Maya: Camera, Rigging, Animation, & Billboards
This technical challenge, involved foliage Billboard assets not orienting to the Camera.
The source of the issue was because the Billboard’s only getting Orient Constrained to the Camera node, I had to consider anything an artist could use to manipulate the Camera World Space translations.
In order to solve the challenge and accommodate artist workflows in a non-destructive manner, I consolidated the translate values of the Camera and all controls that could drive it with floatMath nodes into a single transform node.
From this point I could reliably Orient Constrain the Billboards to the placeholder. As a result, this gave artists the functionality to safely manipulate the Camera node and/or controls with Billboards orienting properly towards the Camera.
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