Smooth 2D camera zoom

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1

Have 2D Top Down game.

I need some Smooth Ortographic Camera zoom in it.
So far this is not working, it`s pretty fast and not smooth.

camera.orthographicSize = Mathf.Lerp(camera.orthographicSize, camera.orthographicSize + Input.GetAxis("Mouse ScrollWheel") * 100, Time.deltaTime * zoomSpeed);

Any Ideas please?

3

Here’s an awesome script. It works perfectly

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class Zoom : MonoBehaviour {
	
	public float zoomSpeed = 1;
	public float targetOrtho;
	public float smoothSpeed = 2.0f;
	public float minOrtho = 1.0f;
	public float maxOrtho = 20.0f;
	
	void Start() {
		targetOrtho = Camera.main.orthographicSize;
	}
	
	void Update () {
		
		float scroll = Input.GetAxis ("Mouse ScrollWheel");
		if (scroll != 0.0f) {
			targetOrtho -= scroll * zoomSpeed;
			targetOrtho = Mathf.Clamp (targetOrtho, minOrtho, maxOrtho);
		}
		
		Camera.main.orthographicSize = Mathf.MoveTowards (Camera.main.orthographicSize, targetOrtho, smoothSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
	}
}
2

It is fast because the usage of the Lerp method is wrong. For the third parameter your argument is

Time.deltaTime * zoomSpeed

The way the lerp works is, if this parameter is 0 it returns your first argument camera.orthographicSize. If it’s 1 it return your second argument. The values in-between interpolate between your both arguments. Hope it makes sense. So what you want to do is, map the zoom value between 0 and 1, modify that value with the scroll wheel and then use that as an argument for the lerp. Let me know if it doesn’t make any sense and I can provide a code example in my free time.