Hello there
Anyone have some useful tips for creating a blinking effect with the first person controller camera?
For example having the player wake up and having the camera fade in, blink a few times and then clear view.
I would probably use two planes with an unlit black material with a blurred alpha and have them represent the upper and lower lids, then have those visible only to a special camera matching your main camera, which can only see them and has a higher depth to the main one. That’s to make sure nothing clips through the lids by accident. Then script them or animate them to mimic opening and closing, and use the blurred image effect ramping it up or down as the eyes open or close. Maybe even increase the bloom image effect after opening the eyes and fading it down to normal, to kind of simulate the way light is too bright when just waking up or coming in from a dark place. Without having to overdo regular tonemapping/blooming.
Cheers buddy.
I will give that a go. Really needed a few pointers in the right direction.
The image effects you mentioned for example ‘bloom’ and ‘blurred’ are they Pro licence only? If not where could I find them?
Yeah those are pro only. If you’re using the indie version. You could then, rather than use those. Have a white oval texture on another plane and place that closer to the camera than the lids. Then animate it’s opacity so it appears to quickly become bright and glaring as the eyes open, then fade away, which would give a similar effect but without requiring pro only features. Valve did the same thing in HL2 as you leave the mines and find yourself at one end of a train depot and it worked really well.
Do you reckon I could get away with trying it out on the first person controller camera? maybe if I used a fade out the destroy script on the animated lids and oval?
Yeah should be just fine. You can just make it a prefab on its own, setup the animation sequences, the method you want to control it, then place the prefab of that inside the character controller prefab in the position you want it, setup the camera’s so the lids will always appear in front of everything else and it should work as expected. Hopefully 
Frank Oz cheers matey, I tried your tips with animating eyelids and also using the FadeInOut script from unify got it looking pretty ok. A little more tweak and it should look pretty good. Thank you.
Meh11, sounds good i think ill give that one a try tomorrow I reckon. Ill put up a webplayer of what I have done if/when I work out how to do it.
cheers guys
Here it is, like I said it needs a lot of changes but it’s a nice start
I’m getting this when I click your link. So will have to wait to see it for a bit. 
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Ah Bugger! Cool man
If someone is looking for a super optimised drag’n’drop solution you might want to take a look at
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