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Walkthrough Assistant
Animation menu > Walkthrough Assistant
Walkthrough Assistant lets you easily create a predefined walkthrough
animation of your scene by placing a camera on a path and setting the height,
turning the camera and viewing a preview. This feature is available from the
Animation Menu.
Procedures
To create a Walkthrough camera:
1 Choose Walkthrough Assistant from the Animation menu.
The Walkthrough Assistant floater is displayed.
2 In the Main Controls rollout, click the Create New Camera button.
A free camera named Walkthrough_Cam01 is created and displayed in
the viewports. The camera is also listed by name in the Cameras list. If
the camera is not visible in any viewport, zoom out to see it.
Additional rollouts are also displayed in the floater.
NOTE You can rename the camera with a more descriptive name from the
Modify panel.
To set the camera path:
1 After the camera is created, create a path in the scene using the desired
spline shape or NURBS curve.
NOTE Text and Section are generally not useful shapes for creating a camera
path.
TIP You will have smoother camera movements if you set the Creation
Method for the spline shape to Smooth or Bezier instead of Corner.
2 Click Pick Path from the Path Control group, and select the path you
created.
3 Click the Play button or scrub the time slider to see the camera move
along the path.
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