[Bf-funboard] Spotlight w/empty
alex
alex at schnittenparadies.de
Fri Dec 10 12:25:09 CET 2004
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, joeedh wrote:
> 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.
Hmmm. Do you also propose to automatically add an armature to a mesh then
when you do Add->Mesh->Cube? ;-)
Sorry, I'm not very constructive today.
alex at schnittenparadies.de
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