How to set far and near clipping plane of camera with scripting

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I have a script attached to a player that creates a main camera when the game is played putting the camera as a child of the player object. Then i want to refer to that camera object and set values for the near and far clipping planes of that camera to reduce draw distance.

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Answer by AlucardJay · Oct 26, 2016 at 12:41 PM

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Camera.html

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Camera-nearClipPlane.html

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Camera-farClipPlane.html

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Rardok · Oct 26, 2016 at 02:42 PM 0

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What i want to do is change the farClipPlane variable of a child camera object that gets created at runtime. And i don't know how to code that.

AlucardJay Rardok · Oct 27, 2016 at 08:20 AM 1

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Ween you create the camera, store a reference to it in a variable. This saves the problem of finding it again.

Once you have a reference pointer to the camera, you can access/modify all the camera properties.

 // creating by instantiating prefab :
 GameObject cameraObject = (GameObject)Instantiate( myCameraPrefab );
 Camera myCamera = cameraObject.GetComponent< Camera >();
 
 // creating by adding component :
 Camera myCamera = gameObject.AddComponent< Camera >();
 
 // now you have a reference pointer to the camera, modify properties :
 myCamera.nearClipPlane = 0.05f;
 myCamera.farClipPlane = 100f;

Rardok AlucardJay · Oct 27, 2016 at 08:28 AM 0

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This worked, thanks.

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