Working with Unity's multi-purpose camera rig

Unity provides some Camera rigs, which can make setting up scenes much faster and help to test out ideas. In this recipe, you'll use a 3rd Person Character and the multi-purpose camera rig from the default Unity asset packages to quickly create a scene with a camera that automatically follows a character as it moves, smoothing rotating behind the character as the character changes direction:

How to do it...

To work with Unity's multi-purpose camera rig, just follow these steps:

1. Create a new Unity 3D scene.
2. Import the Characters and Cameras Asset Packages: use menu: Assets | Import Package ... | Cameras & Characters.
3. You should now have a Standard Assets folder in your Project panel, containing the Cameras and Characters folders (and possibly some others, such as CrossPlatformInput, Editor, and so on).
4. Create a 3D Plane in your Scene.
5. Add a clone of the ThirdPersonController Prefab to your Scene. Do this by dragging the ThirdPersonController Prefab...