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Question by Yamf · Jul 09, 2015 at 09:24 PM · camerathird-personviewfirst-person

How do i combine first and third person views?

I recently started a new project and i'm not sure about how to go about doing this. I want to be able to have a first person view as well as a third. Any suggestions would come in handy.

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Have two cameras?

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A first person camera and a third person camera are just cameras in different positions. If you want to switch smoothly in between the two, I answered a similar question here.

You can find an actual project that contains this example here.

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Answer by jabez · Jul 10, 2015 at 04:40 AM

Here's a list of steps that will get you started if you follow them correctly.

Have 1 camera as the main camera.

Have either 4 vector3s or 2 gameobjects that represent the First Person Position/Rotation & the Third Person Position/Rotation.

Make an enum or a bool to identify if the camera state is first person or third.

Make 2 functions one for first person & one for third.

In the functions Use Vector3.lerp & Quaternion.lerp to lerp between the positions & the rotations.

Use OnButtonDown switch the camera state.

& You're done :D.

Hopefully this helps, - Jabez.

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