Hi all,

While trying to Map a camera to multiple
objects, to get a easy solution for making the camera
follow animated objects and switch the focus
I got only a buggy behaviour, when animating the weights
of mapped objects.

Here's a solution, if somebody needs it.

http://the-final.com/cam-mapping/

The camera target point is pointwise mapped to a sphere.
This sphere is mapped to 2 nurbs-curves, which are
dropped in the animated car levels (Easy to change the
targets then, simply drop the curves in other levels ;-).

The "cam-target" sphere has 2 Tags, which are animated.
A script in the spheres script-tab is transferring the
Tags values to the Pointwise-Weights.

Sounds complicated, but direct animation of the
weights has stopped the complete animation system :-(

It's possible to jump between as many targets as you
need, simply add some Tags and some lines to the script.

Maybe helpy, too, in other anims where you have to animate
lattice mapping weights.

BTW: If somebody knows an easier solution: You're welcome :-)

Questions? Feel free to ask :-)


Matthias

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