Main Camera Switch?

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Hi Everyone, I've lately Been making an FPS Game, and There are two Cameras, One Camera is FPS and one is Third Person, I've seen Collider changes on other questions and I'm like What? So Is there a Way I Can Trigger a Camera Switch through a Binded Key?

Thanks everyone

Answer 1

You can activate and deactivate cameras if you can get a hold of the object that holds them.

//cameraObject is the gameObject which holds the camera

cameraObject.camera.active = false;

So If you had a script which kept track of all the cameras in your scene then you could switch cameras easily. For example here is a function which would go through an array of camera objects and turn a certain one on (based on the index sent to it).

var cameras : GameObject[];

function SelectCamera (index : int) {
    for (var i : int=0 ;i<wcameras.length; i++) {
    // Activate the selected camera
        if (i == index){
            cameras[i].camera.active = true;
    // Deactivate all other cameras
        }else{
        cameras[i].camera.active = false;
    }

You could use this function by calling it with a message

BroadcastMessage ("SelectCamera", 1);

or by outright calling it

SelectCamera(1);

You just need to get hold of the instance of the script it's in

Answer 2

Answer by Narven · May 02, 2010 at 06:40 AM

You can use something like

public Camera backCamera;
public Camera topDownCamera;

in the update...

if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Alpha1)) { driverCamera.camera.active = false; topDownCamera.camera.active = true; }

 if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Alpha2))
 {
     topDownCamera.camera.active = false;
     backCamera.camera.active = true;
 }

}

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Chistabo · Dec 18, 2014 at 04:02 PM 0

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Using this answer brought a loud smile on my face (that is, I vote Up, but can not - reputation issue). using UnityEngine; using System.Collections;

 public class Fader : $$anonymous$$onoBehaviour {
     public GameObject extraCamera;
     void Start() {
         Rect currentRes = new Rect(-Screen.width * 0.5f, -Screen.height * 0.5f, Screen.width, Screen.height);
         guiTexture.pixelInset = currentRes;
         extraCamera.camera.enabled = false;
     }
 }

Then I simply 'attached' (drag&drop) my secondary camera ($$anonymous$$$$anonymous$$ap) from Hierarchy to Inspector of 'Fader' GameObject.

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Simon

Answer 3

Answer by Sebas · Apr 04, 2010 at 01:08 AM

Sure you can. The search function is your friend. See this Answer

If you combine this with pressing a key, you should be all set. If you want it to be more fancy and smoothly transition between both cameras, see this forum thread.

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