unity-camera

Before calling any skill in this module: if you are about to call a skill with parameters guessed from its name or description, STOP — read this file (or fetch its schema via GET /skills/recommend?includeSchema=true) first. If you already have the parameter definitions from recommend/schema, you may proceed straight to dryRun.

Triggers

• Framing the Scene View
• Creating or adjusting cameras
• Tweaking FOV or clipping planes
• Scene View framing, creating or adjusting the camera, modifying FOV or clipping planes

Camera Skills

Control the Scene View camera and Game Cameras (creation, transform, properties, screenshot, culling, orthographic toggle).

Operating Mode

• Approval (default): mutating skills (camera_set_transform, camera_create, camera_set_properties, camera_set_culling_mask, camera_screenshot, camera_sceneview_screenshot, camera_set_orthographic, camera_align_view_to_object, camera_look_at) need user grant; grant triggers a single server-side execution that returns the result.
• Auto / Bypass: those skills execute directly.
• Query skills (camera_get_info, camera_get_properties, camera_list) are SkillMode.SemiAuto — they run in all three modes without grant.
• This module contains no Delete / PlayMode / Reload / high-risk skills (no NeverInSemi).

Guardrails

DO NOT (common hallucinations):

• camera_move / camera_rotate do not exist → use camera_set_transform (Scene View) or gameobject_set_transform (Game Camera)
• camera_set_fov does not exist → use camera_set_properties with fieldOfView parameter
• camera_* skills control two different cameras: camera_set_transform/camera_look_at/camera_align_view_to_object control the Scene View camera; camera_create/camera_set_properties/camera_screenshot control Game Cameras
• camera_delete does not exist → use gameobject_delete on the camera GameObject

Routing:

• For Cinemachine virtual cameras → use cinemachine module
• For Game Camera component properties → camera_set_properties / camera_get_properties (this module)
• For screenshots → three options: scene_screenshot (scene module) = the Game View final composite (all cameras + UI; Play mode = live runtime frame); camera_screenshot (this module) = a single Game Camera off-screen render; camera_sceneview_screenshot (this module) = the editor Scene View (developer viewport, incl. grid/gizmos)

Skills

camera_align_view_to_object

Align Scene View camera to look at an object. Parameters:

• name (string, optional): Target GameObject name.
• instanceId (int, optional): Target GameObject instance ID.
• path (string, optional): Target GameObject hierarchy path.

camera_get_info

Get the editor Scene View viewport camera's position and rotation — the developer's viewport, not a Camera component in the scene. It takes no target parameters for exactly that reason. For a Game Camera's state use camera_get_properties (or camera_list to find one); if you just created a camera with camera_create and want to confirm its transform, camera_get_info will not show it. Parameters: None.

camera_set_transform

Set the Scene View camera by pivot (the framed world point, not the eye position), rotation and size. Parameters:

• posX, posY, posZ (float): Pivot — the world point framed, not the eye position.
• rotX, rotY, rotZ (float): Rotation (Euler).
• size (float, optional): Scene View size (zoom) (default 5).
• instant (bool, optional): true: applied immediately and read back; false: animated (default true).

Returns: { success, message, pivot, rotation, size, orthographic }, plus cameraPosition (the eye position) when instant=true, or animating: true when instant=false.

camera_look_at

Focus Scene View camera on a world-space point. Applied immediately. Parameters:

• x, y, z (float): Target point.
• Does not support targetName or GameObject lookup. For object focus, use camera_align_view_to_object.

Returns: { success, pivot, rotation, size }.

camera_create

Create a new Game Camera.

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
name	string	No	"New Camera"	Name of the new camera GameObject
x	float	No	0	Position X
y	float	No	1	Position Y
z	float	No	-10	Position Z
addAudioListener	bool	No	false	Also attach an AudioListener component

Returns: { success, name, instanceId }

camera_get_properties

Get Game Camera properties (supports name/instanceId/path).

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
name	string	No	null	Name of the camera GameObject
instanceId	int	No	0	Instance ID of the camera GameObject
path	string	No	null	Hierarchy path of the camera GameObject

Returns: { success, name, fieldOfView, nearClipPlane, farClipPlane, orthographic, orthographicSize, depth, cullingMask, clearFlags, backgroundColor, rect }

camera_set_properties

Set Game Camera properties (FOV, clip planes, clear flags, background color, depth).

