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#rotating the camera

    07-Sep-93 13:29:24
Fm: David Hofmann 100112,3243
To: Anthony Ramirez 70275,1027
Tony, thanks very much for you help. You guessed right. The camera is following a path as well as the TRACK object does. I tried to use the 'final y rotation' and it worked ok for the final position, but it seems that this value comes into effect very late. I have a camera movement from frame 70 to frame 150 and it starts to rotate in the right position at frame 140 (!) or something. Maybe the problem is that I have placed my whole scene (all the objects) somewhat odd, meaning in the top view I see the front of the object and in the front view I see all object from the top. I dunno how I did this (maybe because I have one object morphing and I didn't know how it would look after the morph). OTOH there must be a way to align the camera in any position correctly. I'll have to try a little more I think. Wouldn't it be logical if the y rotation (or whatever it is, I mean the axis that equals the view axis) is controlled by the track object? Maybe I'm spoilt because I'm a freelance cameramen. I'm still waiting for a program that lets you control the camera as natural as in reality. -David PS: I don't have the book you mentioned, but fortunately here in Germany Imagine is sold with a very good german manual/book. I haven't looked into the original manual so far. <g>