datastorm opened this issue on Aug 26, 2001 ยท 6 posts
datastorm posted Sun, 26 August 2001 at 2:04 PM
I have a scene where a jet is doing a fly-by. I want the camera to point at the jet and track its movement. I used the point at command in the properites tray/modifiers window. But what is happening, is that camera is moving with the jet. What I want is for the camera to stay still and just turn or (I guess you call this panning) pan with the jet as it goes by. Is there a solution? Thank you very much
keithw posted Mon, 27 August 2001 at 8:21 AM
You can use key frames to do this. Set a key frame with the camera pointing at the jet at its start position and another with the camera pointing at the jet' end position. Keith
litst posted Mon, 27 August 2001 at 1:23 PM
Datastorm, are you sure you're not using the "track" behaviour instead of "point at" behaviour ?
datastorm posted Mon, 27 August 2001 at 3:21 PM
Is that what I'm suspose to use . . .the "point at" behavior?
litst posted Mon, 27 August 2001 at 4:06 PM
Yes :) The "point at" behaviour in the z axis . The "track" behaviour makes an object follow another one, in position or orientation, so that's definitively not what you need ;)
AzChip posted Sat, 01 September 2001 at 10:56 PM
Yep -- "Point at" is panning, "Track" is, well, in movie-making terms, tracking with an object -- or moving the camera along with the object. Hope you have your answer!