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- From: BARILEJB@ctrvax.Vanderbilt.Edu ()
- Subject: Re: Help with Camera Positions....
- In-Reply-To: as000232@orion.yorku.ca's message of Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:19:42 GMT
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- In <1993Jan26.141942.1@orion.yorku.ca> as000232@orion.yorku.ca writes:
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- > The problem that I am having, however, is that it is difficult to
- > deal with the camera position. What I'm really trying to find, is some
- > software that resembles a flight simulator, but will let you fly past
- > your own 3D creations/landscapes and monitors and keeps track of your
- > path. I've seen such programs as CAMPATH and AEWIRE, but neither were
- > of any help.
- >
- > If anyone has any ideas/pointers to software or source of one
- > kind or another that might help me out a bit, I would appreciate if
- > someone could pass it along. As well, since I'm doing this for fun and
- > not for profit, I'd like to try to keep cost to an absolute minimum.
- >
- > Suggestions?
- >
- > Graham TerMarsch
- > as000232@Orion.YorkU.CA
-
- Graham,
- One of the best utilties I've found for POV it called SP - Dave's Spline-
- Path Generator. You can find this on the You Can Call Me Ray BBS. Basically,
- you make a data file of a number of points and some other information, and
- SP will calculate position and rotations for your camera. You can do
- acceleration/deceleration, etc... with it as well. It's downfall (at least
- as of version 0.3) is that it only does one frame at a time (you tell it
- which of the N frames to compute). It's realtively easy to make a batch
- file for this though.
-
- Let us know if you find anything else.
-
- -Jason Barile
- barilejb@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu
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