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  • AE camera and Particular

    Posted by Brian Lynn on April 16, 2009 at 7:13 pm

    I have a comp camera, default 35mm settings, and a particle field held motionless (physics set to 0) from Particlar and I am trying to sort of tumble over it… I can rotate as much as I want left to right, but as soon as I try rotate up and down and fly over a “pole” vs the “equator” its gets strange.

    Imagine a sphere where the camera always points to the inside middle point… when I track left and right its ok, but when I go up and over it gets odd.
    The particles seem to flip over when I hit the apex of the up and over camera move…

    I could pre-comp everything sideways and spin over it that way, turning it back horizontal in a new comp, but its an extra step I’d like to avoid if possible.

    Thanks!

    Brian Lynn replied 17 years ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Kevin Camp

    April 16, 2009 at 7:05 pm

    try adding a null, make it 3d, parent the camera to the null and rotate the null around its x axis.

    Kevin Camp
    Senior Designer
    KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

  • Brian Lynn

    April 16, 2009 at 8:34 pm

    This works great! Now if I can just figure out how to control it as well as I can a camera… lol

    Thanks!

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