maya camera mapping
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Maya tutorial on Camera mapping. Often there are times when we want a projection Map based for the camrea view rather than a planar/ cylindrical / spherical / etc mappingTRANSCRIPT
Tips & Tricks Intermediate: Mapping Date: 1st July 2009
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Camera mapping Both in the past as well as present there has often been queries of how to do camera mapping. The idea of this type of mapping is to take the texture from projection through a camera rather that local mapping. This is often need for VFX shots. Shots like the object seeming to come out of backgrounds and more often for effects like talking animals etc… We are going to use much simpler objects to show this example.
Create a camera or use the persp camera and create an image plane
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And put in an image
Shade the object with a surface shader as we do not want it to get any highlights or shading. We projection map
the color with an image
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The same image as that of our image plane and render this
We can notice the background sort of distorted, as the mapping on the object does not match the image in that of the camera plane. Now we need to tell the object has to get not the planer mapping but mapping from the camera. Selct the projection mapping from the hypergraph menu
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Change the projection type
Screen clipping taken: 7/1/2009, 4:52 PM From Planar to Perspective…
This will then allow us to edit the Camera Projection Attributes what we need is to change the Link to camera and specify from which camera the projection has to take place.
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Once this is done, more often we'd want to bake the texture on to the object.
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We can then animate the object to come out of the screen or morph to another shape
In the similar way we can make some nice effects … For example From a Grumpy toad
To a Toad with a bit of smile
On similar process we can create various expressions as well as talking animals/objects.