Camera Code simple Issue... javascript please help!

Unity,Javascript!

so heres the problem... I made a camera script for my racing game so the camera will follow the car normally in 3rd person view, the script also involves when the car speeds up it zooms out a little but i think that works well. also when the car reverses it is supposed to go infront of the car and look at it from reverse (like in gta5). this all works how its supposed to except for one problem. when i first run the scene the camera always starts out infront of the car instead of behind it! when i start moving forward it fixes but why is this problem happening and can I fix it. any help is appreciated thanks!

Code (JavaScript):

1. #pragma strict
2. var car : Transform;
3. var distance : float = 6.4;
4. var height : float = 1.4;
5. var rotationDamping : float = 3.0;
6. var heightDamping : float = 2.0;
7. var zoomRacio : float = 0.5;
8. var DefaultFOV : float = 60;
9. private var rotationVector : Vector3;
10. function Start () {
11.  
12. }
13.  
14. function LateUpdate () {
15. var wantedAngle = rotationVector.y;
16. var wantedHeight = car.position.y + height;
17. var myAngle = transform.eulerAngles.y;
18. var myHeight = transform.position.y;
19. myAngle = Mathf.LerpAngle(myAngle, wantedAngle,rotationDamping*Time.deltaTime);
20. myHeight = Mathf.Lerp(myHeight,wantedHeight, heightDamping*Time.deltaTime);
21. var currentRotation = Quaternion.Euler(0,myAngle,0);
22. transform.position = car.position;
23. transform.position -= currentRotation*Vector3.forward*distance;
24. transform.position.y = myHeight;
25. transform.LookAt(car);
26. }
27. function FixedUpdate () {
28. var localVelocity = car.InverseTransformDirection(car.rigidbody.velocity);
29. if (localVelocity.z<-0.5) {
30. rotationVector.y = car.eulerAngles.y + 180;
31. }
32. else {
33. rotationVector.y = car.eulerAngles.y;
34. }
35. var acc = car.rigidbody.velocity.magnitude;
36. camera.fieldOfView = DefaultFOV + acc*zoomRacio;
37.  
38. }

 

First, sorry if I was kind of harsh, but I hope, you know, what I meant with staying in a thread for a script if the problem is in there. For this problem, could you make a screenshot or explain, where the camera is at the beginning of the scene before playing it? Either, your camera is already in front of the car before starting the game, or some variable is missing in your script above and gets its value first when you move your car.

 

thansk for the help, there ill post a screenshot along with this but before the scene starts the camera is behind the car not infront and it instantly switches, so that rules that out. heres the

screenshot

im not sure if your able to see the picture or not please tell me

 

there we go sorry

 

Could you comment out line 30 and see what happens?

 

I tried that and it just made it worse, instead of the issue fixing when i start driving it just stayed in that view... any other ideas?

 

found a solution!
on line 29 i had a value of -0.5, i figured that probably had something to do with it so i changed it to positive 0.5 and it fixed it perfectly. i think i had it so my car was always moving backwards really slowly and that why when i stopped it also when back to reverse view. thanks for all the help anyways and I still need help with a few other problems!

 

Thought of something like that being a wrong velocity or something on your car as your cam reacted right when driving forward, glad you made it