How to animate zooming in of the camera?

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I would like to achieve the zooming in of a camera like aim down a sniper scope over time. Here is my current script.

class FieldsOfView {
    var narrow : float;
    var wide : float;
}
var fieldsOfView : FieldsOfView;

var delay : float;

function Update () {
    if (Input.GetKeyDown("f")) {
        StartCoroutine(ChangeFieldOfView());
        enabled = false;
    }        
}

function ChangeFieldOfView () {
    yield WaitForSeconds(delay);
    camera.fieldOfView = camera.fieldOfView == fieldsOfView.narrow ? fieldsOfView.wide : fieldsOfView.narrow;
    enabled = true;     
}

4 Answers

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2

It's easier to animate your sniper using Unity's Animation Timeline

Shawn

How to animate fieldOfView in Animation timeline ? Details please

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3

You probably want to have a shot with the Lerp function:

http://unity3d.com/support/documentation/ScriptReference/Mathf.Lerp.html

I've used this recently to control the field of view to get a similar effect.

EDIT

For example you could try:

camera.fieldOfView = (Mathf.Lerp(fieldsOfView.narrow, fieldsOfView.wide, Time.time), 0, 0);
4

Try this...

var fZoomDuration: float = 1.0; // This determines how fast the zoom will be. Lower values mean faster animation.
var fOneOverDurationToZoom: float = 1.0 / fZoomDuration;

var fStartValue: float = camera.fieldOfView;
var fEndValue: float = camera.fieldOfView == fieldsOfView.narrow ? fieldsOfView.wide : fieldsOfView.narrow;

var fTime: float = 0.0;
var fLerp: float = 0.0;

while (fLerp <= 1f)
{
    fLerp = fTime * fOneOverDurationToZoom;
    camera.fieldOfView = Mathf.Lerp(fStartValue, fEndValue, fLerp);
    fTime += Time.deltaTime;
    yield;
}
5

Just watch this tutorial!
Hope it works… @DevonJS