When parenting a camera with a dummy prop it gives way more control and more realistic control as the camera can emulate a dolly and crane shots more realistically.

I just wonder if I can save a prop and a camera into the content?

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Busting your nads trying to get a pre-made path into position??? ;) Fugetaboutit. :P

Here's a technique I picked up from justaviking. :w00t: (Thanks man, this has made path making a breeze. :D )

First, scrub along the timeline changing your camera position at whatever intervals you desire. I changed position every 200 frames in the example below.



Then pick a point just in front of the first timeline marker, left click and drag, holding it until all of the markers have been included in the shaded area.



Right click on the first position and choose "Convert position to path".



BADA BING, you have your path with markers at every camera position you noted and at the height and location desired. Edit path as necessary to fit your needs. (make more round, add a dummy etc.)



:cool: pete

PS: ;) This will work for any path, you can easily plot the most difficult fly-bys by letting your camera and the software do the heavy lifting.


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The LOOK AT feature must be used in specific cases. The use cases are different depending on what you want to communicate.

Just using what I learned.

The camera is parented to the blue sphere which is normally invisible. I didn't want to use 'look at' as I wanted the camera to have a more natural motion.

I would have even more control if I parented the blue sphere to another shape using just one for rotation and the other just for translation offering separate transform keyframes.

that will have to come with time and experience - just keep posting questions on the forum, and we'll share the work arounds we've found and learned from others - some of the techniques the guys on the forum come up with are brilliant. :) sometimes there are ways to go beyond the ui, that isn't common knowledge ...such as ini files and customizing certain features in icone not available in the preferences. Sometimes there are even hidden panels with no instructions on how to access it. Reallusion makes it simple for us new 3D guys, but they also occasionally add features for more experienced animators. Not sure how many there are in ic6 though!

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Changing the axis of a camera was one of the things I could not find.

Working in iClone means I have to know what can I and can't do that the pro software can.

Funny. After that I made a project with 3-4 cameras having less keyframes than ever and then ran into keyframing the rotation of the floor!

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I am assuming panning shots is the goal of the Original Post.

Here are a couple more options which are easy to do, and once done they can be applied to future projects as props or accessories.

This is all done inside iClone, but importing props with ready made commands is an option too, which I have done in the past. They are only tools after all.

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a lot of the concepts and techniques applicable in iclone you probably already know from other animation softwares - in this case it's really just understanding the terminology and work flow used in iclone ( which is noob friendly ♥ lol ). I learned this from the other way around, I started 3D with iclone and when I branched out I found it was the same thing with a different term in a different panel and more choices. Reallusion just makes the 3D concepts easier to digest with their approach.

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Right! I get it, because a dummy object (parent) causes its (child) objects including a camera to pivot to the same axis, there is no need to make a physical anchor to a prop.

Thanks all for your prompt responses.