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Jake Salo
Jake Salo
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Posted by Jake Salo
Jake Salo
13,175 Points

Unity5 - orbiting mouse controlled camera goes through terrain

i have a custom roll-a-ball game with a mouse orbiting camera and im having serious issues with it. basically, whenever the player nears something with a collider (i.e. a wall or a tree or rock etc...), then the camera inverts it's coords and either goes outside of the map or inside of the player. I have looked at the following thread and tried that solution but couldn't get that working so maybe someone on here could help me out, thanks.

http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/750104/orbiting-mouse-controlled-camera-goes-thru-terrain.html

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class CameraController : MonoBehaviour
{

    public GameObject player;
    private Camera camera;

    public Transform target;
    public float distance = 10.0f;
    public float xSpeed = 120.0f;
    public float ySpeed = 120.0f;

    public float yMinLimit = 20.0f;
    public float yMaxLimit = 150.0f;

    public float distanceMin = 5.0f;
    public float distanceMax = 15f;

    private Rigidbody rigidbody;

    float x = 0.0f;
    float y = 0.0f;

    private Vector3 offset;

    // Use this for initialization
    void Start()
    {
        Vector3 angles = transform.eulerAngles;
        x = angles.y;
        y = angles.x;

        camera = GetComponent<Camera>();

        rigidbody = GetComponent<Rigidbody>();

        // Make the rigid body not change rotation
        if (rigidbody != null)
        {
            rigidbody.freezeRotation = true;
        }


        Vector3 v = new Vector3(0.0f, 0.0f, 5);


        offset = transform.position - (player.transform.position - v);
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void LateUpdate()
    {
        Debug.Log(camera.transform.position);

        transform.position = player.transform.position + offset;
        if (target)
        {
            x += Input.GetAxis("Mouse X") * xSpeed * distance * 0.02f;
            y -= Input.GetAxis("Mouse Y") * ySpeed * 0.02f;

            y = ClampAngle(y, yMinLimit, yMaxLimit);

            Quaternion rotation = Quaternion.Euler(y, x, 0);

            distance = Mathf.Clamp(distance - Input.GetAxis("Mouse ScrollWheel") * 5, distanceMin, distanceMax);

            RaycastHit hit;
            if (Physics.Linecast(target.position, transform.position, out hit))
            {
                distance -= hit.distance;
            }
            Vector3 negDistance = new Vector3(0.0f, 0.0f, -distance);
            Vector3 position = rotation * negDistance + target.position;

            transform.rotation = rotation;
            transform.position = position;
        }
    }

    public static float ClampAngle(float angle, float min, float max)
    {
        if (angle < -360F)
            angle += 360F;
        if (angle > 360F)
            angle -= 360F;
        return Mathf.Clamp(angle, min, max);
    }
}