23 - Smooth camera transitions between character states

Today I spend few hours to fix camera transitions. Previously, I have established three lengths for the character camera arm based on if the character is unequipped, equipped or equipped and aiming. I was changing those values in the Equip and HideOrShowEquippedWeapon functions of the CombatComponent. Also, I was just setting those values without transition resulting in a shaky gameplay.

To fix this, and to have my camera code in one place, I created a InterpCameraArmLength function using FInterpTo and DeltaTime. The function is called in the TickComponent an changes camera arm length continuously.

The InterpCameraArmLength function called in TickComponent.

For the moment, the function is still based on boolean combinations. In the future, I might use an enum to simplify how I handle character states.

The smooth camera transition result (not so obvious in GIF format).