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  • 3D, Nulls, Rotations

    Posted by Jeff Mcbride on March 8, 2006 at 3:56 pm

    Hey everyone,
    I’m working on a project where I want a few of the objects in 3d to be pointed directly towards the camera when rotated on the Y axis. This way they will never appear to rotate. I was wondering if it was possible to link the objects to the camera. I was planning on controlling the cam with a null, and I would link the rest of the objects to the same null, but I only want it to affect the Y-axis. Is this possible at all, maybe with some osrt of expression? Thanks a ton!

    Mylenium replied 20 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Sam Moulton

    March 8, 2006 at 4:37 pm

    try layer-transform-auto orient to camera

  • Jeff Mcbride

    March 8, 2006 at 5:48 pm

    That’s exactly what I need except I need it only to orient to the y axis. I want the images to be able to stay completely vertical no matter where the camera is but to rotate horizontally to the camera movements. Any way to adjust Auto Orient? Thanks!

  • Mylenium

    March 8, 2006 at 6:03 pm

    Turn off auto-orient and use a simple expression, preferably on the orientation parameter of your layer:

    cam=thisComp.layer(“camera”).position;
    looksy=lookAt(position,cam);

    [orientation[0],looksy,orientation[2]]

    Mylenium

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