Switching between cameras

Question

Hi, I would like to switch between cameras depending on the position of my player position, how can I do this please?

Thanks a lot for your time.

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 straydogstrut · Apr 02, 2010 at 02:02 PM

DastardlyBanana's answer would be more flexible, but i'll post my (very simple!) answer here anyway:

You could check for a collision with a collider and then enabled/disable your cameras, so:

var Camera1 : Camera; var Camera2 : Camera;

function Start(){
    Camera1.enabled = true;
    Camera2.enabled = false;

function OnTriggerEnter (other : Collider) {

 if(other.gameObject.name == "switch_camera"){

     Camera1.enabled = false;
     Camera2.enabled = true;

 }

function OnTriggerExit (other : Collider) {

 if(other.gameObject.name == "switch_camera"){

     Camera1.enabled = true;
     Camera2.enabled = false;

 }

Camera1 and Camera2 are assigned in the editor, or you could assign them with code.

Cheers.

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Answer 3

Answer by askerer · Apr 22, 2010 at 09:19 AM

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Answer 4

Answer by ImRipken · Oct 07, 2016 at 10:03 PM

This script worked for me. It only works for 2 camera's as far as I know but you might be able to edit it.

var cam1 : Camera; var cam2 : Camera;

function Start() { cam1.enabled = true; cam2.enabled = false; }

function Update() {

 if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.C)) {
     cam1.enabled = !cam1.enabled;
     cam2.enabled = !cam2.enabled;
 }

}

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