Ralf Jonas wrote:
 > Hi,
 >
 > now that I've managed to write some macros to line up dozens of dominos
 > I'm trying to follow the falling dominos with the camera. But that
 > looks  really nervous and abrupt. Any hints for a smooth camera movement?

Instead of making the camera move along a path, per se, give them camera 
an inertial vector, a rotational vector, and a mass. Then with each 
frame, calculate the the movement of the camera and find it's new position.

Then, during the animation, start applying "energy" to those vectors to 
affect the desired movement.

The nice thing about this method is that it's framerate independent and 
can produce quite complex and natural feeling camera movements (makes it 
easy to add physically correct "errors" like bouncing and 
over-compensation).

I would also recommend writing a quick math macro that can determine the 
vectors automatically based on a series of points and information about 
how the overall behavior of the camera (maximum rotational/linear 
acceleration and the like).

I think you'll find the implementation far more simple than my 
explanation. ;)		

> 
> http://home.nexgo.de/auspeitscher/Domino_4.mpg (9 MB)
> 
> By the way: Has anyone a good texture and normal pattern for a domino? ;-)
> 
> Thanks in advance
>   Ralf
>

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