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Old 01-13-2009, 06:37 PM
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Played with this new tool a bit and while its a interesting new way to play with cameras, seems like they deviated from their own standard functionality (which would have enabled it to be really useful):

It creates a single "Camera" element in the Collaboration menu. I think it would have been much better if each camera key were assigned its own collaboration object node, and then would have associated properties in the properties menu.

I will probably file an enhancement request, these are the issues I have with it:

- No way to move the camera while you are in its position (lock my view to the camera and then be able to move so I get real time WSIWYG feedback).
- Need to be able to manually edit the cameras postion/orientation by keying in values.
- Render mode should be included as a property of that camera (or a separate method of animating with render mode)
- Placing camera points does not work with ALT (to pick up center point or to place two points on top of each other so the camera does not 'wiggle')
- Smooth the curve if desired (if I add a new keyframe the motion is 'jagged'.) Probably just give a slider which controls the amount of smoothing 0 = none 256 = smooth)
- Copy/paste a camera from one open file to another. (I want to export and reuse a camera, but not all the other scenario stuff)
- 'Acceleration/Deceleration' on the interpolation would be very useful so the movement started slow and increased in speed.
- Special effects like perspective, depth of field, exposure, or even focus would be nice at some point in the future.


Anything else from you guys before I submit an enhancement request?
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