How to use Cameras in Unity: Cinemachine Virtual Cameras Explained

Learn how to use Cinemachine Virtual Cameras in Unity to capture a cinematic feel for your games!
This tutorial provides a detailed break down of the Virtual Camera component and all of its properties, as well as a general overview of Cinemachine!
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Intro: 0:00
Installing Cinemachine and Setup: 0:46
How Cinemachine Works: 1:24
What do Virtual Cameras do: 1:40
Virtual Camera Lens Properties: 2:33
The Properties that make Virtual Cameras Special: 3:30
The Follow Property: 4:18
The Body Property Explained: 4:44
Body Properties: 5:46
Aim Properties: 7:40
Status Property: 8:58
Standby Update Property: 9:31
Game Window Guides Property: 10:15
Save during Gameplay Property: 10:34
Priority Property: 11:01
Blend Hint Property: 11:25
Inherit Position Property: 12:13
On Camera Live Event Property: 12:38
Noise Property: 13:07
In the future: 13:47
Outro: 14:00

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Hey all! Happy new year! 🎉 I'm excited to share this brand new tutorial with you all! Cinemachine has been a ton of fun to learn, and there's still plenty more to come. If you'd like to vote on the next tutorial that we'll cover on this channel, voting is now live! Check it out here: www.patreon.com/posts/60613685

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[@corriedotdev]

@@iHeartGameDev in the process of this video hell yeah, not so sure about my implementation 😂 multi platform was my main worry, the control of the camera was going to get messy for making android to PC build for example. Cinemachine is absolutely going to clean it up so going to switch I think 🙃 Thanks again 👍

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very cool examples, wonder how much work it took those devs back then to make those systems work when cinemachine lets us do a dropdown box! wow!

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[@Armetron]

Amazing video An idea for a future video that may have to do with cinemachine. I would love to know how to make a kill cam system where it shows you the past few seconds from different camera angles similar to Rainbow Six Siege (first person view of person who killed you and follow cameras for thrown objects like grenades)

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[@septimania3483]

Can you make a tutorial to make this character looking in the same direction than the camera by using the script AnimationandMovementController?

[@IvanHerenchakJones]

Whats the best body follow setup for following a playerobject through a waterslide with lots of corkscrews?

[@PaulaRodriguez-op9yw]

So good! Can you make a video showing how to make to animations interact among them? I mean, like in a game when you kill the enemy stabbing it, and the enemy reacts with your sword with pain. I dont know if Im explaining myself hahaha

[@craftercis]

Hey! How did you fix the jamo character rotation when body type is 3e person?

[@mb2001]

5:55 How did you make the character controller (I assume?) move in relation to this camera?

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Make a video explaining how to switch cameras please!

[@sachinbhandari414]

what is difference between composer and hard look at in Aim part of cinemachine. Both of them try to keep the gameObject in view

[@blitzkreig4887]

Is it possible for you to compile all Cinemachine features as a comprehensive course either on Patreon or Udemy ? There is no "Deep Dive in Cinemachine/Timeline" course, which explores all that Unity offers. I understand that this must be a niche up until now (most indie gamedevs won't use Cinematics as much). But given the Ziva, Weta acquisitions, more mainstream audience will get created - Movie makers, YT content creators etc. Please do consider if you can

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I can control virtual camera with mouse like freelook camera?

[@Caporai]

I'm feeling bad not encountering Cinemachine sooner (such a great tool and asset). Currently doing a Pacman inspiring 3D game as a school project. I really wanted a camera like from Luigi's Mansion: * that follows the player if a room is big. * stops moving postion when player close to the walls (as well as room is little.) * and finally when player leaves a room, it moves camera to a new location where plaver enters the new room. Because having my game zoomed out, I wont be able to see my models in the game properly and detailed.

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I need link for download cinemachine in assets store

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Cinemachine isn't in the asset store, it's in the package manager for free!

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What game is that at 6:36?

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[@sohjingkaisean3934]

Does anyone Know How to make a jumpscare using cinemachine

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Can You Make a Tutorial about fallguys camera system or like making a fallguys clone pls...

[@dibaterman]

Cinemachine is scary stuff, creating my own camera has been a trip in an of itself. Unity's philosophy of minimizing time spent being technical for time to incorporate creativity is very much more apparent with things like Cinemachine. So if I want to make a prototype combat method but get hung up on making a camera, cinemachine is made to want to simplify this by saying, just select stuff for your use case and go back to creating your combat system. I love Unity for this, but knowing how complex camera creation can be make Cinemachine so scary.

[@ultrawidescreengaming4329]

Does anymoby know what game it is at 6:36? thank you!

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Witchfire :)

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