I spent days creating a rotatable follow camera... Once I finished they released Cinemachine and from that day I have been using it in all of my projects.
I literally just finished watching that Unity series on Cinemachine last week. I've been following your channel for awhile. No idea that was you and that you worked for them until I saw this today. That's so cool.
these cameras are great for cut-scenes and fourth person setups but i found them a pain for first and third person where you need direct mouse control over the camera. there's a lot of built in negative acceleration to deal with.
There's good reason Cinemachine is not enabled by default and that is: it is not needed for every project. Top down shooter? Not needed. Typical roguelike ? Not needed. 2d Puzzle game? Not needed. It was a mostly-good day that unity decided NOT EVERYTHING needs to be included by default. User configurable default template projects in the Unity Hub would be a banger feature for people who love certain default assets in 'every' project they start.
If you look at the comments you will notice a large number of people basically complaining about clickbait. A smaller group are actually thankful because they honestly didn't know about cinemachine. Here is the solution for that. Instead of your current title, you should have used something like "Cinemachine, the secret camera tool in Unity you probably didn't know about". That way, the ones who do know about it don't feel cheated when clicking on a deliberately vague video title in hopes of learning something new. While those who actually don't know wbout the tool learn something new.
Maybe it's because I've mainly been doing first person and simple top down games where following a character is super easy to program. But I'm still not entirely sure what makes Cinemachine such a must use tool outside cutscenes or special use cases. It always just seemed like a sort of way over the top solution to what is often something very easy to do with just a few lines of code. I'm sure I'm just missing something very obvious. I will be sure give it a better look when I start doing more advanced cutscenes though. There I could see it being rather helpful.
Because alot, possibly most of unities userbase are not experienced coders or even developers. Unity has always marketed itself as being for total beginners that often can't code.
For me (and Matt in the video) the beauty of CM is at 3:10 of the video, the Framing. Its just cool the way it allows the character to move around the frame without moving the camera, until they start moving out of frame and camera follows along. That seems like it would be really hard to code right :)
@@kyleme9697 Oh definitely. It seems like an amazing tool when you need to do advanced static/following cameras. I just struggle to find cases where you do need them outside of cutscenes. Especially for this to become a must install plugin.
Great video! :) Cinemachine can be an absolute saviour for all game Dev stages. We even build deep integrated system with it in our internal and published tools.
Hey Matt, I've been searching the web on how to make a 'News' Tab (something like the News tab in Brawl Stars or Clash Royale for example) in-game in Unity, but can't seem to find anything. Could you maybe do a tutorial on something like this?
Cinemachine is the very first thing I install whenever I create a new project. It's very convenient and I can't understand why it's not imported by default in a new project.
Cinemachine is really handy for smaller-scale projects, but once you start to scale up, it's *really* not something to rely on. It's caused us so many headaches on every project once we got deeper into it.
What if my player is just a ball and i want to rotate my camera around the ball when user press a key such that camera rotates kind of 90 degrees around the ball and left or right side ( whichever side we choose to rotate ) becomes front side. Can I achieved smooth camera movement by cinemachine? I don't want mouse to affect camera. As I'm making game for mobile, I want only buttons to affect the camera.
I make most time 2d games with simple camera movement and not needed for cinemachine. So I never tried it because of this. But good to see how strong it is.
You can do the same with the default Camera and custom script. Cinemachine comes with bloats that a lot of us won't use. That said, there's no magic in Cinemachine
1:33 yet another feature they should just include by default. I love Unity, but man, there's so much stuff they should just include in all your projects, shader graphs, timeline, cinemachine, that plugin that lets you see bones of an armature, 2D lights(i know they're included but you need to download URP and do a much of finagling to get them working lol), and probably a bunch of others I don't even know about...
