Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: joint editor

pauldol opened this issue on Jun 23, 2011 ยท 7 posts


lesbentley posted Thu, 23 June 2011 at 3:03 PM

**pauldol**, you may find that the file attached above helps.

This is a little tool that I use when I want to get a precisely positioned view of something. I had been thinking of doing a bit of an update on it, and this thread has spurred me to action.

I call it "CamTarget.pp2", it consists of a cross-hair target prop and 6 locked cameras parented to the target. The idea is that you position the target in the center of the place you want to view, then scale the tatget to "zoom" in. The cameras use an infinite (flat) perspective like the orthogonal cameras, and the target will always be in the exact center of the camera view. This set up gives you very precise control of point that the camera orbits. The down side is that you can't use the Camera Controls palette on any of the new cameras, you can only move them via the target prop. It may sometimes be useful to view through the standard Poser cameras whilst positioning the target. When first loaded the view will change to the "Target_FRONT_CAMERA", right click in the Document Window to view through a different camera. The target will use the Foreground colour.

The original version only had one camera, this new version has 6 cameras, Front, Back, Left, Right, Top, and Bottom. These views are relative to the orientation of the target prop. This new version is hot of the press just this minute, so has not been thoroughly tested yet. Seems to work OK in P6, should work in other versions.

You will need to loose the ".TXT" part of the file extension before you will be able to use the zip. The file will install under the props folder to a folder named "CAMERA pp2".