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Poul Erik · Joined: 18 Mar 2005 Posts: 1 Location: Denmark

Hi Forum

This is wonderfull software!! But, once Syntheyes did what the job, I had major problems getting things right in Max. Can I scale an imported Camera and animation to fit a model in max? I did the opposite, scaled the model to fit the imported Camera. Far from ideal, but it worked. I had planned some alignment of track and model in advance, but I never got it quite right. What kind of considerations am I to do? Is there a tutorial or a book that covers this topic?
Greets Poul Erik

ssontech · Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 10:36 am Post subject:

You can set up the scale in SynthEyes before you export with a distance constraint or adjusting the coordinates of the constrained points in SynthEyes.

Or, you can create a null in max and reparent the camera and trackers to it, then scale it.

vertex_wrangler · Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Posts: 5

vertex_wrangler · Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Posts: 5

whenver i find the need to scale the scene, I simply select the cam in max and scale directly... works so far.

dellis · Joined: 20 Mar 2005 Posts: 8 Location: Canada

I would love a short tutorial on this.

Chad · Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Posts: 5 Location: NYC

Don't parent, constrain. Parenting won't keep the trackers and the camera together.

- Chad

mikegentile · Joined: 26 Mar 2005 Posts: 11 Location: Laguna Niguel

i prefer to group the camera and nulls then link them to a dummy that is located at the origin.

mike

jw · Joined: 22 Nov 2006 Posts: 10 Location: Vancouver, BC

There is a constraint system you can use in Syntheyes to set the distant between to trackers, which works and is mentioned in the tutorials. Or I like to grab the camera and point cloud and scale the whole thing until the geometry matches. One of the MAX guys here also wrote a simple script for scaling the scene off of two trackers.

I have tried linking and constraining the camera and point cloud to a dummy in max and it has never worked.