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Get head to follow object as it moves in animation.

kapynvne_328bc2e563kapynvne_328bc2e563 Posts: 23
edited December 1969 in Daz Studio Discussion

I would like all members of a crowd of people's heads to follow another character on stage who is moving about.

I tried using an old script from mcasual, attaching a camera as a follow point to the head of the character moving about and then running the script on each member of the crowds heads.

However this didn't work I think because the script is for an older version.

But basically I want the crowd to look at the first character, the follow parameter doesn't seem to work either.

The script I tried was from here.

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts2/mcjlookatthecamera

Anyone know how to get it to work ?

Comments

  • JaderailJaderail Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    The script is updated to DS4 but is only for 1 figure at a time I believe. So each Figure would need the Script applied to it. I do not think it was designed to work that way. You could PM Casual and ask if they have one that would work for a crowd. They have threads in the Freepozitory.

  • kapynvne_328bc2e563kapynvne_328bc2e563 Posts: 23
    edited December 1969

    Its not the crowd that is the issue, its that it doesn't follow the character for all the frames of the animation.

  • JaderailJaderail Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    Did you Parent the Camera to the Figure?

  • kapynvne_328bc2e563kapynvne_328bc2e563 Posts: 23
    edited December 1969

    Yes, parented to the figure head

  • JaderailJaderail Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    Well that's odd, how many frames does it drop?

  • kapynvne_328bc2e563kapynvne_328bc2e563 Posts: 23
    edited December 1969

    It only does the first one.

    I parent a camera to the head of my target figure, I then select view from this camera using daz camera interface (you have to do this as the script only targets the active camera).

    I then select the head of the figure I want to look at the other figure using the scene tab. I then run the script over the entire range of frames for the animation.

    After the script has run I change camera views to look at my scene, and indeed the figure whose head I selected is looking at the target camera, but only for that first frame.

    :(

  • JaderailJaderail Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    I still say go PM Casual. I just use KeyMate and GraphMate and hand edit follows in when I do them. I'm still in test fase of learning all the tools so I'm not 100% on it all yet.

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