Why Does Camera Anchor Reset?

[jmarsh411]

I am another one of those people working on a multiplayer game where one top-down camera is supposed to follow multiple players. I saw this feature is in the backlog, but in the meantime I don't wanna hold up my game waiting for this. For what it's worth I'm using UCC version 2.2.8 with the Photon add-on.

The best workaround I have so far is to create an arbitrary game object which follows the center of the player via a script. It will also tell the camera to adjust its view distance based on character distance. This works well, but I have a small problem that the anchor is being reset in the private InitializeAnchor method since it's not a child of the character.

        private void InitializeAnchor()
        {
            // Assign the anchor to the bone transform if auto anchor is enabled. Otherwise use the character's Transform.
            Transform anchor = null;
            if (m_AutoAnchor && (anchor = m_Character.GetComponent<Animator>().GetBoneTransform(m_AutoAnchorBone)) != null) {
                m_Anchor = anchor;
            } else if (m_Anchor != null && !m_Anchor.IsChildOf(m_Character.transform)) {
                m_Anchor = null;
            }

            if (m_Anchor == null) {
                m_Anchor = m_CharacterTransform;
            }
        }

I assume all code that's there is for good reason, so I'm wondering why this reset is needed. Nothing seems to go wrong if I just drag the anchor back in at runtime.

 

[Justin]

An anchor is necessary so that code is ensuring an anchor is set. An arbitrary GameObject is the right approach for that situation.

 

[jmarsh411]

Thanks for the reply. The camera for my game isn't meant to follow a specific player or any of that player's bones, so I'll just comment that line out.