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Baking Camera animation?

ldotchopz7FPNL
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Baking Camera animation?

ldotchopz7FPNL
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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?

 

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@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

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Thor Nielsen

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ldotchopz7FPNL
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Wow that worked great, thanks!

 

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