How to make Free Look camera stop tracking Mouse movements when holding button.

Unity Engine
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I want my free look camera to stop rotating when Im holding shift, but still follow the player.
Then go back to a Free look camera when I let go of shift.

I tried doing some shenanigans with switching between seperate cameras, but I couldn’t get the correct results.

2

Shenanigans with switching between separate cameras is probably the right approach. You just need the right shenanigans. What did you try and how was it wrong?

3

I had my free look camera, and a normal virtual camera which I set the position to the freelook camera every frame. It almost worked but the camera would either reset back to its original position when I switched, or it would fly off into the distance for whatever reason. The best I got was where it would track the player, but not follow. which is the opposite of what I want. It just felt like there was 1 setting I was missing.

4

Can you show me the inspectors for the FreeLook and the other vcam? You can paste images directly into the forum post.

5

The freelook
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The vcam
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6

Try enabling this in both cameras:

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7

It almost worked! but now the vcam is slowly spinning until it spirals out of control

8

I got it working thanks for the help = )

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9

This worked ok for me…

void Update()
{
if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.LeftControl ) )
{
vcam.m_XAxis.m_InputAxisName = “Mouse X”;
vcam.m_YAxis.m_InputAxisName = “Mouse Y”;
}
else if (Input.GetKeyUp(KeyCode.LeftControl))
{
vcam.m_XAxis.m_InputAxisName = string.Empty;
vcam.m_YAxis.m_InputAxisName = string.Empty;
}
}