How To Desync A Player's Camera?

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Currently I'm creating a vaulting mechanic for the player when he collides right at the edge of an object, when doing so I cast raycasts to calculate the position the player should land in and I teleport him to that position. However, the camera teleports as well but I'd prefer the camera to smoothly go back to the player. I tried using Vector3.SmoothDamp and so on but it created its own list of issues. Does anyone know any solution? Thanks for any help.

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Answer by DMG_Kestin · yesterday

Can you provide us with a GIF animation? Its hard to tell what problem your facing by just reading a question!

But if it helps I always use Lerp! I personally don't like having a extra variable for SmoothDamp.

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Lem0nz · yesterday 0

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If this isn't clear enough I can put another if you want. But as you see in the gif, my player collides at the edge of the object and gets teleported to a position I calculate through raycasts. However, the problem here is the camera, it creates this stutter position because we are teleporting the player. What I'd like to do is find a way to desync the camera so it can come back to the player smoothly instead of having that stutter effect.

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DMG_Kestin Lem0nz · yesterday 0

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Sorry the link seems to be broken! Is the camera being set by transform.position = player.position? Cuz if so try putting this code in FixedUpdate and add Vector3.Lerp!

If you don't wan't the (catch up) effect all the time put it in a Coroutine and check if the distance between the player and the camera is 0.01 then resume normal update.

 Coroutine _camDesync;
 
 void Update()
 {
     if(_camDesync) return;
     transform.position = player.position
 }
 
 IEnumerator DesyncCam()
 {
     while(Vector3.Distance(transform.position, player.position) > 0.01)
     {
         transform.position = Vector3.Lerp(transform.position, player.position, 15 * Time.deltaTime);
         yield return new WaitForEndOfFrame();
     }
     _camDesync = null;
 }

(Note: this code was written from memory and needs fixing)

Lem0nz DMG_Kestin · yesterday 0

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I'm struggling to upload a gif for some apparent reason so I apologize on making this seem confusing. Anyway, I'll try to explain this in further detail. The game is a First person 3-D game, I'm trying to create a vaulting mechanic where if the player just barely hits the edge of an object while sprinting, he can climb over the object however he maintains his speed and momentum. The way I do this is through raycasting and teleporting the player to the position of the raycasts if certain conditions are met. However, the vaulting mechanic itself is functioning rather well but the player camera has a moment of lag because we are teleporting the player. I'm trying to find a way to desync the camera in order to avoid this "lag" that happens as a result of the teleportation. The problem in using lerp is that its rather slow if the player is moving extremely fast.

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