Camera moves into Object instead of following

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hi there,

I got the following code: It's my camera class, following an object, ignoring the y-Rotation, ideal for a game that just follows one direction, like mine. Now, the "Distance" gets smaller, that means the camera moves into the object, and I have absolutely not idea why it does that.

using UnityEngine;

using System.Collections;

public class StaticCamera : MonoBehaviour

 public Transform Sph;

 public Vector3 pSph;

 public float height = 10f;

 public float distance = 10f;

 public float Dampening = 1f;



 void LateUpdate()

 {

     pSph = Sph.position;



     float desHeight = pSph.y + height;

     float curHeight = transform.position.y;



     curHeight = Mathf.Lerp(curHeight, desHeight, Time.deltaTime *Dampening);



     transform.position = pSph;

     transform.position -= Vector3.forward * distance;

     transform.position += new Vector3(0,desHeight,0);

     //transform.Translate(0,curHeight*Time.deltaTime,0);

     /*

      * float desX = Mathf.Lerp(transform.position.x, Sph.position.x,Dampening*Time.deltaTime);

     float desZ = Mathf.Lerp(transform.position.z, Sph.position.z,Dampening*Time.deltaTime);

     transform.position = new Vector3(desX,0f+15f,desZ);

     */

     //Quaternion rtn = Quaternion.Euler(15,0,15);

     //transform.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(gameObject.transform.rotation, rtn, Time.deltaTime*10);

     transform.LookAt(Sph);

     Debug.Log("Distance: " + Vector3.Distance(gameObject.transform.position, Sph.position));

 }

}

Answer 1

Answer by daemonfire · Nov 18, 2010 at 07:02 PM

Goch, found the problem. Even though height, etc. were set inside the script the editor had overwritten it to zero =) This explains a lot of "bugs" to me now. Man, I was totally broken, because Vector3.up * height (=10f) returned (0,0,0).

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Proclyon · Nov 18, 2010 at 07:25 PM 0

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Oh yeah we all remember one of those mistakes all right :D The classic "I can't believe that THAT was the error" errors

by0log1c · Mar 03, 2011 at 03:52 PM 0

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Yeah, that's something we all learned the hard way: Inspector values override scripts' values.

Camera moves into Object instead of following

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