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Unity Cookbook - Fifth Edition

You're reading from  Unity Cookbook - Fifth Edition

Product type Book
Published in Nov 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781805123026
Pages 780 pages
Edition 5th Edition
Languages
Authors (3):
Matt Smith Matt Smith
Shaun Ferns Shaun Ferns
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Sinéad Murphy Sinéad Murphy
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface 1. Displaying Data with Core UI Elements 2. Responding to User Events for Interactive UIs 3. Inventory and Advanced UIs 4. Playing and Manipulating Sounds 5. Textures, Materials, and 3D Objects 6. Creating 3D Environments with Terrains 7. Creating 3D Geometry with ProBuilder 8. 2D Animation and Physics 9. Animated Characters 10. Saving and Loading Data 11. Controlling and Choosing Positions 12. Navigation Meshes and Agents 13. Cameras, Lighting, and Visual Effects 14. Shader Graphs and Video Players 15. Particle Systems and Other Visual Effects 16. Mobile Games and Applications 17. Augmented Reality (AR) 18. Virtual and Extended Reality (VR/XR) 19. Advanced Topics – Gizmos, Automated Testing, and More 20. Other Books You May Enjoy
21. Index

Using Cinemachine ClearShot to switch cameras to keep the player in shot

Cinemachine is a suite of tools that sets up a suite of cameras that improves player capture for dynamic view or improved cutscenes. This recipe implements Cinemachine ClearShot to switch between different virtual cameras to keep the player within shot.

We’ll do this by specifying that the center of the human character’s chest should be kept in the center of the shot as much as possible, and the AI system will decide which Camera to select to best meet these criteria:

Figure 13.29: Two virtual cameras the Cinemachine Brain can switch between for the best shot of the character

Getting ready

This recipe builds on the basic scene created in the first recipe of this chapter, so make a copy of it to work on for this recipe.

How to do it...

To use Cinemachine ClearShot to switch cameras to keep the player in the shot, simply perform the following steps:

  1. Open the...
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