Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Parenting a camera

Marque opened this issue on May 19, 2004 ยท 11 posts


maclean posted Wed, 19 May 2004 at 2:58 PM

marque, I spent some time messing with the dolly cam on my own products. I wanted a cam that would sit in the middle of a room and pan around it. Well, the trick is to use the DollyZ parameter to position the camera first, then use Yaw to rotate it till it points in the correct direction. Say your figure is in the middle of the poser space at 0 0 0. Set DollyZ to 0.000, Yaw to 180 and DollyY to about 0.680. That should be more or less eye height. You'll probably have to change the focal length down to 200mm or less. At that point, you should be able to see the eyes, teeth, and inside of the head. If you set DollyZ to negative values, you'll be going backwards with the cam and should see the back of the head. Once you have it set, parent it. mac