Bake Camera Path?

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Not Corona related, I’m sorry…

But a 3dsmax animation query for you smart folks…

I have a baked animation of a car. I have a camera and target that are linked (via the “Select and Link”) tool to the baked car. So car moves = camera follows.

I’m wondering if I can somehow also ‘bake’ in this camera movement? I want to use almost the exact same camera movement but a bit more gentle, smoothed (or just be able to edit the camera movement a bit so it doesn’t follow the car so harshly).

Any tips much appreciated!

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Well better late than never? You probably already solved it, but for anyone else that stumbles upon it.

1.Create a dummy and align to your camera
2. link dummy to your car
3. Click on your camera, go to animation menu > constraints > position constraint the camera on the dummy
4. still with camera selected go to your Motion panel >motion Paths selection level >, and click the Collapse transform button

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Excellent!

Thanks.

Hehe, yep this project is all wrapped up but good to know I can do this in the future.

I guess the next step would be to smooth the curves in the Curve Editor?

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Yah you can edit the motion paths/keyframes however you wish after the fact.