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slawes
02-22-2005, 03:47 PM
I am having trouble assigning multiple trackers to multiple vector points on the same spline. Lets say I have a shot of the back of someones head. I create a spline for the head with a couple of the vecotor points specifically placed on the tips of the ears. I then create two trackers, one for each of the tips of the ears and track the shot. I then attach one of the trackers to one of the vector points at the tip of the ears. This all seems to work fine and when I scrub through the footage the vector point stays attached to the tracking point with the rest of the spline remains in one place. Then I take the second tracking point and attach this to the other vector point on the tip of the other ear. This also seems to attach just fine as well, but for some reason I loose the attachment of the first tracker.

How can I attach multiple vector points to specific vector points on the the same spline ?

I am sure its something I have overlooked and is probably very straight forward, but for the life of me I can't quite figure it out.

Many thanks,
Stephen.

paulm
02-22-2005, 04:02 PM
Trackers should apply to all selected vertices if you control+select multiple points and pop up the menu over one of the points. It should say "Apply Tracker (Points)" and all selected points will be affected.

If you have multiple trackers you want to apply to different points, you'll need to do them in sequence.

slawes
02-22-2005, 04:39 PM
Yes, I have multiple trackers that I want to apply to different points. Sorry to be a pain, but what do you mean by 'you'll need to do them in sequence.'

Thanks.

paulm
02-22-2005, 04:44 PM
You'll have to select the first tracker and the first point, and apply the tracker, then select the second tracker and the second point and apply again, etc. There is currently no way to group multiple trackers with multiple points all at once. But it is fairly efficient to apply multiply trackers one at a time.

marcop
02-22-2005, 04:49 PM
Select one tracker. Select the point you want to apply the tracker to. Right-click on the point and select Apply. Click on the next tracker to select it. Select on the next point that you want to apply the tracking to. Right-click on the point and select Apply.

slawes
02-22-2005, 07:21 PM
So, I guess I am missing something here. I have followed your dirctions to the 'T', and every time I apply the second tracker to the second point on my spline, the first tracker and first point get detached from each other.
I have noticed in the timeline that there is a single set of keyframes that get generated when I attach a tracker to a point. It's almost as if that every time I apply the second tracker to the second point, instead of it being an additive task, the keyframes get replaced by the second point.

marcop
02-22-2005, 07:44 PM
This appears to be busted. We will fix and include in a point release which will come out in few days.

slawes
02-23-2005, 12:16 PM
Many thanks.