Keying Fov?

[lakehaze]

I searched the forums to no avail and I checked out the Maya help. This is the related material that I found:

"The Attribute Editor displays attributes you can edit and key (animate). You can key attributes by 'right'-clicking them in the Attribute Editor, and then selecting Set Key from the pop-up menu. This menu is not available for attributes you cannot key. "

Well, in the attribute editor, the menu is not available for the 'Angle of View" attribute. Does that mean that I cannot animate my FOV? It seems that there should be a way to do it. I'm not very familiar with MEL, but I think there is a way to manually code the Angleofview Att.

Any ideas? Thanks

[iotrez]

u can make non keyable attributes, keyable in channel control.

[joojaa]

you cant make it keyable but you can animate fov. Read on!

Angle of view is a convinince slider! It does not truly exsits as an attribuute, its a wrapper for calculating the focal length.

(they are 2 ways of expressing the same thing), So what you do is you set the angle of view and key the focal length parameter!

BTW zooming is however considererd a bad thing to do with camera though breefer to dolly instead bacuse zoom is disorienting for the audience. But it serves in some sepacial camera things such as the vertigo trick where you dolly away and zoom at same time, irst used in vertigo, but reecently used in lord of the rings for example just when they first encounter the undead riders. BUt limit the use of theese.

[lakehaze]

Thank you guys

I should have tried to key the focal length, I didn't even look at it... It just didn't occure to me that there would be two focal length sliders, sigh...

Thanks again,