Move camera along a predefined path

Scripting Issues
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Good morning from the sunny island of Cyprus…
I have a camera issue that i know most of you have already dealt with: I would like to be able to move my camera along a predefined path inside my panda world, but have no clue on how to create such a predefined path and make the camera follow it, perhaps allowing the user to slightly divert from the path…Any help will be greatly appreciated…

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If its in a straight line try a Lerp interval;
panda3d.org/manual/index.php/Lerp_Intervals
If its not straight try a motion path:
panda3d.org/manual/index.php/Motio … _Intervals
panda3d.org/manual/index.php/Motion_Paths

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Thanx, i checked at the manual page and it says that Motion paths in Panda3D are splines created by a modeler that are then exported to egg files. I tried creating some splines in 3d studio but the exporter does not export them at all. Is there no way of exporting the path from 3d studio?

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Can’t you just spawn a 1 second repeating doLater task to record camera’s position and orientation ?