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Scripting an Orbit Camera

Scripting an Orbit Camera

0:00 with Nick Pettit

An orbit camera script will allow a camera to move in circles around an object. In the update method of this script, we're going to rotate the camera around a transform and then make sure the camera is also still looking at that transform.

Unity Documentation

  • Transform.RotateAround() - The RotateAround() method on the Transform class will rotate an object around a point in 3D space.
  • Transform.LookAt() - The LookAt() method on the Transform class will rotate the transform so that it points at a target vector.

Resources

  • Cameras in Unity - Project Files - This is a zip file that contains the Unity project for this course. Download the file, unzip it, and then in your file browser (Finder on OS X and Exporer on Windows) navigate to Cameras in Unity > Assets > _Scenes. Finally, choose the scene you'd like to open.

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