Blend Profiles

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Image showing the Blend Profile data asset, as seen in the Asset Editor.

Blend Profile Overview

Blend Profiles are an asset that can be created through the Asset Editor. It’s a simple file that allows the creation of any number of blends between cameras.

Using a From -> To selection format, blends between cameras can be uniquely customized even between 2 cameras, blending one way, from another.

Functionality

When you define a blend from one camera to another, you can then set a target blend time, along with a blend easing type.

There are many Easing Types, as can be seen in the Curves Utility doc.

Best Target Blend

The Blend system has layers of selection based on most specialized blend.

The first evaluation is for an exact From -> To blend.

Following that, the system checks for “Any” -> To blend definition.

Next is a From -> “Any”.

And lastly, is the fall back to default, as defined in the CamCore Component.

Creating and using a Blend Profile

For initial startup instructions refer to the PhantomCam Set Up Guide in Get Started section.

In the [ New ] menu of the Asset Editor, you can select “GS_BlendProfile”, this will create a blank Blend Profile.

Add as many Blends as you wish, using the + button.

In each blend you can set the From target camera, the To target camera, and blending details. The Camera Names are the entity names you set up on your Phantom Camera Entities.

Blank text, or “any”, indicates to the system that this is a broad, less specific target. Allowing “any” -> to cam, or From -> “any” cam blend selection.

Set the blend time you wish the blend to take to span the distance and properties between your from cam an to camera.

Due to how O3DE handles Dat assets, you may need to re-load the level, or entire editor, to get edits to the Blend Profile to propagate to the in-editor gameplay.

API

const PhantomBlend* GetBestBlend(AZStd::string fromCam, AZStd::string toCam) const;