Zoom Camera from C# in Unity

Question

I am creating endless running game. I want to zoom camera when player dies to the player. I have tried using camera.FieldOfView, but it does not work. Is there another way to zoom In camera to the object when particular condition becomes true. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

As I said the trick you can use is to just activate Smooth Camera Follow when your player dies. You can take the script for Smooth Follow from this answer.

Now,

• Attach it to camera.
• Play and properly configure it, as you want.
• Disable the script.
• Enable it when your player dies.

Note: This is for 3D environment, as you are trying to change FOV of camera, which is applicable in perspective view. If you are developing a 2D game then let me know.

Update: As you already have camera follow script for your 2D game, just change the Camera.main.orthographicSize.

Camera.main.orthographicSize = 1;

You can also make a coroutine for some smooth effect

IEnumerator ZoomIn ()
    {
        while (Camera.main.orthographicSize > 1) {
            yield return new WaitForSeconds (0.01f);
            Camera.main.orthographicSize -= 0.1f;
        }
    }

Just call StartCoroutine ("ZoomIn"); once when your player dies.