Camera Target Dummy

Aiming the camera in the viewport might be a bit easier if it had a target dummy, like the one that the "Target Camera" in 3dsmax has. That way, I would use the transform and rotate gizmos to put the dummy where I want the camera aimed.

 

Do you mean the ingame camera, or the scene view camera?

 

The ingame camera.

Having a little doo-hikey in the scene that I can grab and move around to point the camera is often the easiest way to manipulate the camera in 3dsmax/Maya, and I'm thinking it would be a nice addition to the Unity interface as well.

 

Agreed.

 

I'll third that!
That's how I do almost all of my camera movement in Cinema 4D.

 

The thing is:

How does this work when you animate stufff. The camera's rotation is no different than any other GameObject's... I don't want to add targetting to all game objects...

Any ideas?

 

The "aiming" gizmo would definitely be good for cameras and lights in the authoring environment. These are items that you tend to want to aim at precise points while composing your scene, unlike geometry.

At run-time, the gizmos wouldn't be as big a help since we would tend to aim cameras, lights, geometry, etc. with "lookAt" scripting then.