Transfering fbx animation to cinemachine?

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So I figured out how to transfer my FBX camera animation from blender to Unity, but I don’t know how I can transfer it to my cinemachine camera so it’ll be easier to work with my system. Can anyone recommend some techniques to do this?

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I’m not exactly sure I’m understanding what you’re attempting to do here. Cinemachine’s purpose is to control the camera. If you export a camera animation from Blender and bring it into Unity…what is it you want Cinemachine to do?

If the idea is that you have a canned animation (maybe for a cutscene) and you want to seamlessly tween that to a live game camera, you could simply attach a Virtual Camera with everything set to “Do nothing” to your imported animation. Then you can transition between the exported FBX animation and a second live Virtual Camera.

Hope that helps!

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I want to be able to transition my cutscene camera (which I animated in blender) smoothly to my gameplay camera which uses cinemachine, rather than it being a hard cut. Hope that explains it a bit

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OK, terrific. Then the answer I gave in my second paragraph should be what you want to do: i.e., export your camera from Blender, then in Unity just attach a virtual camera to that animation.

At the end of the baked animation, you can simply tween to a second, Cinemachine-controlled virtual camera camera.

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So attach an animator to my virutal camera? Also I animated the FOV for my camera. How would that transfer over to the virtual camera?

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Ah, ok…I get what you need here. You need the CinemachineExternalCamera, which is a component you can add to your main Camera (i.e., the actual Camera, not a Cinemachine Virtual Camera). The CinemachineExternalCamera allows the Camera itself to function as a virtual camera…so you should see the animated FOV, etc. That will permit your baked animation from Blender to drive the Virtual Camera until you’re ready for something more dynamic to take control.

Once you’ve attached the External Camera, you can simply do a Timeline tween (on a Cinemachine track) between that and the game VCam.

Hope that makes sense.

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