User Guide
Director MX 3D Tutorial 117
Pan the camera vertically
Now you’ll test the pan behaviors that you added.
1 Play the movie.
2 Press the Up Arrow key to see the camera tilt up, and press the Down Arrow key to see the
camera tilt down.
3 When you finish moving the camera, stop and rewind the movie.
Add the Dolly Camera behavior
Another way to manipulate the view of a 3D world during movie playback is to dolly the camera.
Dollying is a motion picture technique in which the camera’s position changes without changing
the direction of the lens itself (as if the camera were transported forward and backward, without
turning, on a tripod with wheels).
For dollying, you will drag the behavior to the Score rather than the Stage, although you could
use either procedure.
1 If the Score is not open, select Window > Score.
2 In the Library palette, verify that 3D > Actions is selected.
3 Drag the Dolly Camera action from the Library palette to the Magic trick sprite in the Score.
Release the mouse button when the pointer appears with a plus sign and empty rectangle.
4 In the Parameters for Dolly Camera dialog box, specify the following:
• In the Amount to Dolly Per Frame text box, type 20.
The Dolly Camera action moves in world units, which are units of measurement unique to
the 3D world.
• In the Which Group Does This Behavior Belong To text box, type dolly. Then click OK.