I just wrote a script that lets an object follow the player at all times if the player is a certain range away from the object (to be used as a camera target object).
It basically works just the way I want it to work but the movement is a bit jittery and I have no idea why.
I tested a bunch of different ways to do it and even though this one works I’m sure there is a much better way to do it… I’m fairly new to unity so I wouldn’t actually know -.-
Anyways, the script moves the gameobject towards the target(player) when the player is farther than 0.75 Units aways … so effectively the camera only starts to move when the player moves at least that amount in any direction.
Heres what I’ve got so far:
using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
public class CameraTargetFollowPlayer : MonoBehaviour {
public float targetDistance = 0.5F;
public float smoothTime = 10;
public Transform target;
private float distance = 1F;
Transform temptarget = null;
void LateUpdate () {
transform.LookAt(target);
distance = Vector3.Distance( transform.position, target.position) ;
// reset if its too far away
if (distance > 7) {
transform.position = target.position-transform.forward;
} else {
if (distance > targetDistance) {
transform.position = Vector3.Slerp( transform.position, new Vector3 (
target.position.x-(transform.forward.x*targetDistance),
target.position.y,
target.position.z-(transform.forward.z*targetDistance)
),
Time.deltaTime * smoothTime
);
} else {
// if distance isnt big enough to move the target we still need to adjust the y height every frame
transform.position = new Vector3(transform.position.x, target.position.y, transform.position.z);
}
}
}
}
