Hello, it's Saga from Arvis Artists, and today, the video is from your request: how to create a walk-through for animation. Basically, the walk-through is when you imitate a tour of a space. So, it's usually from eye level and you imitate walking through

some area. To be honest, I don't really recommend this one. It's quite boring and old-fashioned in my opinion. There are much better and more creative ways to create animation. If you want to know what I'm talking about, check the link in the corner. Anyway, if the clients want this, it's the

job of 3D artists to know what they said and how to do it. So, let's jump into 3ds Max. I've prepared a simple scene with the city and some trees around. We'll start the path here between trees and then we'll go through the city.

Let's create a line, the smoothest the better. In this case, I'll do this just roughly. I'll adjust this later. [Music] Okay, we can stop somewhere here. Let's adjust some vertices. It's quite important to make these corners rounded, so the transition is

smooth. [Music] So, you can see that the line is not really smooth, for example, here. We can change the interpolation steps. Let's say 16. [Music] Now, let's create a camera. [Music] Turn off the target. You can see that I don't have the ground

on zero level in the Z axis. So, in this case, it will be easier for us to move the line roughly to zero level position and then move up to a level position, so something around 160 centimeters. [Music] Next, select the camera and go to

animation panel choose work for assistance you can see that we have the camera selected here if there will be more than one camera in the scene you'll be able to choose it from this panel as well now click on pick path and let's choose the line we've just created

camera was rotated so we need to adjust the position here is the option that we can check the path to eye level option and set up the eye level height it works great if you have your ground at zero level in z axis but I've already adjusted the height of the line

so there is no extra calculation needed so let's see how it works [Music] great [Music] let's take a look at how it looks from the camera view you can see that the camera is a bit choppy in some parts we can add a normalized line modifier

[Music] check the choke notes option so we can easily see how the vertices look on the line [Music] let's leave the default settings there is still a problem we need to make this line smoother yeah much better I make the interpolation step 200.

[Music] [Music] okay looks good [Music] now you can adjust the speed as you want you can make it faster you can just move the last keyframe towards zero frame let me show you the preview [Music] or you can make the movement slower in

my case I need to change settings and make the timeline longer I change the end time value to 1400 now let's move this frame to the end let's see the preview I leave it like this okay now let's say we want to make this

work for more interesting and we want to see what's on the left hand side let's turn on auto key let's say we want to turn to the left somewhere here so let's rotate the camera a bit actually let's move the frame a bit

backwards [Music] go back and rotate the camera to be [Music] straight [Music] let's go forward [Music] let's rotate the camera to be straight again [Music] now let's see the preview [Music] you can see that the camera will be

rotating when it comes to this point you can notice that the moves are not really natural and now it's the time to use the curve editor click at this icon look for the camera and rotation click on that rotation click here to make the curve visible in

this panel you can see that we have sharp corners here to make the transition smooth we need to round these corners click on the vertex and choose option set tangent to auto [Music] let's adjust this a bit [Music] [Music] [Music]

[Music] [Music] I move this key down to make this transition more natural let's see how it looks [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] we can also add one more key and imitate that we keep our eyes in this direction

for a little longer let's move it here to create a roughly straight line [Music] adjust the vertices [Music] okay let's see the preview okay it's done [Music] I hope all is clear for you and there is no more mystery behind working for

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Walkthrough Animation in 3ds Max | Camera Walkthrough Tutorial

Walkthrough Animation in 3ds Max | Camera Walkthrough Tutorial

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