Vcam jittering

Unity Engine
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Hi,

I was working on my game when I detected a jittering issue with the camera. My player has a CharacterController without rigidbody and the Update Method on Cinemachine Brain is setted to Smart.

The player movement looks great but the background seems jerky so I changed the Update Method to see if any of the other options works. If I use the Free look character example inside Cinemachine examples I saw the same behaviour but changing the rigidbody option Interpolate to Interpolate works fine, it isn’t the same case.

That said, I don’t know how to proceed because it seems that the problem exists in the basic example. Could you test if you have the same problem?

  • Dani
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It sounds like you are tripping over a difficulty when trying to use a camera on something that doesn’t move smoothly. If your character is moving in a jittery way, then something will be wrong no matter how you set up the camera:

  • If you lock the camera to the character, the character will look good but the background will jitter because the camera jitters in sync with the character
  • If you make the camera motion smooth, the background will be nice but the character will jitter

The only solution is to make sure the character animates smoothly.

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Yes, you are right, we had to move our character smoothly.

Thank you for your answer :slight_smile:

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