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Subject: Setting a plane to face the camera

UofOstudent opened this issue on Jan 30, 2008 · 4 posts
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UofOstudent ( ) posted Wed, 30 January 2008 at 10:52 PM · edited Wed, 15 July 2026 at 8:10 AM

I've been experimenting with using 2d "cardboard cutouts" to fill in for background characters and I was wondering: is there a way to quickly align a plane so that it faces the camera?  I don't need it to automatically align itself whenever the camera moves, a "one-time" alignment is all I'm looking for.

bwtr ( ) posted Wed, 30 January 2008 at 11:32 PM

Have you tried using the Billboard or Splat?
(the Billboard maybe comes with one of the DCG plugins that I am so used to using it that I have forgotten and think it comes naturally with Carrara! A must have!)

bwtr

Hoofdcommissaris ( ) posted Thu, 31 January 2008 at 2:44 AM

 You can also use a 'Point At' modifier, so the items are always facing the camera.

GKDantas ( ) posted Thu, 31 January 2008 at 11:08 AM

Yes thepint at is the best answer... but ifyou have the version 6 theres a misterious primitive called SPLAT that can dothe task...butlike the name says its very "primitive" and you cant see the preview using OpenGL

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