Camera following a path + turn

[Anonymous]

Hello guys! I am totally a noob with maya but I want to try to do something.. So I have a question.

I exported minecraft world to maya, made a path with a camera attached that goes over the bridge, down the hill, then follows the road. But I want to do so that after my camera flies over the bridge, while it goes down the hill It would look at a minecraft character but would still continue to follow a path and after some time my camera would turn back to a path. I tried using keyframes but either I have no idea how to use them or this is not the way it should be done because as soon as I add keyframe, my camera stops following a path and.. yeah.. Any help pls?

[saihtam · Accepted solution]

Here's what I would do. Create a camera with aim. This will give you a group with the camera and it's aim. Attach the group to the motion path and then animate the aim to follow your character. I recommend to use constraints if you want to have a consistent follow on the character, but perhaps create a group above the aim that you constrain. This will allow you to animate the aim and have more artistic control ontop of the automatic motion.

I did a little video going through this as well.

[Anonymous]

That was very helpfull! Thanks, this is exactly what I wanted! 😮

[saihtam]

Great! Remember that if you need more control over the camera you could try to use the camera that has aim up also. Good luck!