Autodesk LIGHTSCAPE, Manual

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Setting Camera Orientation
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Moving Keyframes
You can move selected keyframes in any orthographic
view. If more than one keyframe is selected, dragging
any one of them drags the entire group.
The first time you edit a keyframe (by either moving
it or adjusting its slope handles), the slope handles
and the keyframe are in the same position. If you click
and drag an unselected keyframe, the keyframe
moves. If you select a keyframe first, then click and
drag, you adjust the camera slope handles.
To move a keyframe:
1.
Click the Path tab in the Animation dialog.
2.
Make sure you are in Select mode by clicking the
Select button .
3.
Make sure you click and drag the actual keyframe
as you move it and not the handles. This is especially
important when the keyframe and the handles are
very close together.
You can also explicitly position the selected
keyframes by entering X, Y, and Z coordinates for
each in the appropriate Keyframe Position boxes.
Deleting Keyframes
Select the keyframe(s) you want to delete, then click
Delete Selected on the Path panel of the Animation
dialog.
The selected keyframes are deleted and the path is
adjusted accordingly.
Setting Camera Orientation
In addition to setting the camera path, you can also
set the direction in which the camera looks as it
travels along this path. For instance, you can create a
camera with a path that proceeds straight across a
room and a camera view that sweeps left and right as
if a person were looking around a room while walking
from point A to point B. By default, all keyframes are
set to look in the direction of the path.
Note: To visualize the camera target, set the
perspective view to Camera View while setting the
camera orientation.
It is possible to assign different Look At modes to
different keyframes on a path. This creates a Look At
path (displayed in green) that indicates the change in
the target as the camera moves.
Click and drag here to
move the keyframe.
Click and drag here to
adjust the path curve.
Keyframe Position boxes