@@KalponicGames We can disable these features if we don't want them lol, Unity already does always include useless plugins... There's no way an empty unreal project is 50 gb, i just googled it, it's 200mb lol
I'm so early (13 seconds after the video uploaded) I don't know what to say... Ahh, let's go with this: Nah he tweakin lol Anyway, thanks for the video ✌️
@@bezoro-personal 100% agreed, however i feel like with a huge project you can afford the hours a "perfect" camera takes. Solo-developing an Engine however is unsuitable 99.999% of the time, as it takes tremendous times the effort and you have to really know what you're doing to get a reasonable result
Cinemachine creates a lots of garbage, I try to avoid it if all I want is a simple camera follow/lookAt with some noise, but for very complex setups, Cinemachine is perfect.
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Video Idea- Creating an extendable Theming System coz who likes creating a checkbox and then changing it's tick sprite and color
I spent days creating a rotatable follow camera... Once I finished they released Cinemachine and from that day I have been using it in all of my projects.
Welcome to the club..month of work for a high quality 3rd Person camera. Lets say i took a break wehen it was releases.
I feel your pain
@@YuriNoirProductions May I join the list too? The exact same thing happened to me...
Oh yeah, Cinemachine + Timeline. Those tools are absolutely incredible! Super powerful, flexible systems.
I literally just finished watching that Unity series on Cinemachine last week. I've been following your channel for awhile. No idea that was you and that you worked for them until I saw this today. That's so cool.
Wow I didn't knew you had worked at Unity. That explains a lot why your videos are top quality.
Great video! Big Thanks!
these cameras are great for cut-scenes and fourth person setups but i found them a pain for first and third person where you need direct mouse control over the camera. there's a lot of built in negative acceleration to deal with.
this is basically click bait.
your videos are high quality man, keep going👍
I was excited because I didn’t think anyone didn’t know about cinemachine by now. Essential
There's good reason Cinemachine is not enabled by default and that is: it is not needed for every project. Top down shooter? Not needed. Typical roguelike ? Not needed. 2d Puzzle game? Not needed. It was a mostly-good day that unity decided NOT EVERYTHING needs to be included by default. User configurable default template projects in the Unity Hub would be a banger feature for people who love certain default assets in 'every' project they start.
Thanks.
If you look at the comments you will notice a large number of people basically complaining about clickbait. A smaller group are actually thankful because they honestly didn't know about cinemachine.
Here is the solution for that. Instead of your current title, you should have used something like "Cinemachine, the secret camera tool in Unity you probably didn't know about". That way, the ones who do know about it don't feel cheated when clicking on a deliberately vague video title in hopes of learning something new. While those who actually don't know wbout the tool learn something new.
Maybe it's because I've mainly been doing first person and simple top down games where following a character is super easy to program. But I'm still not entirely sure what makes Cinemachine such a must use tool outside cutscenes or special use cases. It always just seemed like a sort of way over the top solution to what is often something very easy to do with just a few lines of code. I'm sure I'm just missing something very obvious.
I will be sure give it a better look when I start doing more advanced cutscenes though. There I could see it being rather helpful.
Because alot, possibly most of unities userbase are not experienced coders or even developers. Unity has always marketed itself as being for total beginners that often can't code.
For me (and Matt in the video) the beauty of CM is at 3:10 of the video, the Framing. Its just cool the way it allows the character to move around the frame without moving the camera, until they start moving out of frame and camera follows along. That seems like it would be really hard to code right :)
@@kyleme9697 Oh definitely. It seems like an amazing tool when you need to do advanced static/following cameras. I just struggle to find cases where you do need them outside of cutscenes. Especially for this to become a must install plugin.
Great video! :)
Cinemachine can be an absolute saviour for all game Dev stages. We even build deep integrated system with it in our internal and published tools.
OMG dude I need this. I had no idea this was a thing
Hey Matt, I've been searching the web on how to make a 'News' Tab (something like the News tab in Brawl Stars or Clash Royale for example) in-game in Unity, but can't seem to find anything. Could you maybe do a tutorial on something like this?
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I ALWAYS WANTED A GUIDE FOR CINEMACHINE! I inmediatly knew that would be amazing but i had no idea how to use it xd
Cinemachine is the very first thing I install whenever I create a new project. It's very convenient and I can't understand why it's not imported by default in a new project.
Pretty awesome overview. Do you know how to apply cinemachine to a mobile RTS game?
