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Camera Auto Orient Y only
I’m trying to build a “carosoule” type animation, where a null is parent to multiple (16×9) images that surround it. I want to be able to rotate the null on it’s y axis and zoom into the different images. I want the images to maintain their y axis and always face the camera.
I get the effect I want when I turn on auto-orient towards camera, but I dont’t want the twisting/distortion of the images when I move the camera up or down on the Y axis.
I’ve tried using the Dab Ebbert’s script, but I must be doing something wrong, because I still get distortion. And I haven’t got the script working when the layers are animated by the controlling null vs. animating the camera.
Hopefully I’ve explained my challenge effectively.
Any help would be greatly appreciated -
5 Replies
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I’m confused. Do you want the layers to always be oriented towards the camera, or just on the y axis?
Dan
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Thanks for the response Dan. I’ll try and be more clear.
I want the layers to be orientated towards the camera but only on the y axis.
If I do all my animation with the camera, your script works perfect.
But when I have the image layers parented to a null and do my Y axis rotation animation with the null, the image layers don’t keep their orientation towards the camera.
I can make it work with animating the camera, but would like to use the null if possible.
Thanks again,
Bart -
It looks like I didn’t set that up to account for parenting. Try this:
delta = fromWorldVec(toWorld(anchorPoint) – thisComp.activeCamera.toWorld([0,0,0]));
radiansToDegrees(Math.atan2(delta[0],delta[2]))Dan
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Thanks Dan
The “from” vs. “to” in World space did the the trick.
Your website is a great inspiration, keep up the good work.
Thanks agian
-B -
Hey guys! I want to re-open this case ☺
I am making very similar thing. I control my image layer with my null layer. I rotate null layer on Y axis and make it parent to image layer. I added the script to Y Rotation of image layer, but as you can see my image is still distort. What am I doing wrong? Thanks!
Here’s how it looks like: https://www.dropbox.com/s/1ppblmnlp6cilol/image.png?dl=0
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