Camera Rotation

[Chris]

you could create a circle in the spline creation tools, then under the trajectories part of the motion manel, use the 'convert from' button to assign the circle as the cameras path. :)

[samhodge]

create a dummy/helper at the center of the "circle" link the camera and target to the dummy/helper.

animate the rotation of the dummy the camera will circle the dummy

is that clear?

[riley_ag]

when the camera is on a path contraint, make sure to have constant velocity checked, for a circle it wont make any differents but for more complex splines it makes a difference.

[moojuice]

"normalize" the spline....then it wont make a difference how spread and complex your path vertz are

[Xilica]

Aight, Thanks for the help on trajectories, I got that down.

Only problem now is how do I get a trajectory to be 1000 or as many frames as I want instead of the normal 100. Also, how do I make the camera switch between trajectories or would I have to create two cameras then disable one and let the other camera take over?


Thanks,

Mike

[riley_ag]

make you timeslider have more than a 100 frames, then drag the keyframe to the desired frame. To change trajectories just a another keyframe somewhere in the middle, and adjust the % along path...

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