Transitioning from mid-blend cuts between cameras

Unity Engine
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Hello !
The title sort of explains my problem : I switch from Cam A to Cam B, which works fine fine, but if I need to switch back during the blend, the camera will just instantly jump back to A. If I wait a second until the blend is finished, no issue, works as expected. I don’t disable any GameObject…
Any idea what might be causing it ?

Thank you !

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What version of Cinemachine?
Do you have any custom blends set up? If so, what are they? Can you show the CM Brain inspector?

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Thanks for the quick reply !

So, I’m using Cinemachine 2.7.1 (in Unity 2019.4)

I do have quite a few custom blends set up, including some between those 2 cameras (which are ThirdPerson Climb and ThirdPerson Main, so the second and third transitions)

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Well, I don’t see any blends with “cut” as the blend style so I can’t explain why you’re seeing the cut. It should be safe to interrupt a blend with another blend. Is this the only vcam combination that gives you this issue?

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Good question, I’ll try other combinations tomorrow… I’m thinking that rather than actually cutting, it might actually be due to the B cam resetting its position in one frame ? (in the A → B ; B → A situation) But I don’t know what could be causing it…

I’ll test some things and let you know.

Vincent

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So I made some tests :
it happens with other cameras, and the problem is not an actual cut as I suspected in my last post, but the camera actually resets its position. I made a short recording to show you, it’s a bit messy, but you can clearly see the virtual cam jump when I try to revert the transition (the main cam’s priority is 10, so when I set the climb cam’s priority to 1 it goes back to the main one, and when I set it to 11 it activates it again)

Any chance this is a cinemachine bug when you try to transition from a mid-blend back to the original cam ?

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Does it happen when you turn off InheritPosition in the FreeLooks?

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Hmmm okay that was the culprit, thank you !

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So that narrows it down. If you’re happy losing the InheritPosition feature then fine, but imo there is a bug here to be fixed.

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Hello!

I have exactly the same issue. Disabling InheritPosition removes the cut in mid-blend. Unfortunately I absolutely need this option for my camera setup (blend between two CinemachineFreeLook with same target and different Orbits binding modes).

Hope you will be able to fix this bug in a very next release.

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We have a fix for this. It should be in the next 2.7 cut, or at the very latest in 2.8.

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Any update on this? I think I have the same problem (2.8.4)