Hi everyone,
Is there a plugin, constraint setting, or something I missed to get a camera attached to an animated prop to inherit its Rotational animation?
I exported some camera pivot-ROTATION data from another 3D package and trying to create a foreground cockpit animation in IClone… you know, look ahead, look through the right window, then left, that sort of thing. My goal is to composite the IClone animation over the rendered background coming from the other package.
What I’ve discovered is:
•I can import an animated prop containing ROTATION data through 3DXchange, Y and Z are reversed.
•I can correct the Y/Z issue in IClone by rotating it… result: imported prop camera ROTATION animation looks perfect.
•I can Attach an IClone camera to my prop… and…
Full STOP… there appears to be a limitation here. My IClone camera, made a child of the Rotating Prop, inherits none of its rotation.
Hope there’s a solution for this. Thanks in advance - Don

Hi dondec,

Firstly, Welcome to the Forum!! :w00t:

have you tried disabling the "Auto" features on the camera ? my first 'guess' would be if iclone is trying to auto level, auto Transform, and smooth cam movements. it may be countering any other motion you are trying to follow on the prop.

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Hi, thanks for the reply. Lock Camera, Auto Level, and Smooth Camera - unchecked. Camera shows itself being linked to my imported "FakeCam". It does btw translate together with FakeCam if I move it... so the Link does work, sort of... the Rotation data appears to be ignored. A fairly serious bug/limitation if I'm not missing some simple option.

can you post a screen cap or video cap of the issue ? I'm sure it's something simple, because I've seen it work with avatars using live motion capture and attaching cam to a character. there were no limitations in that scenario. another thing that could cause that kind of reaction is if you have a look at command invoked somewhere in the timeline.

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Sure... you can download this project.
http://www.graphicsnmotion.com/tmp/CamRotIssue.iProject

With my descriptions above and this project, should be pretty clear. Thanks - Don

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Hey Cricky, thank you so much! Works perfect... never would have clicked that "..." button, hahah, what a sense of relief! Anyway, here's a link to the fixed project, for anybody experiencing similar issues:
http://www.graphicsnmotion.com/tmp/CamRotFixed.iProject

Thanks again - Don

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