Simple Camera Switch Using C#

Questions & Answers
1

Hello, I’m new to the land of Unity and I’m trying to muddle my way through. I’m probably having issues due to inexperience using Unity and C#.

In very simple scene, I’m trying to make 2 camera’s switch when a key is pressed on the board (C). Is there a simple method to achieve this using enabled = true?

Other notes that could be of use:

I have followed other vid tuts without success. :frowning:
I have nested 2 camera’s in a a Empty Game Object… do I need to do this?
I’m a newb.

Thanks for you help.

2

You can group your cameras, but don’t have to.

Regarding the switch, you want to make sure you activate one and not the other.
Something in the like :

public Camera camOne;
public Camera camTwo;

private void Awake ()
{
    camTwo.enabled = false;
}

public void SwitchCam ()
{
    camOne.enabled = !camOne.enabled;
    camTwo.enabled = !camTwo.enabled;
}

This is one of many ways to do it.

3

Morning… Managed to stop it spitting back errors but the camera transitions doesn’t work. Another thing to note is that the object in my scene is flash/blinking rapidly. Any clues?

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class CameraSwitch : MonoBehaviour {

public Camera camera1;
public Camera camera2;

private void Awake ()
{
	camera2.enabled = false;
}

public void SwitchCam ()
{
	camera1.enabled = !camera1.enabled;
	camera2.enabled = !camera2.enabled;
}
	

	void Update() {
	if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.C))
			print("C key was pressed");
		SwitchCam ();

	}

}

Thanks,

4

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class Manycameras : MonoBehaviour {

	public Camera camera1;
	public Camera camera2;
	public Keycode key;

	private void Awake ()
	{
		camera2.enabled = false;
	}

	public void SwitchCam ()
	{
		camera1.enabled = !camera1.enabled;
		camera2.enabled = !camera2.enabled;
	}
}

void Update()
{
	if (Input.GetKeyDown (KeyCode.C))
	{
		Debug.Log ("C key was pressed");
		SwitchCam ();
	}
}

Well I tried this code as I wish for more than one camera in my game I want lots as I want to be able to see from both friendlies and enemies but all I keep getting when I run this code is this

Blockquote
: Error CS0116: A namespace cannot directly contain members such as fields or methods (CS0116) (Assembly-CSharp)