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Subject: Re: Suggestion (Multiple Cameras)
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>This is a major need -- not for the sake of jumping from
>camera to camera to simplify editing, but to let you have
>"extra" camera to do things like set up lights, follow
>moving characters and so forth. For example, a stock
>Macromodel trick is to align spotlights with extra cameras,
>so that you can see where their shadows will fall (For
>further fluidity, both can be aligned and attached to a
>line seg, (or in LW parlance, a 2-vertex poly)).
At first I thought "well, just use the LIGHT VIEW", but I see you
mean to >>render<< from the light position, n'est ce pas?
Well, if not, "just use the LIGHT VIEW".
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>---- Kevin Bjorke ---- Animation Scientist ---- Hi Tech Toons ----