Camera Systems

What it does

When your agent uses it

• The user mentions camera follow
• Camera smoothing
• Camera bounds/ limits
• Third-person camera

Example prompts

• “/camera-systems”

Requirements

• Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Engine-agnostic camera techniques; snippets in GDScript (Godot 4.x Camera2D/Camera3D) and C# (Unity 6 / Cinemachine 3). Pairs with godot-2d-movement, godot-3d-essentials, and game-feel.

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

1. 1Godot 2D built-in follow: smoothing + bounds (don't hand-roll first)
2. 2Frame-rate-independent smooth follow (when you hand-roll it)
3. 3Deadzone + look-ahead (lead the player, ignore jitter)
4. 43D third-person orbit with collision push-in
5. 5Screen shake hook (owned trigger lives in game-feel)

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit fc215d4. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are gdscript).

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md.

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

• Compatibility

  Engine-agnostic camera techniques; snippets in GDScript (Godot 4.x Camera2D/Camera3D) and C# (Unity 6 / Cinemachine 3). Pairs with godot-2d-movement, godot-3d-essentials, and game-feel.

  From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

Context cost

Camera Systems loads about 2.2k tokens when it runs, and up to ~3.4k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 142 tokens; SKILL.md has 702 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~142

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~2.2k

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~3.4k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from ukanwat/overtime at commit fc215d4, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© ukanwat). 702 words, ~2,196 tokens.

name

camera-systems

description

Build game cameras that feel good — 2D follow with a deadzone, look-ahead, smoothing, and level-bounds clamping; 3D third-person orbit with collision and first-person look; plus multi-target framing and a shake hook. Engine-neutral techniques that pair with the engine's camera node and rigs like Unity Cinemachine or Godot Camera2D/PhantomCamera. Use when the user mentions camera follow, follow camera, deadzone, look-ahead, camera smoothing, camera bounds/ limits, third-person camera, orbit camera, first-person look, Cinemachine, or camera jitter.

compatibility

Engine-agnostic camera techniques; snippets in GDScript (Godot 4.x Camera2D/Camera3D) and C# (Unity 6 / Cinemachine 3). Pairs with godot-2d-movement, godot-3d-essentials, and game-feel.

license

Apache-2.0

metadata.engine

none

metadata.category

disciplines

metadata.difficulty

intermediate

# Godot 4.x Camera2D. Engine-provided smoothing + hard limits + drag margins.
@onready var cam := $Camera2D
func _ready() -> void:
    cam.make_current()
    cam.position_smoothing_enabled = true
    cam.position_smoothing_speed = 6.0           # higher = snappier; lower = floatier
    cam.limit_left = 0; cam.limit_top = 0        # clamp to the level rect (pixels)
    cam.limit_right = level_width; cam.limit_bottom = level_height
    cam.drag_horizontal_enabled = true           # built-in deadzone via drag margins

# RIGHT: exponential smoothing — same feel at any FPS. `rate` ~ 5..12.
func _follow(dt: float) -> void:
    var t := 1.0 - exp(-rate * dt)               # converges correctly regardless of dt
    global_position = global_position.lerp(target.global_position, t)
# WRONG: global_position = global_position.lerp(target.global_position, 0.1)
#        → faster smoothing at higher FPS; different feel on every machine.
# Unity 6: Vector3.SmoothDamp(transform.position, target.position, ref vel, smoothTime) in
# LateUpdate gives the same spring behavior with built-in frame-rate correction.

# Camera only chases once the target leaves the deadzone box, then aims AHEAD of motion.
func _camera_target(dt: float) -> Vector2:
    var to := target.global_position - _focus
    var dz := deadzone_half_extents                  # e.g. Vector2(48, 32)
    # Only move the focus by the overflow beyond the deadzone (per axis).
    _focus.x += clampf(absf(to.x) - dz.x, 0, INF) * signf(to.x)
    _focus.y += clampf(absf(to.y) - dz.y, 0, INF) * signf(to.y)
    var lead := target.velocity.normalized() * look_ahead_dist    # aim ahead of travel
    return _focus + lead

# Godot 4.x. Yaw/pitch a pivot; a SpringArm3D auto-pulls the camera in when blocked.
func _unhandled_input(e):
    if e is InputEventMouseMotion:
        _yaw -= e.relative.x * sensitivity
        _pitch = clampf(_pitch - e.relative.y * sensitivity, -1.2, 0.4)   # clamp pitch!
func _process(_dt):
    pivot.rotation = Vector3(_pitch, _yaw, 0)
    # $SpringArm3D handles wall collision: set spring_length + collision_mask; the child
    # Camera3D slides in automatically. RIGHT: spring arm. WRONG: camera clips through walls.
# Unity 6: a Cinemachine 3 CinemachineCamera (namespace Unity.Cinemachine) with an Orbital
# Follow + Cinemachine Deoccluder; the CinemachineBrain on the Camera blends automatically.

# Expose an additive offset the game-feel trauma model writes to; follow + shake compose.
var shake_offset := Vector2.ZERO                 # set each frame by game-feel (trauma^2 * noise)
func _apply(final_focus: Vector2) -> void:
    global_position = final_focus + shake_offset  # shake rides ON TOP of smooth follow
# Unity Cinemachine: add a CinemachineBasicMultiChannelPerlin and set amplitude from trauma.

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Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file (references) in .claude/skills/camera-systems of ukanwat/overtime.

• SKILL.md
• references/follow-and-framing.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit fc215d4

Used in 1 other repository

We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in ukanwat/overtime, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

• gamedev-skills/awesome-gamedev-agent-skillsskills/disciplines/camera-systems