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Positioning new object in front of roaming 3D camera
After a person has been flying a 3D camera through space parented to a null object- How can one introduce a new still frame in front of the cameras current position?
I bring it in, size it, then click 3D and it becomes lost in space. Danger Wil Robinson.
Thanks for your help.
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3 Replies
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You have to activate 3d for that object before sizing and positioning it. If you zoom out quite a bit you’ll see it’s wireframe somewhere, probably very lost, but it’s there…
Yussef
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Try making an expression that ties your 2D layer to the camera’s Point Of Interest by Alt clicking the 2D layers position, then pickwhipping that to the Camera’s POI.
For an elegant use of this see Dan Ebberts,
“Building the World’s Greatest Cameraman
using After Effects 5.5’s Expression Controls”.
He puts a Fractal Noise layer (2D for clouds) in front of a moving camera. It’s at the bottom of the tut. -
Create a new camera and a new solid. Parent the solid to that new camera. Then copy all position/rotation/etc values from your ‘good’ first camera to that new one. Now change the parent, associate the solid to the good camera and delete the new one.
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