Recap: Chase Camera

Part of the Physics and Gameplay section of Coddy's Unity journey. Lesson 49 of 63.

Challenge

Medium

Write the chase camera for the car. The car's script is ready: the up arrow drives, left and right turn it, and its public field heading holds the way it faces, in degrees around y. heading keeps counting below 0 and past 360.

The camera sits at the car's position plus offset (0, 3, -6) turned around y by the camera's own yaw angle, which puts it behind the car.
That yaw starts at the car's heading and eases toward it with Mathf.SmoothDamp over smoothTime (0.3): in a turn the camera swings round a little after the car, and always the short way.
The camera looks at the point ahead (4) units in front of the car.

Press Play, drive in circles both ways, then Check.

Try it yourself

using UnityEngine;

public class ChaseCamera : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Car car;
    public Vector3 offset = new Vector3(0, 3, -6);
    public float smoothTime = 0.3f;
    public float ahead = 4f;

    void LateUpdate()
    {
    }
}