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Solved Plug-in to make person look at object

Clocksmith

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I have a SpawnPoint set up and am trying to set up keyframes with Acid Bubbles Timeline to have a person being animated look at the object I have the SpawnPoint set in. Is there a plug-in to do this? Macgruber's Gaze isn't an option because I need to set head position keyframes in the animation to get the person in the pose I want. Gaze seems to be deactivated as soon as I set a keyframe of any kind for the head.
 
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You can use Gaze together with Timeline. Gaze only controls head rotation, not head position. Hence you can tell Timeline to only control head position and not rotation. Here, I mean the "Control rotation" checkbox:
You should be able to use the eye target control. Isnt that an option? Or am I misunderstanding the question?
 
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You can use Gaze together with Timeline. Gaze only controls head rotation, not head position. Hence you can tell Timeline to only control head position and not rotation. Here, I mean the "Control rotation" checkbox:
 
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You can use Gaze together with Timeline. Gaze only controls head rotation, not head position. Hence you can tell Timeline to only control head position and not rotation. Here, I mean the "Control rotation" checkbox:
That is huge. I didn't know that. From when I first tried it I always assumed they didn't work together.
 
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Works just fine. Here is some old video of some Mocap Timeline combined with Glance+Gaze:
 
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You can use Gaze together with Timeline. Gaze only controls head rotation, not head position. Hence you can tell Timeline to only control head position and not rotation. Here, I mean the "Control rotation" checkbox:

Awesome. That is exactly the type of solution I was looking for. Thank you so much.
 
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