Hi folks,

Please check out the attached .hipnc for your consideration.

In it, i have a camera track happening over 240 frames.

If i now change my frame amount to 500 frames, i get the same track happening more slowly, over 500 frames.

But perhaps i don't want this. Perhaps i start with 240 frames, create my track, then decide i need more frames at the end for something else, so i increase the number frames in my scene to 500. But i still want my initial track to happen over the first 240 frames.

So my question is: where in Houdini is it set over which frame range a follow path will happen?

Perhaps i want several separate follow paths to happen in one scene:

1st: over 1-240 frames
2nd: over 300-420 frames
3rd: over 400-500 frames

So basically i'm asking: how do you make a follow path independent of the number of frames in your scene?

Thanks! ……… D

OK, for any other noobs wondering the same thing, you need to do:

camera node > constraints > path

Right-click on “position”: delete channels

Now you're free to set the start and end points (or any other points) of the path where you like (in time) and animate between them.

came in clutch for a fellow noob