Mastering Unity Scripting

Cameras and curves

For cut-scenes, menu backgrounds, or simpler camera fly-throughs, you might just need the camera to travel roughly in a straight line that allows some curvature and fluctuation in speed as the camera moves using a smooth-in and smooth-out motion. This means that the camera picks up speed at the beginning and slowly drops in speed towards the end of the path. To achieve this, you can use a prescripted animation via Unity's animation editor, or you can use animation curves, which offer a high degree of flexibility and control over object transformations across time, as shown here:

Moving cameras with animation curves

To create a camera ...