[Closed] Script to Create Target Camera Relative to Object

Ah! Just saw your post Denis. When I evaluate yours, I get a Runtime Error: ‘Unable to decode value: “9″”

But near as I can tell, my method works with the simple ‘move’ line… or am I missing something?

ah yes, I knew it was too good to be true. of course the extra ‘move’ line I added is relative to world coordinates, so it doesn’t work properly when people are seated at an angle… hm.

I ask myself this question every day

Nope! Still a runtime error. Now it says ‘Unable to decode value: “9’’”

Also, this code gives me the error: ‘No ““move”” function for undefined’

try(destroydialog SpectatorCameraDialog) catch()
 rollout SpectatorCameraDialog "Spectator Camera" width:200
 (
 	local cameraname = "Spectator_Camera"
 	
 	edittext cameraname_tx "Name:" text:cameraname fieldwidth:150 align:#right offset:[9,0]
 	button createcam_bt "Create Cameras" width:192 align:#right offset:[9,4]
 
 	
 	on cameraname_tx changed text do 
 	(
 		cameraname = text
 	)
 	on createcam_bt pressed do undo "Create Cameras" on
 	(
 		cams = for node in selection collect 
 		(
 			name = node.name + "_" + cameraname
			c = TargetCamera name:name target:(TargetObject name:(name + ".Target")) lens:21.661 fov:79.4535 transform:node.transform parent:node
 		)
 		select cams
		in coordsys parent move c [150,0,500]
 	)
 )
 createdialog SpectatorCameraDialog

here is it. it works now:

try(destroydialog SpectatorCameraDialog) catch()
 rollout SpectatorCameraDialog "Spectator Camera" width:200
 (
	 local cameraname = "Spectator_Camera"
	 
	 edittext cameraname_tx "Name:" text:cameraname fieldwidth:150 align:#right offset:[9,0]
	 button createcam_bt "Create Cameras" width:192 align:#right offset:[9,4]
 
	 
	 on cameraname_tx changed text do 
	 (
		 cameraname = text
	 )
	 on createcam_bt pressed do undo "Create Cameras" on
	 (
		 cams = for node in selection collect 
		 (
			 name = node.name + "_" + cameraname
			 tm = (transmatrix [0, units.decodevalue "9'", units.decodevalue "-5'"])*node.transform
			 c = TargetCamera name:name target:(TargetObject name:(name + ".Target")) transform:tm parent:node
		 )
		 select cams
	 )
 )
 createdialog SpectatorCameraDialog
 

yes it does! thank yeh kindly sir.

Now on to tutorials so I can learn what all this means!

Just put “in coordsys local” in front of “move”

Funny thread

EDIT: Oh, i missed the second page. So just ignore this