Camera Snapping Problem

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@Shrooblord

It is weird to me that setting it to “Ignore” shouldn’t resolve anything. This is why I came here for help; it seemed to me either a bug or something I’ve been setting up wrong.

I almost certain that your default initialization just getting overwritten somewhere else

Anyway, why is the Spring Arm getting caught on Geometry considered “normal behaviour”? I’d expect the whole purpose of the Spring Arm is to keep the Camera that target distance away from everything, so that it wouldn’t clip through geometry and that kind of thing and also always kept the character (or whatever else it’s attached to) in view.

Behavior of Spring arm is to snap “in front” of an object that otherwise will obstruct the view. It will retract to 0 length only if something wrong in settings.

Furthermore, isn’t it good design if geometry and objects collide with the camera, so that it won’t clip through things? Or am I interpreting things wrong?

This is the idea, yeah. Here is example of my setup, as you can see, it works correctly even when between character model and wall just a 10cm or so

- YouTube

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I just watched your gif again and I don’t understand the setup. Your spring arm attached to the cursor? Is it possible that “cursor” blocks camera spring collision checks? Or your character mesh?