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3D Studio Max
Rubberband Camera?
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20 May 2006So...im trying to animate this cool flyby shot...where a small ship....flys along the hull of a huge one.....and....im trying to get the camera to fly along with it....Ive tried linking the camera....and that doesnt work...because it links the rotation and everything...and I just get sick watching it...cause theres so much movement.....
I tried using a target cam...and just linking the target to it...that works the best..BUT...i keep getting this rubberband effect....where the camera wants to move faster than the small ship.....so i get this slingshot effect....i tried tinking with the options with the "ins" and "outs" but those don't seem to help me at all......Ive tried animated it by hand...but i still get the that slingshot effect...in addition to it being extremly annoying...cause the camera moves around so much.....
very frusterating......
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20 May 2006something like this i usually animate by hand, setting the large overall keyframes first, and then dialing in the in-betweens...
i wonder if it's possible to link a large sphere to the ship, and use a surface constraint on the camera, attaching it to the sphere, having it point inwards at the ship. nah, you'd have to dial it in too much, it might end up looking just like having the camera linked to the ship to begin with...
is it possible to link (perhaps link contraint?) but then disable certain transforms, like rotation? then the position would move with it, but you could still animate the camera looking around where it needed to. maybe ONLY link in one axis, then you can have almost complete freedom, but still have it keep up with the ship. i don't know if this is possible with the link constraint, though, haven't used it much.
you could also make a path, and have the camera constrained to it. then you can animate the percentage along the path, and al the rotation values and offset values.\
just some ideas, don't know if any will work.
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21 May 2006You could do a position list + position constraint so that you can link up the position to the the intended target, but then animate along side it on another track which you can then handle both position + rotation. That would be best bet, and would leave you more control. OR if you're after something simpler, you can just hook it up the x,y and or z positioning +- rotation through wiring.
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ALi 608 posts22 May 2006All that cameron and hype said I suggest.
And... sometimes there is another way I use. But you'd better to know camera movement technics before. It's path contraint.
Draw a line as your camera movement path. and then add to your camera a position list/path constraint, select Add Path and pick your line. At bottom of the panel you can set the animation properties. Also you can edit keys to slow down/speed up the animation.
Note that you may be have to create a free camera. (I don't know what type of result you want to get.)
Hope to be useful.
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