Constrain/aim cameras

[zoinks]

I'm having trouble making a camera follow along with the animation in my scene. I used the contrain>aim command, and linked it with my model, but the camera won't follow the animation. I'd appreciate some help.

[actarus]

why not animate the camera!???!

Just havint it point at whatevers moving in your
scene will look like crap anyways

-Tad
Tomi@tad3d.com
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[zoinks]

Tad,
I probably will end up animating the camera, just because I can't take it anymore!!! I'm new with Maya, and I hate when something's supposed to work and it doesn't. Thanks for the help.

[actarus]

Didn't mean to push buttons(but I often
end up doing that, hehe).

Anwyays, what exactly is going wrong with your
camera? You say your using constraints and parenting,
in what way is it not working?

-Tad
Tomi@tad3d.com
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[marble]

try it this way: select you model or group then shift select the camera, choose constrain aim. then you must set the aim vector: open the hypergraph, select the camera_aimConstraint_Node and open the atribute editor, there set Aim Vector to 0.00 , 0.00 , -1 that should work at least it works on my machine!

marble

[zoinks]

Well, the problem I was having was that the camera would turn away from the object I was aiming it at. After searching through the archives, I found I had to set the Aim Vector to 0, 0, -1, just as marble had suggested. It seemed to do the trick. Thanks for the help y'all.

[mary-jane]

for this, i always group the camera, and use the group to constrain, that way, it doesn't matter which way the constraint is aiming, you can rotate the cam to the right direction, and it will stay that way from the parenting!
that, and it's easier to do extra animation w/ the cam this way.

chronichrons

[idas]

In the creation of camera in bottom of creation window is a
Animation Option. And select Nodes: Two.
Now camera have 2 nodes, first camera and second point of
view. ### contrain>aim Its no good way. ###