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    marked001
    last edited by 13 Jan 2009, 20:58

    ok.. so i'm working on a project that requires me to have multiple scenes with different elements of the final composed image, in each....think that makes sense.. now if i want to change the viewpoint of these scenes.... i'd have to delete them all and go back and create new ones from scratch...or do i??? is there a simple way to do this that i'm just totally overlooking? thanks.

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      Gaieus
      last edited by 13 Jan 2009, 21:46

      I think it was Jim Foltz who helped someone out once with a scrip(let?) but I cannot find it anywhere. This should be definitely some ruby stuff so if you want,I can move your topic to the Ruby Discussions.

      Gai...

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        marked001
        last edited by 13 Jan 2009, 22:54

        sure..thanks gai.

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          Chris Fullmer
          last edited by 14 Jan 2009, 00:27

          No ruby needed for this task. The attached video shows how to do it.

          [flash=826,616:1d8a2ptn]http://chrisfullmer.com/forums/camera_update.swf[/flash:1d8a2ptn]

          So what I'm showing is a model with scenes that control the camera location and hidden layers. Each scene has different blocks showing. But say I decide that I want a new camera angle for my scenes. You position it where you want the new camera place. Select all scenes to update and click update. Then only select "camera". Everything else will stay the same, only updating camera, for all scenes selected.

          Another method would be to not even save the camera location in each scene. Then create scenes that ONLY store camera locations. So you could then click on a camera scene, then click on a scene that manages hidden layers. I use that method a lot. I could explain it better if you'd like.

          Chris

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            marked001
            last edited by 14 Jan 2009, 00:30

            ahh..great, chris.. you know, i was thinking that in my head.. but posted before i tried it.. apreciate clearing that up..i was really hoping i just wasnt paying attention πŸ˜„

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              Chris Fullmer
              last edited by 14 Jan 2009, 01:25

              Its ok, I'd guess a large majority of people have never had to use that functionality of SU. Its really handy though,

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                Jim
                last edited by 14 Jan 2009, 01:56

                @gaieus said:

                I think it was Jim Foltz who helped someone out once with a scrip(let?) but I cannot find it anywhere. This should be definitely some ruby stuff so if you want,I can move your topic to the Ruby Discussions.

                Yes, I think it was tomsdesk who wanted to move the camera straight up by some distance in every scene without changing the camera direction. I wrote a one-off script to do it, but I'm not sure where it is either. It would not be hard to reproduce, though.

                Hi

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                  Gaieus
                  last edited by 14 Jan 2009, 11:13

                  @Chris: 😲 πŸ‘ one learns something every day for sure. I knew mastered scenes (remember BaseCamp;) ) and this is a very cool feature I've never known. Thanks!

                  @Jim: fine,at least I know I don't have Alzheimer now (yet). Definitely that was another case then and couldn't have been solved by Chris' method.

                  Gai...

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                    plot-paris
                    last edited by 14 Jan 2009, 14:04

                    cool, thanks Chris. I didn't know about that one either! 😍

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                      Chris Fullmer
                      last edited by 15 Jan 2009, 20:09

                      Thanks folks, glad it helped!

                      And to have solved Tom's solution, he could have changed the camera height by clicking on the "place camera" icon, checking the current height, adding 10' to that and typing in the new value. The camera would set itself. Then update all scenes as described above.

                      Chris

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                        Gaieus
                        last edited by 16 Jan 2009, 08:42

                        Yeah, but in Jim's example it was a wlkthrough with different camera positions and each had to be changed.

                        Gai...

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                          Chris Fullmer
                          last edited by 16 Jan 2009, 08:52

                          Yeah, the method I shows totally falls apart when you have different things that you want to update in each scene. You have to do that manually for sure. what I hate the worst is when I need to change layers on and off over lots of scenes 😞 That makes me cry. πŸ˜„

                          Chris

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