Moho Forum

Disney used to have this multi-plane camera I believe that was designed to do stuff like zoom closer on characters while the moon in the background stayed the same size.

Is this possible in Moho? I don't want my happy little sun filling up the scene when I zoom on a character.

Check the option "Inmune to camera movement" check box in general tab of window options of the layer (double click layer). It works great for that stuff.

It is in the layer options:



(Immune to camera movements) If you zoom with the camera, this layer will not be affected.

remember this layer doesn't have to be inside another layer (group, bone, switch, whatever...)

You'll get a better feeling of depth if you don't use "immune to camera movement" but rather place the BG further back in the Z-axis and dolly the camera instead of zooming.
You get a much better multiplane effect that way (It's pretty much like how a real camera works except that you dont have the focal length to play with...).

Appreciate the info. Last night I was playing around with it. I noticed some objects positioned differently on the z axis would sometimes disappear through the background when panning in a circle. I had to play around a bit with the settings- mainly sort by depth/true depth and make all the objects face the camera.

Pretty cool- I'm making progress thanks to you guys.

rylleman wrote:except that you dont have the focal length to play with...

You can play with focal length by changing the focal distance and focal range under Preferences - it's a little clunky, a bit like changing fixed lenses before you shoot, and you need to change zoom separately.

Regards, Myles.

myles wrote:You can play with focal length by changing the focal distance and focal range under Preferences

Sorry, that's not focal lenght, that is focus lenght, how far away and in what range objects should be in focus.
Focal lenght on the other hand is what kind of (artificial) lens you have on your camera. A standard lens is ~35-50mm which gives you a field of vision of 40-60°. A fisheye lens is less than 10 mm and gives you a very wide perspective while a telelens over 200mm gives you a very narrow perspective.

Having only focus distance/lenght is like working with a compact pocket camera where you can set your shutter speed and focus while having focal lenght would be like working with a system camera where you can change your lens to the best one suited for your image.