How to set up pixel perfect camera with cinemachine in Unity

Quick demonstration on how to get the pixelperfect camera working with cinemachine in Unity.

[@capsey_]

Let's just appreciate that great person that told us everything we need in one 4 minutes vid with an explanation included

[@SuperMatthew345]

I was about to pull my hair out trying to find the solution. I had everything setup except my Update Method wasn't set properly. That did the trick, thank you so much!

[@IzzyLockhardt]

THANK YOU. My character was bugging out and setting the Update Method and Blend Update Method fixed this issue. I could not figure it out for the life of me. You saved me hours of googling. Appreciate you!

[@csondika]

I had a really serious scaling problem. I tried some script magic that worked at some point but didn't solve the issue. Adding the Cinemachine Pixel Perfect extension solved everything like a charm, I can even delete the code that I wrote earlier. Great!

[@SerpentineStudios.]

Great video, solved the issue I was having. Ty man!

[@Zavarzinia]

Thank you for your work!

[@DevBarns]

You are an absolute legend

[@davidmcdermott2580]

Awesome video!

[@logout3967]

You're a life saver!

[@xCookys]

thanks!! 3:21 was exactly what I was looking for!

[@TheComposerAX]

Hello and thanks for the tutorial! I think my camera works now but my character is not "snapping" on the pixels. How did you achieve this pixel perfect movement?

[@thesnazzyitalian1154]

Hey, you mentioned that you were able to fix the issue of the Camera Confinement not working. How did you manage to fix it? I haven't had any luck figuring that out.

[@JonelKingas]

something changed probably in those 4 years, I did everything same, only pixel perfect camera changed there are some options missing, but its not smooth... and its jiterry

[@CaptJazz869]

Is the pixel perfect extension supposed to manually set the camera orthographic size? I have the components set up as you have laid out in this video, but if I manually change the camera size to say 4, it doesn't automatically change to the right size (for a 640x360 game it should be 11.25) when I run my game. Any idea what's going on?

[@Edenal0n]

Thank you so much!

[@CactusbIah]

Finally worked after I set the Cinemachine virtual camera Orthographic size to 0.

[@zedpenguin]

this worked for me too

[@christophergraf5929]

Hey! This was very helpful. I am, however, having some trouble with the Confiner. I made an empty object and used a Polygon Collider 2D to surround the room, so the camera would not go outside. When I go to run it the player is forced OUTSIDE of the collider because they have a collider and Rigidbody2D themselves. How did you work around this? Did I set up the collider wrong? Is it a layering issue? Thanks so much for your help!

[@febrianerwin3728]

dont forget to check the isTrigger in the polygon collider 2d

[@linzenmeyer]

Watching this on my phone and I couldn't see the "issue" lol.... I'll take your word for it.... question tho....are you having the issue even tho you've set your sprites to point? or is this a "camera fix" if they are some/all set to bilinear? or another issue it fixes altogether?

[@lewismailey3110]

Thank you!

[@chris.davidoff]

THANK YOU!!

[@cobycurtis5209]

If it doesn't work for you. Turn the main camera size to 0. Then when you press play, the main camera will update to whatever the size you set on the CM vcam1 camera. Hope that helps.

[@SilencerXVIII]

Thank you for adding the 'late update' setting. That is not in the documentation!!!

[@Xeexist]

How do I control the orthographic scale of the cinemachine? Seems like pixel perfect camera's resolution takes precedence of the scale. You can see the difference when you click play at 0:10 and at 2:16 where the camera now zooms in

[@nick78698]

Cinemachine sets the orthographic scale based on the reference resolution and ppu. There is also a bug in the cinemachine brain. You need to use unity 2020. And install cinemachine 2.6.0 preview 5. They fixed that cinemachine brain now works with pixel perfect in fixed update. If you change the orthographic scale yourself it wouldn't be pixelperfect anymore 😉

[@youkergav]

Is there any way we can get the source code of this project? I'm having a lot of issues with jitter still which I think is related to movement. I'd like to see someone's implementation. I've been stuck on this issue for weeks..

