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Advanced camera tools using rails

Advanced camera tools using rails - Unreal Engine Tutorial

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Advanced camera tools using rails

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- [Instructor] For this sequence, let's add in a rig rail and animate the camera along that. Rails and cranes can be found in the Cinematic tab of the Place mode. Let's grab and drag out a rig rail, and let's get a cinematic camera actor as well. Now if you drop these out and don't see anything, press the G key, that'll turn on and off Game mode so that we can see their placeholders. We want to move the camera from one side of the room to the other and maybe avoid these people, so let's set up this rail to do that. I'm going to go ahead and rotate it into position. When you click on a rail, you can see that at the center, there's a spline, select the endpoint and move it to change the shape of the rail. You can also right-click on the spline to add new spline points. See how the rail changes shape to accommodate the spline points, we can use this to create camera tracks. You can also add new points by holding Alt as you…

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