Orient Surface to Camera Definition (ideal for entourage in architectural renderings)

I wrote this definition for the purpose of copying pictureframe
surfaces in architectural scenes (people, trees, cars, etc...), and
orienting them towards the camera for use with multiple views.

Now updated for use with build 0.6.0059

Tags: camera, entourage, face camera, orient, rendering

Attachments:

OrientToCamera.ghx, 138 KB

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Permalink Reply by Stu on February 9, 2010 at 2:17pm

dope, gonna check it out.

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Permalink Reply by Stu on March 11, 2010 at 2:34pm

worked well, but for me, it rotated the resulting srfs 180 after running the deff.

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Permalink Reply by Chun Qing Li on February 9, 2010 at 4:28pm

hi john, when i was trying to download your examples / attachments, i got "OrientToCamera_v1-1.0.ghx.xml" rather than grasshopper file. do you know what the problem is? thanks

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Permalink Reply by Charles Aweida on February 15, 2010 at 12:01pm

download linked file as
OrientToCamera_v1-1.0.txt.ghx
and if that doesnt work try
OrientToCamera_v1-1.0.ghx.txt

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Permalink Reply by ĐỒNG VIẾT NGỌC BẢO on March 26, 2010 at 5:12am

thanks John!

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Permalink Reply by Mark James on April 15, 2010 at 9:51am

Just came across you definition, really useful, but some surfaces were flipped through 180 or 90 degrees so I ended up with upside down and side ways people.

Any idea why that might have happened?

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Permalink Reply by John Dolci on April 15, 2010 at 11:11am

Fixed the flipping issue, all surfaces should come out right-side-up now.

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Permalink Reply by Mark James on April 15, 2010 at 11:29am

Is the definition on your first post the updated one??

As it looks different but I'm still getting the same problem? With the same people.

I'm trying to use surfaces cut out as people silhouettes, but I guess that shouldn't be an issue as rhino just sees it as a surface whatever shape it is.