[SOLVED]Switch Camera

Unity Engine
1

Hi everybody,

How can I switch the player view from one camera to another. I have tried the following way:

GameObject.Find("Initial Camera").GetComponent("Camera").active = false;
GameObject.Find("Main Camera").GetComponent("Camera").active = true;

and is not working. Any ideas will be welcomed.

Thanks.

2

digitalwm,
I’m not sure why yours isn’t working. Here is what I am using:

	GameObject _cameraFP = null;
	GameObject _cameraWV = null;
	
	void Start () 
	{
		// Init camera 
		_cameraFP = GameObject.Find("Main Camera");
		if (_cameraFP == null)
			Debug.Log("Start(): First Person Camera not found");
			
		_cameraWV = GameObject.Find("Main Camera Wide View");
		if (_cameraWV == null)
			Debug.Log("Start(): Wide View Camera not found");
	}
	
	void SelectCamera(int cameraIndex)
	{
		if (_cameraFP != null)
			_cameraFP.camera.enabled = (cameraIndex == 0);
		if (_cameraWV != null)
			_cameraWV.camera.enabled = (cameraIndex == 1);
	
	}

Hope that helps,
-Chris

3

Thanks - Solved.

4

where do you put this and how do you use it? on a camera or the main camera or the player not sure. and how to you make it switch, through a getkeydown or soemthing like that?

thanks

5

You can put this anywhere convenient, say on an empty object somewhere in the scene acting as a camera controller. You can use any event you like to switch cameras, so it could be a keystroke, but could just as easily be an event in the game.

6

i tried

GameObject.Find("InitialCamera").GetComponent("Camera").active = false;
GameObject.Find("MainCamera").GetComponent("Camera").active = true;

and it worked for me. dont know what you could have done different then me.

7

Tell us what you did!

8

probably he has a third (or first) person controller where in somewhere is calling the Camera.main.transform… i guess…

9

Thanks!