WEEKLY NARRATIVE
One of the larger concerns with our game is that the camera is pretty bad. Jimmy and I spent a lot of time last term trying to create one from scratch but couldn't handle all clipping cases. The camera by the end of the term was disorienting players.
This term, we decided to scrap our original camera and use a free asset named Cinemachine instead. With a free look camera and collision avoidance, it had everything we needed for our game. Utkarsh, Tin, and I met on Thursday to test it out in Unity. It worked as we wanted it, so I implemented it into the game.
We ran into a problem with how Cinemachine handles camera movement. Cinemachine has its own way of reading input, but we were already using Rewired, which is supposed to be handling all input for us. Zak and I spent Friday night hooking Cinemachine and Rewired together. Luckily, there was an article explaining exactly what to do to make them work together.
After a few bug fixes over the weekend, Cinemachine was successfully implemented into the game.
CONTENT WITH HOURS
- Cinemachine implementation + debug (5.5 Hours)
- Meetings (4 Hours)
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| Cinemachine in action. |
WORKFLOW EXAMPLES
POSITIVE OUTCOMES
- Cinemachine invalidated weeks of work from multiple people within thirty minutes of using it.
- I'm still sick but my guts don't feel like bursting anymore
NEGATIVE OUTCOMES
- I think I have stomach flu
- or regular flu
- last night i had bad stomach cramps at 5am
- lucky lucky it started to subside enough that I could knock out at 6:30am
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