Switching cameras

Unity Engine
1

Hello Unity forums,

I’ve been working on this for the longest time, browsed the forums for a solution and still came up with nothing. It might sound very simple but it seems pretty complicated. I want to be able to have a camera (or POV) to move across the x axis for a certain distance or period of time, then switch to another camera once it’s done. In other words: I want the camera to move for a bit, then switch to another camera and let that move, then switch again. I’ve been having a lot of difficulty with it.

2

I thought Camera.Current would do the trick but it is readonly:

Maybe you could just enable the new camera and disable the old one and then switch back the same way.

3

Yeah I checked out Camera current and it seemed like it would be a pain to use. And I’ve been working on the enabling and disabling situation but the reason I cant figure that out is because I need to find a way to track how far the camera goes. I’d like it to go a certain distance or time, then switch. Any good time or distance variables that I could use? I also use the transform.Translate variable which seems to move my camera too fast. :stuck_out_tongue:

4

Camera.current is get-only, so it cannot be used.

If you want an action to take place in a certain amount of time (like switching camera), you read about yield - there you will find examples of waiting for a certain amount of time.

If you want to switch camera based on where the player or camera or something else is located, use Colliders set to IsTrigger=True… and do your scripting inside the OnTriggerEnter() function.

transform.Translate is a function where you can send any values you want. Hence, you can get the velocity of you choice.

5

Okay so here’s my new script and apparently it doesn’t work. The camera seems to not want to move at all. :stuck_out_tongue:

function Update () {
//move the camera
transform.Translate(Vector3.right * Time.deltaTime);
//wait 5 seconds
yield WaitForSeconds(5);
//stop the camera 
transform.Translate(0, 0, 0);

}
6

I have not used yield and WaitForSeconds but if they work the way you use them, try this:

var movecam = true;
function Start()
{
//wait 5 seconds 
yield WaitForSeconds(5); 
//stop the camera 
transform.Translate(0, 0, 0); 
movecam=false;
}

function Update () { 
//move the camera 
if (movecam)
{
transform.Translate(Vector3.right * Time.deltaTime); 
}
}

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7

Awesome! Thank you so much it worked perfectly! :smile: