Rotate to Face Camerta and Vertical Movements...

Rai López · Post by **Rai López** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 9:26 pm

Seems that when you move the camera (or the layer with Rotate to Face Camera activated) horizontally all works fine... but what about vertical movements? Seems that the layer made'em mad and is derformed (sheared), with all kind of unwanted movements... (specially with Particles). Is this a bug or I'm doing something wrong?Is this so because exist some powerfull reason, perhaps? Well, I'd only like to know... THANKS & CIAO!

7feet · Post by **7feet** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 8:33 pm

I hadn't seen this particular topic before, but I just ran into it myself. I have a character with a basically round head. I'm trying to use the psuedo head turn technique by placing the facial features in 3d space and setting the head shape to face the camera. As Ramon said, it works just fine in you rotate the group layer in Y, but if you rotate in X it doesn't stay facing the camera. Seems like an oversight to me. I can't see where this sort of inconsistency would be a benefit, so I too would request that this get's tuned up. Thanks.

--Brian

Post by **Lost Marble** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 9:49 pm

Actually, the feature is only intended to rotate in Y. In other words, a layer with this option turned on will only rotate in Y to face the camera.

Yes, this means that the layer will not truly face the camera in all situations. The main purpose of this feature was for scenery-type objects like trees and things - to make them face a camera that is moving around on (or near) the ground.

If you want to move the camera and/or objects around in totally arbitrary ways and have the objects face the camera, this option in Moho won't (and wasn't intended to) do the trick.

7feet · Post by **7feet** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 6:19 pm

Gotcha. Makes sense. Wouldn't hurt as an option though, but I'll work around it. Thanks.

--Brian

Manu · Post by **Manu** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 4:23 pm

Well, just bumping this one up to say I would love to have a full "face camera" feature. You can't just assume people will only use it for trees on a background.