Hello,

I'm trying to get a figure or prop in Poser to point at another figure (the main camera) while only rotating on one single axis. I tried use the "point at" function under the Object Menu, but then all the axises move. I also tried parenting the prop to the main camera, but even when I set the min and max values of two axises to 0, it still moves on all axises.

A quick example of what I want to do:

• I have a teapot on the floor, it's rotation values are rotateX=0, rotateY=0, rotateZ=0. The camera is rotateX=0, rotateY=0, rotateZ=0.
• I move the camera to rotateX=80, rotateY=30, rotateZ=25.
• I want the teapot to ignore the camera's X and Z rotation, only matching the Y rotation, so the teapot should now be rotateX=0, rotateY=30, rotateZ=0.
• In other words, it's still standing firmly on the ground, but it has been rotated to face the camera with the Y axis only. Because real teapots won't magically ballance on the side of the handle, by 3 totally random axises, as they'd fall over then ;-).

How do I do this?

Not important, but interesting: The actual application will be for 4-vertex planes with an image on it. For example glowing beams of, lets say, 'laser swords' that always face the camera along only 1 axis to draw a proper effect. Those things just look wonky as 3d-objects and are much better off as a 4-vertex plane that faces the camera but along only 1 axis (so they still are parallel to the sword). This comes closest to an automated form of rotoscoping for me.