this is me napsal(a):
> Hello,
> 
> I've started to play around with Chris Colefax's spline macro, and here's what
> I'm trying to do, and what I've noticed:
> 
> What I've done is define a spline - no problem there - a shiny metal sphere to
> look at, and a camera - again, no problems here either.  I've placed the metal
> sphere 5 units in the z direction, and the camera -15 units in the z direction
> (x and y for each are, of course, 0 and 0).  Then, I animate both along the
> spline according to Chris' tutorial.  Note that I use different values of auto
> banking for each.  My goal here is to try to get some sort of chasing effect
> where the sphere wobbles a little to the left and right around corners as the
> camera trails (also wobbling a little to the left and right).
> 
> What I've noticed is the sphere stays dead center in frame, for a rather boring
> and unrealistic chase scene.  So, my questions are:  Is my logic right
> regarding the effect of the offsets, and of not, how would one place the camera
> and sphere so the sphere appears to moves off axis as it races along the spline.
> 
> 
> 
I don't know the macro but you may do this by looking behind the sphere.
What the brain actually does is that it predicts (based on a linear 
extrapolation) the object's position and looks there.

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