CGTalk - Locking camera

dwigfor

11-15-2005, 06:14 PM

So I keep accidentaly moving my camera around via the S key.. How can I lock it so I can't move it (it's already parented to a null, so I don't want to touch the camera. I tried going into the Kinematics PPGs and locking all the rotations and positions (global and local), but that just prevents me from typing in a number...

On my last project, I just added parameters to my Custom Pset and linked them to the camera, so I would only move the camera around via the Pset sliders... Was wondering what a better methoid would be. Thanks.

comanche

11-15-2005, 07:06 PM

Use the memo cams at the top of each viewport. They're really helpful.

Regards,
Andreas

dwigfor

11-15-2005, 07:53 PM

Use those even though my camera is animating (via nulls)?

Felipe

11-16-2005, 02:15 AM

Right-click the camera and interest in an explorer window and you will have options to lock just the animation parameters, or just value changes, etc...

dwigfor

11-16-2005, 07:58 PM

Thanks Felipe. That works... I was locking the camera's kinematics rather than the camera (I have no camera interest). Not really sure why my method of Value Locks didn't work, but now I know..

-Dave

My Latest WIP: http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=294480

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