Noise on camera position

[mindsample]

I would like to shake my camera in position and rotation.

I remember using 3dmax that you would simply apply a noise texture to the position and rotation channels and then blend it with the "normal" animation curve .

I am not succeeding in maya, I usually do the "noise" by hand, then blend them together in the trax editor, which works kinda fine, but its a bit inefficient.

Can somebody take me through this ?

Thanks

[failure]

Parent camera to a locator. Animate locator for main movement and write an expression for camera. Something like this:

float $amplitude = 1;
float $speed = 1;
float $p = time * $speed;
vector $offset = dnoise( <> );
locator1.translateX = $offset.x;
locator1.translateY = $offset.y;
locator1.translateZ = $offset.z;
// same for rotation

Or you can create nosie texture node and connect r, g and b values to x, y, z of camera. Let the time drive uv coordinates of the texture. Adjust the speed of movement by changing noise frequency. ( Best is to make perlin noise with one octave )

[joojaa]

I have a few old demonstrations of this available at...

http://www.hut.fi/~joojala2/highend

namely the shaker.zip and animcurves.zip wich shows a much more elborate demo along with scripting resources, also it comes with a ple flavoured version too for all those ple users out there.

This directory is miscelanous clutter ive done for exhange over the years. And as allways most i done in a hurry

[mindsample]

as I am not into MEL at all, I will have to go with the locator driven camera. For now.

Thanks for your help

[joojaa]

you dont need to understand it... just run it