Target Distance Undefined?

[holycause]

a free cam don't have any target ;)

edit: if u want a target cam, u should use this targetCamera

[ZeBoxx2]

a free cam don't have any target ;)

That's not to say that a freeCamera doesn't have a target distance property; in fact, manipulating that value in a freeCamera allows you to control the reach of the view frustrum in the viewports, for example - and the Depth of Field by default uses the target distance as well.

Which doesn't answer the original question, but...


$
$Free_Camera:Camera01 @ [37.269371,0.000001,-26.199263]
$.targetDistance
undefined
$.targetDistance = 10
10 -- but it's not actually set to 10
$.target_distance -- subAnim value accessor
96.0 -- see?
$.target_distance = 10
10
$.target_distance
10.0 -- now it is


No idea why .targetDistance returns undefined and can't be set, though; I do suspect it's related to the freeCamera vs targetCamera thing (as you can't particularly set it when you are using an actual target), but that's just a wild guess.

[Bobo]

DIRECT QUOTE FROM THE HELP:

NOTE:

In 3ds Max, all node-level properties are searched before base-object-level properties. If a base-object property has the same name as a node-level property, you need to search in the base object for the base object property.

This affects the following properties of freeCamera:



<freeCamera>.baseObject.targetDistance

Get/Set the target distance of the Free Camera.

Every node in 3ds Max has a node property .targetDistance which contains the distance to an eventual target the node is looking at using a LookAt controller. (you can assign a node to the .lookAt property and the controller will be assigned automatically).

Thus, a Free Camera has such a node property but it is set to undefined, and a baseobject property with the same name which contains the actual target distance value shown in the User Interface. If the Free Camera gets converted to a Target camera, the node-level property will be displayed in the User Interface and should be accessed via MAXScript.

[ZeBoxx2]

well, that explains that :>
/me tells self to rtfm

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