camera contol grasshopper

All,

Is there any way to contol the rhino camera with grasshopper. The control points seem to bea specific type of point in rhinos system and can't be grafted to a point command in ghop.

Was interested in attaching a z value slider move to a camera to explore various views a spheres horizon from various heights. Would appreciate any help or thoughts.

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on February 28, 2010 at 12:06pm

Hi Jonathan,

the only way to do this is to write a Script in a VB or C# component. It's not particularly difficult, all you need is a Viewport Name and a Point location (or points if you also want to set the target). But I've never tried this before, it might result in a very clunky display.

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David Rutten
david@mcneel.com
Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Damien Alomar on February 28, 2010 at 12:08pm

Check out the most recent post on my blog. Within the definition at the bottom of the post is a scripting component that will change and adjust the camera of the active viewport. You can specify the camera and target location, along with the focal (lens) length and the camera up vector.

Permalink Reply by Jonathan A. Scelsa on February 28, 2010 at 1:06pm

Damien, Thanks very much this vb script is very VERY useful. Much obliged.

-js

Permalink Reply by Marc Syp on May 19, 2011 at 11:39am

Hey Damien,

Your fantastic blog isn't pulling up anymore (site under development)... is it possible to get a copy of the camera control scripting component? This would be super useful for me right now.

Thanks,

Marc

Permalink Reply by Damien Alomar on May 23, 2011 at 6:27pm

Yea, the blog is down... and being the super tech savvy guy that I am, I have no backups :(... its been said time and time again, but back up EVERYTHING no matter where it is or who controls it.

Anyway, below are the links to the camera control ghx and the 3dm file (they are on a different site). Let me know if you need anything else or have any questions.

ghx

http://www.box.net/shared/y5ev1uip7r

3dm

http://www.box.net/shared/ol1mn987az

Permalink Reply by John O'Keefe on June 8, 2011 at 8:25am

any chance you have a furgen build you can provide a link too? was super useful for something i'm currently in the middle of... would be so awesome - thanks...

Permalink Reply by Luis Fraguada on June 8, 2011 at 9:33am