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Gthoma2

10-23-2009, 09:30 PM

I'm using stacked image planes bound to a skeleton to form puppets in Maya for a collaborative project.

What I'm wondering is if there is any camera setting that I can change to make a camera that sees the reverse of what is presented.

For example-

This:
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i305/einder/OceanG.jpg

Would become this-

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i305/einder/OceanGR.jpg

I thought I could just scale the x axis to -1, but it didn't work.

Thanks!

beaker

10-26-2009, 05:18 PM

I don't think so. You would have to do it to the geometry. Anything wrong with just doing this in post?

jeppers113d

11-22-2009, 05:57 PM

you kinda had the right idea, but don't scale the camera doh! scale the image plane that the character is on instead... you can always render that part in a separate pass and composite it in after effects, shake, or combustion or whatever... and scale it in the negative that way...

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