Recenter Wait Time inconsistent on FreeLook

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I am on Unity 2021.3.8f1 with Cinemachine 2.8.9

I am using a custom Input provider and am successfully passing input through GetAxisValue(). I would expect that Recentering would stop and begin again after Wait Time has elapsed but that is not what is happening. However, when I set Wait Time to something high, Recentering is delayed for some inconsistent amount of time (e.g. 3 second delay when Wait Time is set to 10). This delay to recenter varies from play to play.

Here is my FreeLook setup

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And here is my custom input provider

public class CinemachineCameraInput : MonoBehaviour, AxisState.IInputAxisProvider
{
    private float _xAxis;
    private float _yAxis;

    public float GetAxisValue(int axis)
    {
        switch (axis)
        {
            case 0: return _xAxis;
            case 1: return _yAxis;
            default: return 0;
        }
    }

    public void Rotate(Vector2 input)
    {
        _xAxis = input.x;
        _yAxis = input.y;
    }
}
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Recentering waits the specified amount of time when I try it. Can you make a test project that demonstrates this problem?

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@Gregoryl I’ll DM you the project.

Theres 2 issues it will demonstrate.

  1. The Recentering starts immediately when wait time is set to 4 or less.
  2. With everything set to FixedUpdate (Brian, character controller, etc) camera movement on the Y axis is very jittery compared to movement on the X axis. The lower the framerate the more choppy the movement so I’ve set framerate to 30 for the project.

I can get the Y axis movement to work smoothly when set to LateUpdate but the project benefits the most from the CharacterController operating in FixedUpdate.

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I have the same problem with Cinemachine 2.8.9 (Unity 2021.3.14). It seems that actual Wait Time becomes on five seconds shorter than specified. For ecample, if I specify 7 secons it will wait 2 seconds. So if I specify 3, it becomes 0.

After some time of debugging I installed Cinemachine 2.9.4 and it doesn’t have this problem. Wait Time works as it should. But I have some concerns about this version because it not verified yet for Unity 2021.3

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Don’t worry about the verification, it’s fine. Everyone should use 2.9.4 instead of 2.8.X.

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Ah, great. Then I will do so. Thank you)