Letting the player switch to a Cinemachine FreeLook camera

It's always good to give players choices and control in their game experience. In this recipe, we'll set up a mouse-controllable Cinemachine FreeLook camera and let the player switch to it.

Getting ready

This recipe adds to the previous one, so make a copy of that project folder and do your work for this recipe with that copy.

How to do it...

To explore Cinemachine, just follow these steps:

1. Ensure the Default Blend property of the Cinemachine Brain component in the Main Camera is set to Ease In Out. This means we'll have a smooth transition when switching between cameras.
2. Add a Cinemachine FreeLook camera GameObject to the scene (menu: Cinemachine | Ceate FreeLook Camera). You should see a new GameObject in the Hierarchy named CM FreeLook 1. Set the Priority property of the CinemachineFree Look (Script) component to zero.
3. Locate the mixamorig:neck GameObject in the Hierarchy inside MsLazer. We'll use this part of the MsLazer character to...