Comments

• ChrisIceBox

  July 2024

  It supports moving behind the Player if movement is detected - i.e. it'll naturally go behind once the Player begins moving. This won't kick in if the Player is idle, however.

  What's the exact behaviour you're looking for? For the camera to reset once input is released?
• Phantasie

  July 2024

  Hi Chris

  What we would like
  The camera should always return behind the players back. Ideally after a slight delay.
  Free look should allow changing the pitch and orbit of the camera. Once released, it should return after a slight delay.

  Even if this worked once the player started moving it would be ok

  What we see
  I've found that the movement sometimes triggers the camera to return, other times it only returns some percentage of the way. Once the camera is dragged (drag-control) it rarely returns.

  Details
  Using a fresh install of AC 179.3 using Unity 2021.3.24f1
  I can reproduce this behaviour with a simple AC scene using TinPot.
  Movement is Snap relative to camera.
  3rd person camera has default settings (reset component, meaning Target Influence speed is set, and no limit on spin).

  Notes
  Ive also noticed then when I run the Unity recorder the camera does not return at all (so I cant demo the behavior to you). I havent had a change to step through the code and see why.

  I need to step out for a bit so I apologize for a post without specific details - we are on different time zones and I wanted to respond today. Ill post further details later today,.
• ChrisIceBox

  July 2024

  Open up GameCameraThirdPerson and add the following:

  public Vector2 LastFrameInput => lastFrameInput;
  

  (I'll make the same change to the next release)

  Then, this script should handle it:

  using UnityEngine;
  using AC;
  
  public class ResetFollowCam : MonoBehaviour
  {
  
      public float delay = 1f;
      public float speed = 3f;
      public GameCameraThirdPerson thirdPersonCamera;
      private float timer;
  
      private void Update ()
      {
          if (thirdPersonCamera.LastFrameInput.sqrMagnitude <= 0.01f)
          {
              timer += Time.deltaTime;
              if (timer >= delay)
              {
                  float targetSpinAngle = thirdPersonCamera.GenerateTargetAngles (thirdPersonCamera.Target).x;
                  float currentSpinAngle = thirdPersonCamera.SpinAngle;
  
                  if (currentSpinAngle * targetSpinAngle < 0f)
                  {
                      if (currentSpinAngle < -90f && targetSpinAngle > 90f) currentSpinAngle += 360f;
                      if (currentSpinAngle > 90f && targetSpinAngle < -90f) currentSpinAngle -= 360f;
                  }
  
                  float newSpinAngle = Mathf.Lerp (currentSpinAngle, targetSpinAngle, Time.deltaTime * speed);
                  thirdPersonCamera.SnapToRotation (newSpinAngle, thirdPersonCamera.PitchAngle);
              }
          }
          else
          {
              timer = 0f;
          }
      }
  
  }
  
• Phantasie

  July 2024

  This worked great. I'll use it along with some other modifications (dont return back if player is actively dragging, etc). I think its a good idea to integrate back into the main branch as well.
  Thank you.