Align with view programmatically

After hours of searching, I finally found an undocumented way to get access to the scene Camera, but sadly, although you can read the information from that, the camera's transform got reset every frame, so changing its transform.position doesn't help much (actually I managed to be able to change x & y but not z) . You can not change the projection type or orthographic size neither. You can only change the rotation (tested against Unity 3.5) . Anyway, here's a reference :

 SceneView sceneView     = SceneView.lastActiveSceneView;
 Camera cam        = sceneView.camera; //here is the scene camera
 
 //you may want to use MonoBehaviour.print(camera.transform.position) here
 
 //these lines of code won't work
 cam.isOrthoGraphic    = true;
 cam.orthographic    = true;
 cam.orthographicSize    = Sceen.height/2;
 
 
 //changing scene view's transform.position won't have any effect
 //use pivot to change x, y (but not z)
 Vector3 position = sceneView.pivot;
 position.x = 0;
 position.y = 0;
 position.z = - Screen.height/2f/Mathf.Tan(cam.fieldOfView/2*Mathf.PI/180); //this usually made the camera to pixel perfect (1 Unit : 1 pixel), but won't work for Scene camera
 
 //changing rotation will works, though
 sceneView.rotation        = new Quaternion(0,0,0,1);
 
 //remember to tell the sceneView to repaint
 sceneView.Repaint();

That's it, undocumented things, so it might be change anytime. Use with your own risk.

I know this is an old thread, but it's the first thing i found on google when researching.

Anyway, here is an Editor script that i wrote to automatically align my scene view with what is happening in my game view whilst in play mode.

The camera follows the position of a target transform, which you drag on the transform of whatever your main camera is set to follow in the inspector).

So far i have been finding it very useful when sitting my game window next to my scene window and looking at visual debugging info, such as debug.draw-line etc. I am using this with an orbit style cam and it seems to work fine, though it may need some slight modification to work with other purposes. It does not zoom in or out automatically but it was suitable for my needs and should be relatively straight forward to modify etc.

 using UnityEngine;
 using UnityEditor;
 using System.Collections;
 
 public class AlignSceneViewWithMainCamera : MonoBehaviour {
 
     Camera mainCamera;
     public Transform target;
 
     void Start()
     {
         mainCamera = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("MainCamera").GetComponent<Camera>();
     }
 
     void OnRenderObject()
     {
 
         if (SceneView.lastActiveSceneView != null && SceneView.lastActiveSceneView.camera == Camera.current) 
         {                
             if (mainCamera != null) 
             {
                 SceneView.lastActiveSceneView.pivot = target.position;
                 SceneView.lastActiveSceneView.rotation = mainCamera.transform.rotation;
                 SceneView.lastActiveSceneView.Repaint ();
             }
         }
     }
 }

I recently worked on an Editor tool where I had to set up waypoints for the camera movements so in case anyone stumbles across the same requirement in the future, this is what I used (Unity 2017.4):

 // get scene view camera
 SceneView view = SceneView.lastActiveSceneView;
 Camera cam = view.camera;
 
 // use cam.transform to get the position and rotation of the object you want to align to the current view.
 

Btw, in case you want to do the reverse, i.e, align the scene view to a gameobject, here is one way to do it:

 // get the view reference
 SceneView view = SceneView.lastActiveSceneView;
 // align the scene camera to the transform
 view.AlignViewToObject(viewObject.transform); //viewObject is the gameobject you want to align the view to
 

My understanding is that in the context of editor scripts, Camera.current refers to (or at least may refer to) the scene view camera. It's recommended that you check it against null first to make sure the reference is valid, but if you can read the camera's transform using this method, it seems that would be sufficient for what you describe.

Do you mean you want to have the scene view aligned with the in game camera? If that's what you want just select the game camera in your hierarchy and select GameObject->Align view with selected.