Switching between multiple cameras

Choosing from a variety of cameras is a common feature in many genres: racing, sports, tycoon/strategy, and many others. In this recipe, you will learn how to give players the ability to choose from many cameras by using their keyboards.

Getting ready

This recipe adds to the scene created in the first recipe of this chapter, so make a copy of that project folder and do your work for this recipe with that copy.

How to do it...

To implement switchable cameras, follow these steps:

1. Create a new Camera in the Scene named Camera-1 (Create | Camera). Set its position to (0,0,0). Set the Tag for this Camera to be MainCamera.
2. Duplicate Camera-1, naming the copy Camera-2. Set its Position to (0, 0, -15), and its Rotation to (20, 0, 0).
3. Disable the Camera and AudioListener components for both Camera-1 and Camera-2.
4. Create an empty GameObject named switchboard (Create | Create Empty).
5. Create a new C# script-class named CameraSwitch containing the following, and add an object...