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  • Spinning camera smoothly round an object?

    Posted by Chris Wood on March 26, 2011 at 7:42 pm

    Hello, I’m going to cut straight to the chase, I need to have the camera spin round my object, and have the camera spiralling upwards as I do it. I have created the helix spline and attached the camera to it, and that sort of works, but I want a kind of helter-skelter style spline, where it spirals upwards to form a cone shape.

    Is there any way to do this? I’ve tried using Bezier curves and I do have good knowledge of the pen tool in Photoshop, but it always comes out a bit weird. 🙁

    Cheers.

    Chris Wood replied 15 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
  • 4 Replies
  • Brian Jones

    March 27, 2011 at 2:15 am

    the helix spline needs to be a cone?

  • Chris Wood

    March 27, 2011 at 2:45 pm

    well yeah, imagine the path a helter skelter slide takes, it spirals down, getting wider as it reaches the bottom. I need a spline that does this, because I want to be spinning round the bottom, and then have the camera move up to focus on the object from top-down.

  • Adam Trachtenberg

    March 27, 2011 at 3:41 pm

    You can independently adjust the start and end radiuses of the helix spline; doesn’t that do what you need?

  • Chris Wood

    March 27, 2011 at 5:45 pm

    Exactly what I wanted, thank you very much!!

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