Plugins + Scripts AutoCamDirector

AutoCamDirector — Automatic Camera Director

Set it up once and the camera keeps working. AutoCamDirector orbits your subject,
dwells on each position, moves between them smoothly, and switches focus or subject
on its own — a one-person film crew for your VaM scenes.

Version 1.13.0 (first public release)
Package EZhustler.AutoCamDirector.1.var
Load on CustomUnityAsset (CUA) or Empty atom
Built with VaM 1.22.0.13
License CC BY-NC...

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som45oul said:

Fantastic plugin and idea. I wonder - could you also add the ability to add quick cuts and cross fades? It would make the camera work more dynamic.

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Rudybd43 said:

Any link to download the look used on the AutoCamDirector image?

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• Presets — every tab now has Load / Save / Default, using VaM's own file browser (with a real Save button). A global preset holds the whole plugin (global settings + all three subjects); subject presets are portable to any subject. Plain JSON in Saves\PluginData\EZhustler\AutoCamDirector.
• Adjustable front zone — the front-facing chance no longer parks the camera on one spot: those positions land at random inside a Front arc (deg) you can set (0–180°)...

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EZhustler said:

Thanks — and yes, quick cuts are coming: a per-subject "Cut chance (%)", plus a "Cut now" action you can fire from a trigger or key binding (opt-in, so existing scenes stay untouched). A true cross-dissolve can't be done in VaM, since only one camera view exists at a time and a plugin can't composite two angles into it — but because our actions are triggerable, putting the cut and MacGruber's Screen Fade on the same trigger/key gives you the cut-with-a-flash or dip-to-black look you're after.

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BunnyBlack said:

Where to find scene from your video preview?

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EZhustler said:

It's a MMD stage made by myself, check out my resources list

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v1.16.0 (package version 3)

NEW Director Mode companion panel - experimental: quick hard cuts inside a min/max window, adjustable cut chance
(0 = cut by hand only), a minimum hold after each cut, and optional per-cut joint / subject / close-up changes
(close-up distance is measured from the body surface). Hard cuts are exact - the camera stops exactly where it
lands - and a landing point can no longer end up inside the filmed character (body triggers count as body, checked
every...

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ujax said:

This plugin is extremely powerful,I would like to ask how to solve the problem that when the target object is on the bed (with the coordinates elevated), the camera Angle often travels below the horizontal line of the bed sheet. There might already be relevant options in the configuration, but I find it too difficult to set

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EZhustler said:

Two settings fix this. On the Global tab set Camera height (m) to about 1.4 - 1.7 and
Height random (m) to 0 - 0.1 - the random is what dips the camera under the sheet. On the
Subject tab lower Max look-up (deg) to 10 - 20: the camera always aims at the focus, so
limiting the angle also limits the position, and it can no longer sit below the subject's
horizontal line. Optionally set Max look-down (deg) to 30 - 45, and keep Avoid obstacles on.

If your scene itself is raised, note that Camera height is measured from world y = 0, so add
your floor height to it - a bed platform at y = 3.0 with 1.5 m wanted above the mattress means
about 4.0 - 4.5.

When it looks right, click Save in the Preset row of the Subject tab, name it e.g. Bed, and just
Load it next time. Print diagnostics copies the camera height and eye pose to your clipboard if
you want to send me the numbers.

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What is new

- Facing reworked: Auto now derives the front from the body cues (nipple midpoint, mouth) and only falls back to the torso bones when no cue is usable; new Body cues only option; the cues are low-passed and sanity-checked, so a rig whose bone Z axis is 90 degrees off is corrected instead of being stuck on hold last.
- **Use subject facing is now a master switch**: it sits above Facing source, and unchecking it greys out (and really...

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ujax said:

There is a small problem. In director mode, if the focus shift is enabled and the shaking breast or hip control is captured, the camera sometimes shakes with the frequency, making people feel dizzy. I'm not sure if my guess is accurate. Perhaps I'm not very proficient in understanding functions.The above content was translated using a translator

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1. Focus smoothing (s) on the subject tab (default 0.2) — raise it to ~0.4–0.8. This is the knob that damps a moving aim point, so it is the one that fixes this symptom.
2. In the Director Mode panel, uncheck 'Disable follow smoothing' box and raise Follow smoothing (s) (default 0.15) as well. Note this switch is ticked by default on purpose: with follow smoothing off, a hard cut lands exactly where it was rolled, so unticking it may make cut landings slightly less exact.

• If it is a breast control, pick a stable joint instead — or switch Focus mode to Random joints: its candidates are only the six main joints (head / neck / chest / abdomen / pelvis / hip), so breasts are never picked there.
• If it is the hips/pelvis, set that joint weight to 0 (the six weights only apply while Joint set is Custom).
• In Director Mode, New joint focus on cut re-rolls the joint on every cut, so it can land on a wobbly part again — turn it off while you are tuning this.

EZhustler said:

Good guess — you are basically right. The camera aims at the focus control, so if that control is jiggling (a breast control, or the hips), the aim point jiggles too and the view shakes.

Two things to try, in this order:

1. Focus smoothing (s) on the subject tab (default 0.2) — raise it to ~0.4–0.8. This is the knob that damps a moving aim point, so it is the one that fixes this symptom.
2. In the Director Mode panel, uncheck 'Disable follow smoothing' box and raise Follow smoothing (s) (default 0.15) as well. Note this switch is ticked by default on purpose: with follow smoothing off, a hard cut lands exactly where it was rolled, so unticking it may make cut landings slightly less exact.

Also worth checking: which joint is being filmed (the status box at the top of the panel shows it).

• If it is a breast control, pick a stable joint instead — or switch Focus mode to Random joints: its candidates are only the six main joints (head / neck / chest / abdomen / pelvis / hip), so breasts are never picked there.
• If it is the hips/pelvis, set that joint weight to 0 (the six weights only apply while Joint set is Custom).
• In Director Mode, New joint focus on cut re-rolls the joint on every cut, so it can land on a wobbly part again — turn it off while you are tuning this.

If it still shakes, click Print diagnostics and send me the log part — it records the last 4 seconds frame by frame, which shows exactly what is oscillating.

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weiwei19901122 said:

無法使用，掛在人物原子還是相機原子?如何啟動?

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