Animation: link target & camera paths?

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    RichORichO
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    I am looking for help/tutorial on animation.  I’d like to specify a path that runs along a South wall w/many windows (East to West), but I want the target of the camera (moving along the path) to be a parallel path located inside the home at some depth (toward North). In essence, viewer walking along outside of a south wall w/windows, but always looking directly North. Like a movie fixed movie camera pointed North, but traveling on a rail that runs East to West. I’ve seen reference to linking 2 paths but as yet have had no success in actually getting this to work … as such, I fear my approach is wrong, hence why I am looking for a tutorial video (if one exists).

    Thanks!

    #17644
    RichORichO
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    I figured it out (after a while). The “issue” was that i was unable to see the “arrow” mentioned in the instructions, located on page 599 of users manual, stating “Step Three: Connect the Paths 1. Click on the camera path to select it. 2. Click and drag the target point (the point at the end of the arrow) to the target path, then release your mouse button. The target point automatically snaps to the camera of the tar- get path. You are now ready to preview the animation.”

    In short, the target is such a micro-tiny-dot that it is barely decernable from dust on my screen. Once I was able to locate/see the dot (by using the move-the-target option), it could then be snapped/linked onto the target path. Sample animation included.

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