Moving the camera and Point of Interest at the same time-You can do this right?

[Andy Stokes]

Hi Matt,

You can simply add a Null and parent your camera + interest to that, then move the null. Another way I like is to make a camera “rig”. Try this :-

1)Create a null, position it at 0,0,0. Name it MASTER.
2)Duplicate + position new null at 0,0,-1000. Name it ZOOM
3)Position camera at 0,0,-1000 + interest at 0,0,0.
4)Parent ZOOM to MASTER and camera to ZOOM.

Now you can easily rotate / position MASTER and use the Z position of ZOOM to zoom in/out. Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Andy

[Matt Stoltz]

cool thanks bro –I knew it was too simple –Ive read about parenting to a null but it just didnt hit me

oh well

thanks again

matt

[Mark Woloschuk]

i would also point out (heh – very apt) that you can just turn off auto-orient towards point of interest or enable auto-orient along path to stamp out the damn point of interest altogether. i can’t believe i didn’t know you could do this until i imported a match move camera from boujou.

previously i used to tie the p.o.i. postion to the camera position with this expression:

[position[0], position[1], position[2]+X]

where x = the difference between camera and p.o.i. z position

which is a decidedly lame way to do it.

mw