[@magic00squirrel]

Same here, I've been pulling my hair out over this and it feels like I've tried every solution under the sun. Source code would be nice.

[@devoxdevelopment566]

is there any solution in the mean time?

[@brg1646]

When I add CinemachineBrain everything disappears in the camera view window? It can't see the tiles it seems.

[@JG-kb5nv]

THANK YOU I LOVE YOU

[@AhmadZaydan195]

I already change the update method but it still doesn't work

[@thereisnousernameleft]

Thanks for your video. However the pixel perfect setting will not work for me in Unity 2019.3.13f1 with URP (URP has an included PP Camera which is not compatible with the 2D PP pack). The URP included PP does not work for me at all trying with cinemachine or even in an blank project. Do you have any suggestion for that? :)

[@luisroca835]

Hi Sam, I hope you found the answer. I am also having the same problems, I am using URP and the solution of the video does not apply. I hope to hear from you! or Nick if he had the answer

[@thereisnousernameleft]

@@luisroca835 Hey Luis, I've updated to 2019.4, i had to >reasign< the 2D renderer in the game settings and camera. (did uninstall cinemachine and PP before). Then I set URP again with an 2D renderer. 1.) set the 2D renderer in the game settings and camera settings. 2.) set Pixel Perfect Camera (experimental - comes with URP) in the camera and set it up. 3.) be sure that your URP uses the 2D Renderer, not the standard URP settings 4.) After that install the package for cinemachine. That way it worked for me. I hope that helps you. If you still got issues, you can message me on twitter: @s4m_ur4i

[@luisroca835]

@@thereisnousernameleft I will try your recommendation. I am so glad for your quick response, Thanks!. I will download the latest 2019.4 version (actually I had de 2019.4.2, I hope 2009.4.3 makes the difference). Then I will try to follow your steps. Btw, beautiful pixel art on your web page and twitter, I am already following you, for sure I will contact you!

[@SnowPeaGames]

This fixes everything to an insane degree. Anyone following this now should follow this advice, it's like night and day. Thanks so much!

[@user-hs4lw9zt1j]

How do you make the game take up the entire screen? thx

[@carlos_7x]

Thanks for the video. Now I'm having issues using Canvas, since everything is shaking. This effect is only happening if I use Pixel Perfect Camera - without it, it works perfect. Anyone having this issue?

[@SaadTheGlad]

I’m gonna text this and if it works I’m gonna subscribe

[@hiiambarney4489]

With the amount of Retro Games going around I'm kinda disgusted by the fact that this hasn't been a built in feature for years now.

[@nonsuspicious]

It is now.

[@durrium]

This turned it WORSE for me haha... how can this be??? If anyone has any tips regarding this, please help

[@durrium]

Update! Reseting the camera and the cinemachine camera and followng you tips did it. However, the Orthographic size needed to be adjusted to 2.6 otherwise i got some serious issues. Try playing around with the Orthographic size in the cinemachine and see if it works for you :)

[@tankycatcool63]

ir squashing my images

[@nick78698]

Hey folks. Thanks for liking my video! I appreciate it! During the corona lockdown I had a lot of free time to do some fun stuff in unity. Since then I've moved on to more important real life stuff😉. I haven't looked at unity for over a year so I cannot say if this still works. I can imagine that the authors of pixelperfect and cinemachine have found a better way to make this work? I remember back then that cinemachine would get an update like every other week? Let's appreciate the work they put in to their 'free' code 😁. That being said. I still get a lot of notifications on this subject so I think it's time to share the source code. github.com/nburgmeijer/ZeldaLike. A big shout out to 'mister Taft creates' who started doing tutorials on this Zelda like game! I was just building on to his base to make it even better and comply to real world c# conventions(as probably seen in the source code). Go join his discord channel! discord.gg/3SQBUn5