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- Gonzalo Garramuno said:
- >
- > That's exactly what I meant. Even better, if you had enough control, you
- > could for example add what some people here are asking for: a user
- > interface for controlling depth of field. With expressions, just create
- > a ball, and make an expression so that the ball controls the camera depth
- > of field. Voila! Not the best thing, but then you do not have to wait
- > a year for Allen to finish it adding that into LW or for someone to
- > develop a new plug-in.
- >
- > Anyway... who sent that post? Are you reading? Is that the type of
- > plug-in you are working at?
- >
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- Yep, I'm here. Yes, the Expressions plugin does most of what others
- have said, and some more... But it does have its limitations. It
- can only modify the position, rotation and scale factors of an
- object, bone, light, or the camera. This is a limitation imposed by
- Lightwave.
-
- As for the depth of field question... One of the original PowerMacros has a
- function to help that out. It creates an envelope for the focal distance
- based on the distance between the camera and an object in the scene at
- every keyframe. Not quite interactive, but it's the best that can
- be done with a 3rd party piece of software(you can't change any of
- the camera parameters(except for pos,rot,scal) from a plugin).
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- The original PowerMacros are being ported to LW 4.0/Windows now
- and will be released at the same time as the new plugins(one of which is
- Expressions).
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- Mark
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