FPS Cinemachine + Animator jitter

[mitaywalle]

1. I create new thread with similar problem: FPS Controller through Cinemachine - HOW to avoid SHAKING/JITTER?

Cinemachine vCam Tracking to Animator bone (or it’s child) make jitter.

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Context:

• Unity 6
• Cinemachine 3+
• Cinemachine ThirdPersonFollow, ThirdPersonAim, Aiming to spine bone
  
  
• Hierarchy
  
  
• Animator with Humanoid animations
• CharacterController + FirstPersonController script move and rotate object
  
  
• tried all Cinemachine Brain Update Methods, always jitter
• tried vCam Standby Update both modes Always and Round Robin
• execution order wasn’t modified
  
  

offtopic

2. I think Cinemachine need some Validation logic (separate tool or built-in to components warnings and buttons ‘fix’) to prevent this problem on character controllers, there is limited amount of variations:

• character controllers physical base (Transform based, dynamic/kinematic Rigidbody,CharacterController)
• cinemachine update modes (Smart, Late, Fixed)
• vCam target (character root, eye-transform, Animator bone)

3. Cinemachine need FPS Samples

[Gregoryl]

From the video, it looks to me like the character is jittering, and since the camera is tracking a bone in a jittering character, it jitters along with it. You need to fix the animation, not the camera.

So put all the camera settings back to normal: Smart/Late update in the brain, round robin in standby update.

[mitaywalle]

@Gregoryl

character is jittering

Hello, thank you for answer! Animation is fine, spine bone is rotated by script from starter assets, FirstPersonController

But you right, I need to built my script around Animation Rigging constraints, and it s not cinemachine problem

[Gregoryl]

Probably you are using the FirstPersonController incorrectly. The intention is that it should rotate an invisible child object of your player, not an actual bone.