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New track > Geometry > Align to Spline. MISSING!
hello again.
Am still new to Cin4d . And again the manuals have failed.
I almost threw this out and sent it back a month ago cause the manuals
were very poorly written for the new user.I have since started using tutorials to grasp my way thru and refer back to manuals. Well, here it is again.
Manual says this: RE: BAsic camera animation, target camera(or anmation track) using a spline—–
Open the Timeline from the window menu.
Select the camera in the Timeline. In the Editor file
menu, New track > Geometry > Align to Spline.Well, I select camera in the timeline editor (i guess it is called)
and I cannot for the life of me find any Editor File,Any menu item,sub-menu item that has anything near NEW TRACK, or GEOMETRY,
or ALIGN TO SPLINE.Am just trying to learn camera controls and animation.Any one have
the solution? Where is it? what is the name? Why there is no New Track, or Geometry, or Align to spline in any of the timeline editor window menus-sub menus?Searched for tuts and found only one which was worse than this.
Spent too many hours trying to figure this out. Using R10Thanks for any replies…
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2 Replies
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Sounds like they didn’t edit that portion of the manual when the timeline was first updated.
As a general rule you don’t have to create tracks manually. Just keyframe a parameter with the dots in the attribute manager or using the record button in the time slider and the track will be created automatically.
So in this case, give your camera an align-to-spline tag, drag the path spline you want to use into the tag’s spline link box, and then control + click on the little circle to the left of the position paramter to create a keyframe. Now you have a track which will display in the timeline, assuming you have it automatic mode with “show all” active.
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well thanks very much, that helps a great deal, it might have been ages before I seen that in the tags.
I know with most things there are several if not many ways to do them,
but trying to clunk round a camera in this with just view windows and move tool and key punching frames was getting old real quick.Again, big thanks for the reply and added info.
I try to title my posts so they are useful to any others, and adding the right answer solution is a big plus.
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