I am trying to move the camera upwards and to the right during an animation
and look at the same spot during flight upwards.  The problem I am having
is that the center of the screen wanders from the look_at location.  Here
is what I have for the camera piece:

camera
{
  location  <0.5, 1.0, -5.0>
  translate <1000*clock, 1000*clock, 0>
  look_at   <0, 0, 0>
}

The camera moves to the desired location but as was stated the look_at
location doesn't stay the same.  Has anyone seen this before or know what
may be happening here?  I am using POV v3.5.

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transforms (such as transltae, rotate, etc) are always applied after camera
keywords (such as location and look_at).

Simple solution:

 camera
{
  location  <0.5, 1.0, -5.0> + <1000*clock, 1000*clock, 0>
  look_at   <0, 0, 0>
}


 - Slime
[ http://www.slimeland.com/ ]

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I have a curve generator I use for my camera animations
PovHerm is freeware from:
  http://www.geocities.com/emory_stagmer/povherm
Hermite curves work really well for helicopter-like
camera movements.  Full descriptions on the website.

Emory Stagmer

Slime wrote:
> 
> transforms (such as transltae, rotate, etc) are always applied after camera
> keywords (such as location and look_at).
> 
> Simple solution:
> 
>  camera
> {
>   location  <0.5, 1.0, -5.0> + <1000*clock, 1000*clock, 0>
>   look_at   <0, 0, 0>
> }
> 
>  - Slime
> [ http://www.slimeland.com/ ]

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Slime wrote:
>transforms (such as transltae, rotate, etc) are always applied after camera
>keywords (such as location and look_at).
>
>Simple solution:
>
> camera
>{
>  location  <0.5, 1.0, -5.0> + <1000*clock, 1000*clock, 0>
>  look_at   <0, 0, 0>
>}
>
>
> - Slime
>

Yes, that worked.  Thank you for your quick response.

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