Camera located by population or xyz coordinates?

[gregsandor]

While I'm rendering I'll throw this out and see what happens.  I'd like to do something like attach a camera to a poplulator, to keep it at the same height above the surface of the ground for driving, flying etc.  Is there a way to to this with xyz shaders or anyother way?

[Henry Blewer]

I am not sure about linking the camera to a population the way you suggest. Creating a camera path with a constant altitude should not be difficult. Are you trying to 'drive' the population by using the camera's path?

[gregsandor]

I was thinking of driving along the highway I'm modeling.

[Henry Blewer]

You could use a foreground image for the cars interior. Or, if you have the interior modeled and want to pan the camera around, just use a duplicate path for the car. Then add the camera rotations as you need them.

[bobbystahr]

IIRC there was an animation utility in terragen classic that was helpful with this...to bad there's no SDK so folks can start writing stuff like this for TG2.1

[gregsandor]

bobbystahr, that's exactly what I had in mind.  I could set my camera to remain a fixed distance above teh ground as it moved.