[Bf-funboard] Spotlight w/empty

joeedh joeeagar at prodigy.net
Fri Dec 10 12:15:05 CET 2004


alex wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, joeedh wrote:
>
>>> Empties are the only way to control cameras and spotlights? What 
>>> about just
>>> manually rotating them from camera view? Works fine enough for me...
>>
>>
>> Yeah, but that's fairly cumbersomce.  I think that this is a great 
>> idea. Maybe holding down ALT-E while adding an object would 
>> automatically assign an empty to it?
>
>
> Cumbersome? Move mouse up, view aims up, Move mouse down, view aims down,
> Move mouse left, view aims left, Move mouse right, view aims right.
>
> Terribly cumbersome, I couldn't imagine anything less intuitive ;-)
>
Yeah, but don't forget animations!  You really need empties in many 
animation situations.

joeedh


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