Hello,
I'm animating two different scenes. In each scene the camera follows a linear path.
In the first scene the path is shorter then in the other.
The camera speed of the two different scenes must be the same!
Is there somekind of formular I can use for scripting this?
Wim
You just have to script the two cameras with the same number of frames.
Jacques
Hello Jacques,
That is the issue. If I use the same number of frames for a different lenght of path, the same number of frames on a short path the camera will move slow and on a long path the camera move fast.
I want that the camera speed is the same, short or long path.
Hi Wim,
if you save every frame as single picture-file, you could adjust the frames/second in your video-programm or in the animation producer frrom MS.
Wim,
What you need to do is use Path Distance option. I have attached a file that shows how to do this. If you have two paths that are not the same distance and you want the camera to move at the same speed it is pretty obvious that you can't do that by having the camera travel to the end of both paths in the same number of frames.
In my attached example a have two paths the straight line (shorter path) is 100 meters long.
I want to have the camera move to the end of this path in 500 frames.
Because my animation is 30 frames per second I figure 500/30 = 16.6667 seconds of animation.
I divide my path distance 100meter by 16.6667 to get ~ 6
I use this in the Path Distance field 6*tSeconds now my first actor will travel to end of the line.
For the second actor I use this same speed, now my second curvy path is a little longer so I will not get to the end but at least you have both moving at the same rate. You can just do this for you cameras and be good to go.
As a reference point if your Master Units are Feet 88*tSeconds would be 60 miles/hour
If your Master units are Meters then 27.7778*tSeconds would be 100K/hour
HTH
JF
Thanks Jerry,
That's exactly what I needed!