Cineversity

So I have two quick questions, so I tied them into one post

Question 1.

If I make a selection of part of a plane that has been converted to polygons, the action point is in the center of the selection. If I wanted to rotate from the edge of the selection, how do I do this? Under the rotate tool, there seems to be some options, but none say mouse. To be clear, I want the center of my rotation to be where I click my mouse in the side view.

Question 2.

I have a large beach sand scene. I want to have some texture displacement on the foreground sand to show more detail, so I need more polygons in the sub patch. The sand goes back a few 100 yards, so I don’t need that much mesh resolution away from camera. So, is there a way to base resolution on the distance of the camera? I’m familiar with some other programs with this, but cant seems to find it for Cinema.

Thanks!

Hi psussi,

Please have a look here for Q1
https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/share/ccKbBaFpV3rtBbIrcqmRVUy0gMr0KsgzJaFas5uY6Ep
Manual
https://help.maxon.net/r23/en-us/Default.htm#html/TOOLROTATE-MDATA_AXIS_GROUP.html#MDATA_AXIS_FREE

For Q2 you need to download something from here:
https://labs.maxon.net/?p=3158
To get this done
https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/share/Pg3bjfpR1NxSMxV5aqrEVHe1EJIF88wOJOOEMqPxmTd
Test this if the camera move works with your settings.

If possible, please use for each theme a new post; thank you. In this way, the thread headline can be more specific, and the forum is more usable.

All the best