Camera tracking problem

3dcal

Hi,

I want to use a sphere as a target for the camera to track, but when in camera view,
the sphere is offset to the right.

However, in Top View, it looks like the camera is aimed at it correctly. (?)

I've searched here for posts about it, and online for tutorials about it, and in the documentation, but
don't see a solution.

Thanks!

Dave Savage

Hi

Your first port of call to check are the camera's Pan V and Pan H settings. They should both be set to 0 to place your tracking object in the dead center of the picture.

These two settings are found by selecting the camera and clicking the little [A] attributes button in it's floating menu (highlighted in the picture below.

Hope this helps.

Jamahoney

Or, you could just click on the Linking tab seen in Dave's pic, and then on Track Object Name and choose sphere.

Jay

Dave Savage

I presumed the problem was that the camera had been set to track the sphere already but the sphere still wasn't in the center of the picture.

3dcal

LOL! It's working fine, now.....no clue what was causing the problem earlier.

First, I created an empty scene from scratch with just a sphere. I selected the camera, and in "A" > Linking tab > Track Object Name chose the sphere.
The camera tracks it as I move the camera, and when I move the sphere, the camera follows it.

I also reloaded the problem scene and now it's tracking.

Just going with the flow.
Thanks for the help!

 

 

3dcal

BTW,    it did it again, but I noticed Pan V & Pan H (in Attributes)  were not "0".

I set them to = 0 per Dave's suggestion above

Your first port of call to check are the camera's Pan V and Pan H settings. They should both be set to 0 to place your tracking object in the dead center of the picture.

These two settings are found by selecting the camera and clicking the little [A] attributes button in it's floating menu (highlighted in the picture below.

Hope this helps.

Yes, thanks, it did!

Dave Savage

Cool, thanks for letting us know.