topic Re: Baking Camera animation? in 3ds Max Forum

Baking Camera animation?

ldotchopz7FPNL — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 20:51:21 GMT

This seems like a simple task but i am really struggling to find a native way to bake animation in 3ds max.

I have a target camera parented to a dummy object, the Collapse option in the Motion Panel does not work, as soon as i delete the parent the camera breaks.

The only thing i could find was a script https://bodyulcg.com/product/bake-animation/
But this doesn't seem to work with cameras.

Surley there is a way to do this easily?

Re: Baking Camera animation?

thor98_ — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 21:14:31 GMT

@ldotchopz7FPNL If you add a Position Constraint to your camera, and select the dummy as constraint object, you can then collapse to keys and it'll turn back into Position XYZ controller - no need to parent to the dummy in this case. Normally I prefer using Link Constraint, but this doesn't work well with targeted cameras

Re: Baking Camera animation?

ldotchopz7FPNL — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 22:32:28 GMT

Wow that worked great, thanks!

Would be nice to have a proper baking tool built into max like in Blender.