As GIFs seem to the social media rage these days, I wanted to build a couple using Orbiter screenshots or video clips. (I'm assuming it's OK for me to do this as my only objective is to amuse a couple of friends online; if it isn't, will Martin or somebody please advise.)
I would like to create one GIF in which the visual would be a spacecraft becoming visible as a point, in the distance, and then zooming by the observer, in much the same way the Enterprise was shown speeding towards the viewer in the opening title sequence of the original Star Trek series. I'll want to create another GIF in which the spacecraft zooms away from the viewer. An easy semi-acceptable version of this GIF would be simply to have a ground based camera track the spacecraft from the launch point, but I would prefer to do this variation in mid-flight as well.
So either way I need to have a stationary camera view positioned and oriented just a bit off from where my spacecraft will be a short time later; and I also need to have the camera maintain position rather than tracking the spacecraft.
Is there a camera setting that allows this? I realize that the velocity needed to achieve even a suborbital trajectory from Earth is probably too high for this to be feasible, but I might be able to make it work from a small moon or asteroid. The launch origin is immaterial to the visual effect I would like to create.
I would like to create one GIF in which the visual would be a spacecraft becoming visible as a point, in the distance, and then zooming by the observer, in much the same way the Enterprise was shown speeding towards the viewer in the opening title sequence of the original Star Trek series. I'll want to create another GIF in which the spacecraft zooms away from the viewer. An easy semi-acceptable version of this GIF would be simply to have a ground based camera track the spacecraft from the launch point, but I would prefer to do this variation in mid-flight as well.
So either way I need to have a stationary camera view positioned and oriented just a bit off from where my spacecraft will be a short time later; and I also need to have the camera maintain position rather than tracking the spacecraft.
Is there a camera setting that allows this? I realize that the velocity needed to achieve even a suborbital trajectory from Earth is probably too high for this to be feasible, but I might be able to make it work from a small moon or asteroid. The launch origin is immaterial to the visual effect I would like to create.
