Camera movement ease in/out?

Piimon · February 15, 2008, 06:21:27 AM

I don't know has this been discussed here before but is it possible to do smooth animation in's and out's for camera movement in the current build? (i.e. camera gradually slows down to a full stop)

I think that I have succeeded to do so in some of my animation test by accident, but I'm having hard time to reproduce this feature.

Or am I stuck just to render more frames and do these eases in postproduction?

-Piimon

Will · February 15, 2008, 06:41:36 AM

Hmm, animation still a pretty unfinished feature in the current build so my guess would be that its a post production thing at the moment. Though for the record I don't have Deep+Animation so I have no clue.

rcallicotte · February 15, 2008, 08:38:51 AM

Like Will said, the animation module has yet to be fully addressed and Planetside has mentioned it will probably be later this year.

Mr_Lamppost · February 15, 2008, 08:19:43 PM

I have the animation module and at this stage in its development there are no real controls for adjusting the interpolation between animation keys. The default interpolations are not linear but I have no idea what function they do use.

As previously mentioned development of the animation module was always going to follow on after the final release.

Oshyan · February 15, 2008, 11:23:28 PM

You can achieve this effect with an appropriate mix of keyframes near your target final camera position, but admittedly it is a bit tricky and nowhere near as intuitive as it should be. This is something that will be worked on for completion of the Animation Module later this year (and Deep+Animation purchasers will of course get a free update when the final of that module is available).

- Oshyan

Piimon · February 16, 2008, 07:57:13 AM

Thanks for your replies. This clears things up

-Piimon

firesuite · February 17, 2008, 10:56:11 AM

A simple timeline graph with options for bezier curves and such would be super

Oshyan · February 17, 2008, 07:32:34 PM

Quote from: firesuite on February 17, 2008, 10:56:11 AM
A simple timeline graph with options for bezier curves and such would be super

Yes, of course. We'd like to get something like that implemented in the future, but of course that will be after the coming "gold" release.

- Oshyan

Cyber-Angel · February 17, 2008, 09:30:46 PM

Wouldn't F-Curves be more flexible as Lightwave, 3DS-Max and XSI among others use F-Curves?

Regards to you.

Cyber-Angel

Oshyan · February 17, 2008, 09:46:25 PM

As far as I know "F-curve" is just a term that refers to the graphing of a function (a "function curve"). It does not refer to a specific type of function, curve or interpolation (e.g. spline, or the more specific bezier), only to the representation of the function as a visually graphed curve, generally in an editable form. In other words no, F-curves are not "more flexible" - that is largely a meaningless statement. Perhaps "F-curves" *as implemented in these applications* have an advantage, but that is really down to implementation approach rather than implementation *type*.

In any case as far as I understand the implementation of e.g. Maya, it is a fairly standard approach and one we would likely handle similarly.

- Oshyan