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Take a tour around your 3D model by using ANIPATH command

7 Comments Aug-29-2008 | Posted by Burak Ozdemir | Printable Version | Level |

By using this command, we can simply prepare a path around a 3D model and move the camera around this path and create an animation. By this way, we can also see the models inside which we have to see also. If we define the path along which the camera will move by using _spline “not _polyline”, then there will be smooth turnings, not sudden, in our animation (video). Or animation will also have a better and nice looking view.

After entering _anipath command from keyboard, we select the ‘select path‘ option in ‘Link camera to:’ from ‘Camera’ part and then select the path that we defined previously.

Camera path will start moving from the first point that we entered.

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When select the Reverse option, camera will start moving from the end point, not the starting point, (in a way that it shows our model) in reverse direction to our starting point.

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In ‘Animation Settings‘ part, we can set the animation speed. You can also change the view of our solid model while we watch the preview our movie by clicking on the ‘Preview‘ button.
• 3D Hidden
• 3D Wireframe
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• Realistic
Now, let’s repeat our animation by using a different view angle. First thing that we have to do is to select a separate plane from where we will direct the camera to. Select the path that we created by using ‘select path‘ from ‘Link camera to:‘ option without touching the ‘Camera‘ and ’Target‘ parts from the dialog box that appears after we enter _anipath command. Window will appear again right after that.

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by selecting ‘Point‘ in target part and pressing ‘select path‘ just beside it, we can select the point to which our camera will look to.

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After checking the preview of animation by pressing ‘Preview‘ button, we press OK and save the animation. For those who are wondering how the video look likes, I uploaded a sample video to Youtube . You can watch video from here.

Have a nice day.