i got it to work but it took a lot of trial and error haha
i thought the curve would need some normal/up vector to work correctly
fiddling with orient along curve got it to work
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two useful camera tools:
a frustum outline that you can add to your camera to easily see what your camera is up to.
a backplate card that follows the camera that you can use as phantom backplate for renders and such.
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rebuilt as much as I could remember, there are probably going to be some artifacts / bugs that pop up, but hopefully helpful as a starting point
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you can use a quad remesh once u have the triangles 😮 or a regular remesh + subdivide to get all quads
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quick tip, you can use heightfield remap on any volumes, same with other heightfield nodes like copylayer, blend, etc
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Will post as soon as I get to my puter
put it in your python3.11libs folder. (make sure it is called ready.py. that makes houdini run it when it is supposed to)
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not as elegant but might work?
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i made a better version that can handle really wonky shapes.
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KineCAM a way to animate your camera in sops
becomes easy to do a lot of common camera stuff. path animations. camera rigs. perhaps some spring system or let your camera follow a particle or whatever.
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drag visualizer from source > common > click pencil, choose icon and click the upper right corner next to the ? to pin
save as default
then it will be permanent
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