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#Perspective matching R4

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#147915From: Christopher Toulmin MODEJan 19, 1995 6:12 PM
We are currently involved in the creation of CG's for a music video. The director is proposing to composite live action and CG's together. We have employed this technique many times for BBC Telivision with great sucess. This time however the camers shot is a moving one. Clearly a challenge but with the new perspective matching tool in R4 we felt this would be achievable. Unfortunately the perspective matching tool is only functional in the 3D editor making it imposible to perspective match a camera to a path in the keyframer. We feel this would be an extremely useful tool and, possibly not to difficult to generate. The bitmapped backgrounds could be manually reassigned if only perspective matching could load in the keyframer and function with relation to the time line. Is it possible to dissable fast preview mode, and enable perspective match in the keyframer? Could this be achieved via an additional code in the keyscripting language or from another source. Your help and advice would be much appreciated. Chris
#147946From: Yost GroupJan 19, 1995 9:56 PM
You'll have to talk to Jonas or one of the Autodesk folks about this, since we had nothing to do with the fast preview/perspective match system in r4. – G
#147955From: Jonas Ruikis [ADESK]Jan 19, 1995 10:17 PM
Hi Christopher, << Is it possible to dissable fast preview mode, and enable perspective match in the keyframer? >> I'm sorry but this cannot be done. << Could this be achieved via an additional code in the keyscripting language or from another source. >> It would have to be modifications to those IPAS routines. I'll take your comments as a wishlist item. jonas[adesk]
#148031From: Mei-Tien HsingJan 20, 1995 9:54 AM
JOnas, I sent you a separate note on the Ghost painting issue. But I am thinking how best to utilize perspective matching in simplifying the animated drawing and the brush synchronization? Mei-Tien
#148038From: Phillip L. MillerJan 20, 1995 10:18 AM
A somewhat tedious method exists for you to use the Editor's Camera Control for a series of background images/animation. It's a kludge, but it works: Match the camera to the image with Camera Control, clone the camera, match the next image, clone the camera, and so on…… Now, with Keyscript, copy those tracks from the cloned cameras to the original. If this sounds feasible to you, but you need help with the Keyscript, I would be happy to write one and upload it to the forum for you (and other's) use. – Phil