For first person would the default camera be better?
I suggest you should focus on unity dots. There are almost no structured dots tutorials. Maybe a udemy tutorial etc. would be really cool
Sir do you have any full course on Unity. From Beginners to Masters. If not please suggest one.
I always start any Unity project, prototype or not, by installing Cinemachine :D
"if you are not using cinemachine, you are doing it wrong" -someone
Cinemachine is really really cool but it create a lots of garbage which can be somewhat painful for some people.
Wow-what a shocker, cinemachine, the most unknown asset of all time ;)
Cinemachine is really handy for smaller-scale projects, but once you start to scale up, it's *really* not something to rely on. It's caused us so many headaches on every project once we got deeper into it.
Can you explain what the "physical camera" ?
How can I get Cinemachine for a Unity 2017.2 version? I've been looking everywhere and I can't find one
Needless to say, that title is... too over the top.
What if my player is just a ball and i want to rotate my camera around the ball when user press a key such that camera rotates kind of 90 degrees around the ball and left or right side ( whichever side we choose to rotate ) becomes front side. Can I achieved smooth camera movement by cinemachine? I don't want mouse to affect camera. As I'm making game for mobile, I want only buttons to affect the camera.
Damn. Love ur content
How you do top down camera please ?
how can i download character set in the apartment scene?
If people don't know about it, that speaks volumes for how poorly Unity informs people about their engine imo.
Holy crap you used to work at Unity? :O
I make most time 2d games with simple camera movement and not needed for cinemachine. So I never tried it because of this. But good to see how strong it is.
I was wondering what tool you meant... What kind of newbie to Unity would you have to be, to not to have heard of Cinemachine? xD...
Can you make a tutorial about shadergraph
You can do the same with the default Camera and custom script. Cinemachine comes with bloats that a lot of us won't use. That said, there's no magic in Cinemachine
I'm still trying to figure out how to use this type of camera with my MMO but, I know when I do, it's going to be a smash.
Next up, the incredible hidden gem of text mesh pro. Then the super obscure pro builder
Thankfully, Text Mesh Pro is included in Unity now 😉
@@GameDevGuide As far as I am aware that was the intent with probuilder at some point for the 2021 builds, but nothing yet.
I just wish the official documentation was as coherent as this video.
yes
1:33 yet another feature they should just include by default. I love Unity, but man, there's so much stuff they should just include in all your projects, shader graphs, timeline, cinemachine, that plugin that lets you see bones of an armature, 2D lights(i know they're included but you need to download URP and do a much of finagling to get them working lol), and probably a bunch of others I don't even know about...
If they included all that then more time make new project and more file size. Here is a fact. Empty unity project 1500 mb unreal 50 Godot 5
@@KalponicGames We can disable these features if we don't want them lol, Unity already does always include useless plugins...
There's no way an empty unreal project is 50 gb, i just googled it, it's 200mb lol
Love your content. But I don't think Cinemachine is an underused or that not a lot of people know about.
Kul video coment for algoritm
Cmon, Cinemachine is the first thing I import…same for new devs too
Isn't Cinemachine something that almost every Unity developer knows?
"The tool that you probably didn't know about"? Really?!) I thought it's like development w/Unity 101
wow never actually knew about this thing. hard coded these features by myself. bit of a waste of time
wtf :D
I'm so early (13 seconds after the video uploaded) I don't know what to say...
Ahh, let's go with this: Nah he tweakin lol
Anyway, thanks for the video ✌️
CZcams does not update everything in one time soo maybe or maybe not
that is so clickbaity :D
clickbait meh
clickbait
I'm sorry, but doing it yourself yields better results imo
Might as well not use unity because you can do it better yourself.
@@bezoro-personal 100% agreed, however i feel like with a huge project you can afford the hours a "perfect" camera takes. Solo-developing an Engine however is unsuitable 99.999% of the time, as it takes tremendous times the effort and you have to really know what you're doing to get a reasonable result
Cinemachine creates a lots of garbage, I try to avoid it if all I want is a simple camera follow/lookAt with some noise, but for very complex setups, Cinemachine is perfect.