Triggering Timescale with Mousedown

Thanks This woks a bit for me.... But

1) I am only able to do this ONCE each time and no more

2) my startPos & endPos are distinct Vector 3's I must program by hand each time I use the script Since I have a FCP as the startPos of my ZoomIn script (and the endPos of my ZoomOut script) and a Plane as the endPos of my ZoomIn script (and the startPos of my ZoomOut script) can't I just be passing variables for this?

ie: how to make a thing's Transform > a Vector3?

Here is my Zoom in:

     var startPos: Vector3;
     var endPos: Vector3;
     var time : float;
   
 
     
     function On$$anonymous$$ouseDown () {
     
     var i = 0.0;
         var rate = 1.0/time;
         while (i < 1.0) {
         i += Time.deltaTime * rate;
         Camera.main.transform.position = Vector3.Lerp(startPos, endPos, i);
         yield; 
         
         }
 }

Zoom out is reverse:

         var startPos: Vector3;
         var endPos: Vector3;
         var time : float;
       
     
         
         function On$$anonymous$$ouseDown () {
         
         var i = 0.0;
             var rate = 1.0/time;
             while (i < 1.0) {
             i += Time.deltaTime * rate;
             Camera.main.transform.position = Vector3.Lerp(endPos, startPos, i);
             yield; 
             
             }
     }
 

When you zoom in and then back out, is your camera located in the center of startPos and endPos or does it actually complete the movement back to the start position. I feel like since both scripts check for the mouse to be clicked they both try to move your camera at the same time. if the camera gets stuck at the midpoint between startPos and endPos, then that means the camera is lerping in both scripts.

Thanks so much for your help Fifth!

Each script is on a different object/Trigger. I start the zoom in from a specific Vector3 that I have put in, not necessarily where the player is, but somewhere in the vicinity, so that it Jumps to my Vector3 StarPos and then slow mo's all the way to my specific endPos. Same thing with the Zoom out, after the player scrolls around in the vicinity they jump back through a Vector3 the Vector3 startPos and then all the way back to the EndPos that I have predefined...

So I am wondering if I can get rid of the startPos entirely and only define the endPos.??

Originally I had wanted to keep track of the startPos the return the player back exactly, but I actually prefer to define it by hand in a Vector3 that I will eventually make private...

Does that make sense?

Yes. First, find your player or camera by its tag or name and then use it's transform as the start point. That will get rid of the pre-set start point. I don't see anything in the scripts that you posted that would keep it from working multiple times. I will test then in a bit...

I created a script that handles both zoo$$anonymous$$g in and out. Typically, I always use lerp in an Update function. This doesn't mean you can't use it in a coroutine, I just didn't in my code. The script checks for the camera to be close to the desired position and then snaps it in place to stop lerping. You start the movement by clicking the mouse button.

Also, your camera can start anywhere and it lerp from that position and return back to that position. Check out how I use the camera's current transform as its starting position:

 #pragma strict
 
 var startPos: Vector3;
 var endPos: Vector3;
 private var movePos : Vector3;
 private var moving;
 var time : float;
 
 function Start () {
     startPos = Camera.main.transform.position;
 }
 
 function Update () {
     var i = 0.0;
     var rate = 1.0/time;
     
     // Checks for input to start lerp
     if (Input.Get$$anonymous$$ouseButtonDown (0) && !moving) {
         moving = true;
     }
     
     // Lerp from current position to movePos
     // moving keeps the camera from lerping to a different position while lerping to the first position
     if (moving) {
         i += Time.deltaTime * rate;
         Camera.main.transform.position = Vector3.Lerp(Camera.main.transform.position, movePos, i);
     }
     
     // movPos is set based on where the camera currently is (either startPos or endPos)
     if ( Camera.main.transform.position.z <= startPos.z+0.1 ) {
         Camera.main.transform.position = startPos;
         movePos = endPos;
         moving = false;
     }
     else if ( Camera.main.transform.position.z >= endPos.z-0.1 ) {
         Camera.main.transform.position = endPos;
         movePos = startPos;
         moving = false;
     }
 }

It's not the cleanest code, but it works. I modified your code to make it using the same variables, and I changed the mouse click part for testing purposes (I did not want to try to build an entire scene with triggers and everything). From this, you should be able to tweak your own code and figure out what the difference is between them and why yours won't work multiple times.