Third Person Camera

A highly configurable feature-rich third person camera.

Features

• Tons of configuration options
• Layer based reposition clipping
• Over-the-shoulder horizontal offset and realtime shoulder swapping
• Zoom, rotate horizontally/vertically, adjust height
• Separate horizontal and vertical rotation speeds and sensitivities
• Extensible
• Control the camera through scripting or let it update itself with Unity's Input system
• Inlcluded prefab works out of the box

Changelog

• 1.1.1 (Current)
  • Added function to retrieve a world-raycasted point given a screen point
• 1.1.0
  • Added lookTarget property to override lookInput, causing camera to forcibly rotate to look at another transform.
  • Removed [ExecuteAlways] from the camera's behaviour
  • Fixed _targetZoom bug in Start() and inspector editing
  • Added some public utilities
• 1.0.1
  • Package fix for importing into Unity through the Package Manager
  • Small code adjustments
• 1.0.0
  • Initial release

Getting Started

1. Add the package to Unity through the Package Manager or download the zipped version and extract it to your assets folder.
2. Drag and drop the Samples/ThirdPersonCamera.prefab into your scene.
3. Assign a follow target if needed.
   
   That's it!

Configuration

Nearly every field on the ThirdPersonCamera component has a tooltip.

Field	Description	Example Value
Draw Debug	Enables debug logging and additional debug lines.
Draw Gizmos	Enables gizmos.
Follow Target	The Transform the camera should physically follow.	Your character, any POI, etc.
Self Get Player Input	Allows this camera to retrieve input data to update itself without external intervention.
Invert Horizontal Camera Input	All incoming horizontal input will be inverted.
Invert Vertical Camera Input	All incoming vertical input will be inverted.
Move Lerp Speed	How fast the camera lerps to the assigned follow target.	10
Zoom Lerp Speed	How fast the camera's zoom lerps in and out.	10
Min Zoom In	How close the camera can zoom into its origin.	1
Max Zoom Out	How far the camera can zoom out from its origin.	30
Camera	The actual camera component.
Height Transform	The transform which controls the height aspect of the camera. Must be a child of the main transform.
Horizontal Offset Transform	The transform which controls the horizontal offset, the "over the shoulder" aspect. Must be a child of the height transform.
X Axis	The transform which controls X axis rotation. Must be a child of the horizontal offset transform.
Camera Transform	The transform which has the Camera component on it. Must be a child of the X Axis transform.
Look Up Max Angle	The "maximum" look up angle in degrees. This is usually a negative number since a negative angle is required to rotate the camera upwards.	-60
Look Down Min Angle	The "minimum" look down angle in degrees. This is usually a positive number since a positive angle is required to rotate the camera downwards.	90
Horizontal Rotation Lerp Speed	How fast the horizontal rotation lerps.	1
Horizontal Rotation Sensitivity	The horizontal rotation sensitivity.	1
Vertical Rotation Lerp Speed	How fast the vertical rotation lerps.	1
Vertical Rotation Sensitivity	The vertical rotation sensitivity.	1
Camera Clipping Layermask	All layers that the camera can be clipped with.	Default
Forward Camera Clip Radius	The forward raycast spherical radius for detecting camera clipping.	0.1
Horizontal Camera Clip Radius	The horizontal raycast spherical radius for detected camera clipping.	0.1
Camera Clip Point Offset	How far away from the raycasted clip point the camera will be placed on the hit point's normal.	0.25
Camera Clipping Lerp Speed	How fast the camera lerps to the clip point offset. The higher the value, the less likely clipped geometry will be visible.	100