Walkthrough Assistant

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Instead of manually manipulating the camera, you can make animating much easier by using the Walkthrough Assistant. The Walkthrough Assistant allows you to “fly” your camera to explore your virtual designs. Although the tool's name implies interior usage, the Walkthrough Assistant is actually suitable for both interior and exterior scenes.

In essence, it simplifies the tasks of creating a camera, constraining that camera to a path of your choice, and then makes it easy to edit and animate various aspects of the camera such as tilt, pan and lens values. All manipulation is centralized in the same dialog so you do not have to browse through various panels to make changes to camera parameters.

Skill level: Beginner

Time to complete: 1+ hours (includes rendering time to create an animation.)

Features Covered in This Tutorial

In this tutorial, you will learn how to:

Create a target camera
Adjust camera head tilt and angle
Use Set Key to animate a camera
Render an animation to a sequence of still image files
Create a movie file of your animation

Tutorial Files

All the files necessary to do the tutorials can be found on the program disc in the \tutorials\intro_to_animation folder, unless otherwise specified. Before doing the tutorials, copy the \tutorials directory from the disc to your local program installation.

Walkthrough Assistant

Features Covered in This Tutorial

Tutorial Files

In This Tutorial