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
name	string	No	null	Name of the camera GameObject
instanceId	int	No	0	Instance ID of the camera GameObject
path	string	No	null	Hierarchy path of the camera GameObject
fieldOfView	float?	No	null	Camera field of view
nearClipPlane	float?	No	null	Near clipping plane distance
farClipPlane	float?	No	null	Far clipping plane distance
depth	float?	No	null	Camera rendering depth
clearFlags	string	No	null	Clear flags: Skybox, Color, SolidColor, Depth, Nothing. Color and SolidColor are two names for the same underlying CameraClearFlags value, so both are accepted and the response always echoes it back as Color — do not read that as the write having been ignored
bgR	float?	No	null	Background color red component (0-1)
bgG	float?	No	null	Background color green component (0-1)
bgB	float?	No	null	Background color blue component (0-1)
bgA	float?	No	null	Background color alpha (0-1)

Any bg* channel you omit keeps the camera's current value, so you can set alpha alone.

Returns: { success, name, applied, fieldOfView, nearClipPlane, farClipPlane, orthographic, orthographicSize, depth, cullingMask, clearFlags, backgroundColor, rect } — the response echoes the camera's state after the write, and applied lists which parameters were actually changed, named exactly as you passed them (the background channels appear individually as bgR, bgG, bgB, bgA, not lumped under backgroundColor), so a parameter absent from applied was not supplied. That echo is your verification: a second camera_get_properties call is redundant. An unparseable clearFlags rejects the whole call with SEMANTIC_INVALID + validValues before anything is applied, so the numeric parameters in the same call are never half-written.

camera_set_culling_mask

Set Game Camera culling mask by layer names (comma-separated).

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
layerNames	string	Yes	-	Comma-separated layer names
name	string	No	null	Name of the camera GameObject
instanceId	int	No	0	Instance ID of the camera GameObject
path	string	No	null	Hierarchy path of the camera GameObject

Returns: { success, cullingMask, layers } — layers lists the layer names the resulting mask includes.

camera_screenshot

Capture a screenshot from a Game Camera to file.

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
savePath	string	No	"Assets/screenshot.png"	File path to save the screenshot
width	int	No	1920	Screenshot width in pixels
height	int	No	1080	Screenshot height in pixels
name	string	No	null	Name of the camera GameObject
instanceId	int	No	0	Instance ID of the camera GameObject
path	string	No	null	Hierarchy path of the camera GameObject
returnImage	bool	No	false	Also return the PNG as base64 in the response (imageBase64), for clients without filesystem access
maxDimension	int	No	1280	Only used when returnImage=true; downscales the returned image (not the saved file) so its longer edge is ≤ this value. Clamped to 256–4096

Returns: { success, path, width, height }, plus { imageBase64, imageWidth, imageHeight, imageBytes } when returnImage=true. If the base64 payload would exceed 8MB, the skill returns an error asking for a smaller maxDimension — the file at path is still saved.

camera_sceneview_screenshot

Capture the editor Scene View (the developer's editing viewport — can overlook the whole scene incl. off-camera objects). Distinct from scene_screenshot (Game View / player camera) and camera_screenshot (one Game Camera). By default captures the full Scene View incl. grid/gizmos/selection (on-screen read); auto-falls back to a clean offscreen render if the editor build lacks the internal API. The Scene View window must be open and visible for the overlay capture.

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
filename	string	No	"sceneview.png"	Bare filename only (no path separators); saved under Assets/Screenshots/
includeOverlays	bool	No	true	True = full Scene View with grid/gizmos/selection (falls back to a clean render if unsupported); false = clean offscreen scene render only
returnImage	bool	No	false	Also return the PNG as base64 in the response (imageBase64), for clients without filesystem access
maxDimension	int	No	1280	Only used when returnImage=true; downscales the returned image (not the saved file) so its longer edge is ≤ this value. Clamped to 256–4096

Returns: { success, path, width, height, mode, note } — mode is "screen_with_overlays" or "offscreen_clean" — plus { imageBase64, imageWidth, imageHeight, imageBytes } when returnImage=true. If the base64 payload would exceed 8MB, the skill returns an error asking for a smaller maxDimension — the file at path is still saved.

returnImage usage tip: a local agent that can read files (e.g. Claude Code against a local Unity Editor) should generally omit returnImage and just read the PNG at path — it's cheaper on tokens. Use returnImage=true for remote/MCP clients that have no filesystem access to the Unity project.

camera_set_orthographic

Switch Game Camera between orthographic and perspective mode.

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
orthographic	bool	Yes	-	True for orthographic, false for perspective
orthographicSize	float?	No	null	Orthographic size (only applies in orthographic mode)
name	string	No	null	Name of the camera GameObject
instanceId	int	No	0	Instance ID of the camera GameObject
path	string	No	null	Hierarchy path of the camera GameObject

Returns: { success, orthographic, orthographicSize }

camera_list

List all cameras in the scene.

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description

Returns: { count, cameras: [{ name, instanceId, path, depth, orthographic, enabled }] }

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Exact Signatures

Exact names, parameters, defaults, and returns are defined by GET /skills/schema or unity_skills.get_skill_schema(), not by this file.