PDA

View Full Version : Maya Constraint issues please help!

doppelganger
03-31-2002, 01:46 AM
Regards all. I am using the Mastering Maya 2 book but the software here at school is Maya 4. I am having issues with the constrain option under Animation. Say I create a sphere and then a light or a camera. I want to constrain the light to stay on the sphere. I slect the ball then shift select the light go to Constrain>>Aim and every time the light or camera will point in the opposite direction! I cant seem to get it to work. I was orioginally doing the rocket tutorial but I thought maybe I have some dummy objects or construction curves in the scene so I opened a new project and tried it with just the sphere and the light. Same issue.

PLEASE help! You can download my scene file at
http://www.doppelgangerdesign.com/Rocket04.mb



Scott
SheepFactory
03-31-2002, 01:53 AM
easy ,

after you constrain it open the attribute editor for:

spotlight aim constraint , under the Aim constraint attributes , there is Aim vector.

play with numbers there until the spotlight is pointing at the sphere.

hope that helps

A|i
doppelganger
03-31-2002, 01:59 AM
Thanks for the reply. Will this maintain the spotlight's focus on the object when it moves? It seems to me that when you constrain a light or camera to something the focus should point to that object??

Scott
SheepFactory
03-31-2002, 02:53 AM
yes the focus will be on the object , try and see for yourself.

A|i
doppelganger
03-31-2002, 08:08 AM
Very cool! It worked perfectly! Thanks so much thsi has been driving me up the wall for a week! : D

Scott
CGTalk Moderation
01-13-2006, 03:00 AM
This thread has been automatically closed as it remained inactive for 12 months. If you wish to continue the discussion, please create a new thread in the appropriate forum.