[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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