.unity.com/threads/oncameratransition-onblendcomplete-event.520056/
@@samyam That works, thanks a lot!
Quick question, why are you adding SerializeField to all those fields?
when u make a field pvt u need to add [SerializeField] to make it appear in the unity editor.
pvt is used so that other scripts don't mess with your fields in the current script by some chance.
it basically blocks access of other classes, and the variable is only able to be changed from the editor so if there is some error u now know where to go and what to edit rather than going to many scripts and checking which script is messing up.
@@TrippyGamer got it, thank you!
Thanks for the tut. I already have a project set up with unitys standard input system. Using the new input system messes up everything in my project (I suppose I'd rather not have to change all my code to work with this new input system). What changes would I have to make to get this working with the standard input system?
In the Player Settings you can set the Active Input Handling to Both so you can use both in the same project
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Actually, I’m a little bit lost again haha. If you could shed some light that would be great (no worries if not though, it’s not like I’ll unsubscribe or anything, your content looks too good for that, {kinda hoping flattery will see me through understanding unity here haha}
Anyway if you have the free time feel free to continue reading!
My project has a player set up in an isometric perspective (in a perspective view not orphograthic), for my players controls; I set the up input to move the player in the direction of the cameras transforms forward . After finishing this tutorial (your last advice really helped out!) I’m running into errors. When I press space, nothing happens and instead I receive three 3 error messages in the console.
1.
Animator.GotoState: State could not be found
UnityEngine.Animator:Play (string)
2.
Invalid Layer Index ‘-1’
UnityEngine.Animator:Play (string)
And finally
3.
Look rotation viewing vector is zero
UnityEngine.Transform:setforward (Unity.Vector3)
Anyways, I don’t know if the information I’ve supplied you with helps a whole lot, but regardless; thanks for your time!
Looking forward to watching any future videos you upload! ☺️
I’d like to add, I’ve triple checked my naming conventions for the states within animator, but that 3rd error message throws me a little.
@@ThatMellon For the animator it seems to be a naming issue with your states,
answers.unity.com/questions/937070/animatorgotostate-state-could-not-be-found.html
And the rotation make sure you are not calling the rotation method towards a zeroed vector
forum.unity.com/threads/simple-fix-for-look-rotation-viewing-vector-is-zero.411731/
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Hello, i used only script method and it works perfect on editor. howecer when i build the game the code doesnt work and get stuck. can you help pls
It's a bit hard to tell without knowing what's going on, there can be a lot of moving pieces. You can also try debugging the build: docs.unity3d.com/Manual/ManagedCodeDebugging.html
Feel free to join our discord and post your issue in the #help chat: discord.gg/bvQEGk7
@@samyam thank you for answering fortunately i fixed it. there was another bug but somehow unity was fixing it in editor instead of raising exception.
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Very interesting video, thank you for uploading this kind of content! Unfortunately I have this issue, when the transition or blend happens, the position of the other camera I want to change, changes, and it doesn't focus the object I put to FOLLOW or LOOK AT. Do you know what is going on? or Did anybody run into this kind of issue? Thanks in advance ^^
Try this:
Cinemachine Virtual Camera > Transition > Inherit Position
// will inherit from the previous camera’s position
@@samyam Thank you for your fast response! For the time being, this issue is solved by changing the camera from CinemachineVirtualCamera to a CM ClearShot. Apparently, the CVC takes as reference or point to work where the main camera is. In my case I wanted to change from the player camera, to the EnemyCamera to create a cinematic. I had as child of the Enemy a CinemachineVirtualCamera and changing that to ClearShoot fixed my issue. I hope this helps someone or you for explaining in case someone runs into this issue.
Regards (๑╹ω╹๑ )
Bro can you plz make a tutorial of first person touch controls
I'll put it on my list! This might help also
3rd person mobile joystick
ua-cam.com/video/YV5KOZHsIz4/v-deo.html
It is a good job of explanation. The Cinemachine solution is a bit over-engineering and obfuscated for my taste
You should use whatever you like best! I think it's super simple for setting up both simple and complex camera systems and I'm personally using it in every project that I can.
I can't use UnityEngine.Inputsystem
anyone know how to fix?
InputSystem with the caps on the S
@@samyam Doesn't work either. I type "In" and the only thing comming is "Internal"
What are you using to code? Maybe the Intellisense is not working properly. Try closing out of the code editor, then going to Assets > Open C# Project. Also make sure you have the input system installed through the package manager. I have a video here how to set up VS Code with Unity ua-cam.com/video/4WWX2_tZu5Q/v-deo.html
@@samyam ehm... how can i be that dumb xd
thank you, didn't know it was sth. to download haha. Im dum.
After downloading i had to open VS like you told and it worked! :)
Thank you very much :)
Why not just leaving one camera disabled and then in code with two lines to enable/disable the cameras when need? The camera will make the blending and switching automatically. I'm using this simple code and it's blending smoothly between the cameras. A simple script with some lines. using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using Cinemachine;
public class CamerasManager : MonoBehaviour
{
public CinemachineFreeLook[] freeLookCameras;
public float timeBeforeSwitching;
// Start is called before the first frame update
void Start()
{
StartCoroutine(SwitchCameras(timeBeforeSwitching));
}
// Update is called once per frame
void Update()
{
}
IEnumerator SwitchCameras(float TimeBeforeSwitching)
{
yield return new WaitForSeconds(TimeBeforeSwitching);
freeLookCameras[0].enabled = false;
freeLookCameras[1].enabled = true;
}
}
You can also do it this way, it’s up to you. The state machine makes it simpler for different animations and perhaps changing camera depending on different locations