CineCam: Cinematic Camera Control Plugin for Godot

Overview

CineCam is a plugin that provides a simple but powerful method to deal with multi-camera systems and animating camera transitions. It aims to allow the user to replicate real life cinematographic movement in 3D scenes, offering advanced camera control and a transition systems integrated seamlessly with the Godot Editor.

Key Features

• Virtual Cameras: Customizable camera nodes offering multiple modes for following and aiming at targets.
• Camera Transitions: A custom editor windows and resource allows the customisation of transitions between cameras.

Usage

Setting Up a Virtual Camera

1. Add VirtualCamera nodes to your scene.
2. Configure the virtual cameras using the Inspector.
3. Create a TransitionDictionary .tres file in your project
4. Create a CameraDirector in your scene, and add a Camera3D child to it
5. Assign the resource created above to your director node
6. Configure your transitions using the custom plugin window

Example

A basic example scene can be found in the examples folder

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Acknowledgements

This plugin was developed as part of my bachelor thesis at Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science.

Contact

For any questions or issues, please open an issue on the GitHub repository or contact the author.