CGTalk - Perspective Camera

johnnyMac

09-16-2003, 07:58 PM

what the freakin funk cant i get my perspective camera to rotate around the object i have selected? i used to do it. what happened? i'm confused. so now if i select and object and hit 'f' it brings that object full screen but when i go to orbit it seems to orbit around the scene axis instead of the object axis.

if this has happened to you and you have some light you'd like to shine in my direction then shine away. thanks.

jmac

galactor

09-16-2003, 09:29 PM

The camera rotate's around it's own axis.
To get the wanted result follow the following:
1- create an empty group or a locator
2- place it (snap tool/allign tools) at the position of the object
3- now select the camera then the empty group and Parent them (press P)

:: Galactor ::

johnnyMac

09-16-2003, 09:43 PM

thanks for the reply. i figured out that if i select the "persp" camera and just freeze transformations it resets the rotation so that worked too.

thanks again.

dirkusrhombas

09-16-2003, 09:46 PM

Pres f1 in maya and have a look at the info on the diferences between 2 node and 3 node cameras if u have a spare couple a minutes :P

johnnyMac

09-16-2003, 09:55 PM

but does that matter for the default perspective camera? i'm not sure what went wrong with my rotation but i didnt change the type of camera it was. i'll check it out though. thanks.

:thumbsup:

dirkusrhombas

09-17-2003, 09:44 AM

No your right it doesnt matter for the def pers camera i was just dropin my 2 cents, thought you might find more detailed info in the docs :P

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