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Editing a trajectory with a motion path

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Editing a trajectory with a motion path

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- [Instructor] If this were a more complicated walkthrough animation, we might opt to attach the camera to a spline using a path constraint, but this is a very simple case, and that would be overkill. And I covered the path constraint technique in another course, which is 3ds Max: Cinematography. In this case, we can get very good results just using the motion pass feature of the standard position channels. So all we have to do is select our animated object and go over to the Motion panel, and then activate Motion Pass. And we can see that object's trajectory or path moving through space. I'll get in closer, control + alt and middle-mouse, take a look in the perspective view here too, and this explains partially why our animation looked a little bit strange, and that's because it's doing this kind of strange horseshoe shape movement, where it's actually kind of moving forward relative to its own line of sight or film back. It's actually moving forward a little bit and then moving…

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