ShotNew
Follow the waterline
The camera glides along the shore just above a tracked sea level: a rising sea lifts it, a draining sea lets it sink.
- Version
- 1.0.0
- Added
- 23 October 2026
- Films
- Not used in a film yet
Parameters
| Name | Type | Default | Range | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| level (Can change over time) | number | 0 | -30 to 100 m | the sea level it follows, metres over today's sea: give a track or follow the counterCan change over time |
| clearance | number | 8 | 2 to 100 m | how high the camera rides over the sea level (never under 2 m over today's sea) |
| offshore | number | 40 | 5 to 500 m | how far seaward of today's waterline it runs |
| from | number | -150 | -3000 to 3000 m | where along the shore it starts, from home's door |
| run | number | 30 | 0 to 3000 m | how far it glides along the shore; keep it under a third of the clearance for each second of the shot |
| forward | bool | true | – | which way along the shore it glides: toward azimuth 120 or back toward 300 |
| landward | number | 40 | 0 to 90 deg | how far its view turns from the shore line toward the land |
| tilt | number | -1 | -30 to 30 deg | how far its view looks above (up) or below (down) the horizon |
| fov | number | 65 | 8 to 110 deg | the lens |
| ease | choice | cruise | cruise, linear, inOut | cruise holds a steady speed with soft ends; inOut starts and ends at rest |
Use it in a film
film.js
move: element('waterline-follow', { level: 0, clearance: 8 })Use it from your agent
Ask your agent to put it in a film. It finds the element by name.