Cinemachine 2D Camera Lookahead doesn't seem to work for me.

Unity Engine
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Whenever I use the camera at first the lookahead is just where I want it to be and what I want it to be doing. Then, whenever I go back to moving after stopping completely, the camera doesn’t want to look ahead and just sticks to the player.

The image is of the settings I have for the Cinemachine camera. I’ve tried multiple things, and I’m not sure if this is a bug on Cinemachine or not the right settings.

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  1. What version of Cinemachine are you using?
  2. When the player stops moving, the lookahead is expected to drop to zero until the player starts moving again.
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Oh sorry for a late response.

  1. 2.7.3 is my version. I also haven’t received any updates in case that might be the problem.
  2. When the player starts moving again, the lookahead practically stays at zero.
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Very strange about the lookahead. I’m wondering whether you’re moving the character unevenly. What happens if you pump up the lookahead smoothing setting?

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Well, when I first start looking, the lookahead changes like it should and works but then whenever I stop moving completely and start moving, it then does the same thing as before. The camera will not keep looking ahead once you stop moving completely and start again.

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Can you prepare a simple test project that show this problem and send it to me?

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Apparently, it started working the first time I got back on. Then, once I got on for the second time to make sure…it messed up again. I really appreciate you for taking time to look into this.

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It’s really hard to tell what’s happening from your video. Would you be willing to prepare a lightweight test project that reproduces this problem and send it to me?

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You mean create a new project and try this?
Sure, I can.

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I’ve been running a few more tests recently, and it sometimes seems to work fine, and whenever it does the glitch now, It fixes when I jump. Which makes me think it could be something to do with my movement scripts or what not and how it interacts with Cinemachine.

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Hi, did you ever figure out what was causing it? I’m having the same issue

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I also faced this problem. Put in “Default Blend” in CinemachinceBrain to Cut. This solved my problem.

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In main camera>cinemachine brain
Change both “update method” and “blend update method”, from late update to fixed update

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Not good advice. Update mode is not the way to fix this problem.

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What do you recommend instead? I have been having this same issue, and changing the update methods to fixed has seemed to resolve it. Will that lead to other issues down the line?

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There are many possible causes of jitter. Without knowing the specifics of your case, I cannot answer your question. If you would like to start a new thread that describes your use case, we can look into it.