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Camera track of a quad in scene


Ok, Imagine you are playing the "cliff hanger" game from The Price is Right. The math is later down the road. For now I want the camera to do a 1 second (zposition) push in, (xposition) pan, (yposition) tilt in 3d space to show all the paralax magic, to frame my hiker. As soon as the camera move ends, I then want the camera to track my hiker as he moves. I have put the ramp and hiker in the same group and rotated them so that the math will be easier to move the hiker just in the x direction. However now I can't lock the x and y of the hiker to the x and y of the camera. The camera will then return to it's starting position and wait for the contestant to make the next guess. Then the process starts over. Camera zoom, pan, tilt to the current postion of the hiker and then switch to tracking the "hiker". In my case it is a bear on a motorcycle. Ready? GO! Thanks everyone.

On second thought I don't need to track the object because I know where it is going to end up, and how long it will take to get there along a linear path. Thanks everyone.
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Yeah, we did a similar thing - knowing where the final point of the camera will be when the climber travels "25" units, came up with a math formula for each dimension of my animation that would change and then travels along that path in proportion to how long the climber will travel.

Not exact same as yours, but funny how I also had the idea to group up the hiker and rotate the group to only have to have him move in 1-dimension.

Something else we added (that ended up being too much clutter on screen, so was axed, but still cool to see) was a second camera angle that was the close-up of the climber that stayed in the corner using a RenderView texture
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I like that idea of a second camera angle. We will probably use the screen space for a live shot of the contestant.
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