Smooth & Easy Camera Animation for OR Standalone, ORC v1.21 Tweet

[ssouth]

Here is a resulting animation. I attached one of the ships to the camera and made it do a crazy roll...



Steve

[pegot]

Does this script work on Mac or is it Windows only?

[ssouth]

Does this script work on Mac or is it Windows only?

as long as the Mac can run a LUA script I would think so but I am unable to test that though since I don't have a Mac.

download and try...

[ssouth]

By the way, all the ship animation in this test was done with the OCR script, then it was composited and some VFX added with BlackMagic Fusion:

[steven369]

Thank you guys for this AWESOME script!!!

[AlexKotovKn]

a camera that focuses on the chest of the player character would be nice if anyone can make it
the default camera is not good enough due to free running lvls

[ff7darkcloud]

It doesn't work anymore with Octane Render 3.0

[roeland]

This is quite a cool extension.

Just tried it in Octane 3.0, as far as I can see it works.

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Roeland

[ff7darkcloud]

Hi Roeland thanks for your reply, I tried again with 3 alpha 3, when I select output directory or hit render nothing happens. Maybe the plugin needs some kind of overhaul for Version 3? Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

This is an example of what I use this for: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4haRGGKqUmQ

[roeland]

I think the problem is that a while ago we standardized all the enumeration tables to be members of the octane table. So the constants to specify file formats are octane.imageSaveType.PNG8 etc.

To manipulate paths use the functions in the octane.file table: octane.file.join(path, ...) will join paths together and it will correctly handle the case where any of the paths happens to be an absolute path. It will also handle the different kinds of slashes. octane.file.getFileNameWithoutExtension will strip the file extension, at the moment the script will overwrite the project file when you have an ORBX package open.

You may get the project path and file name as follows:

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local sceneFile = octane.project.getCurrentProject()
local projectPath = octane.file.getParentDirectory(sceneFile)
local projectName = octane.file.getFileNameWithoutExtension(sceneFile) .. ".orc"
local orcFile = octane.file.join(projectPath, projectName)


Finally note that the `string.gsub` function searches for a pattern, a pattern matching any extension of 3 or 4 characters is [[%.%w%w%w%w?$]].

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Roeland