I thank God for showing me a great workaround! Create an empty with the same rotation as your moving object. Have this empty copy the location (constraint) of your moving object in World Space. Then make your cube (camera control) the child of this empty.

You still won’t be able to fly your camera rig, but you will be able to accurately move the cube along its local axes, which is the next best thing. To make it easier to select the cube rig when in the camera view, I duplicated the front face, then deleted only the face, leaving the edge outline. I then moved this outline in front of the camera and scaled it up just outside the camera’s view boundary, so I can easily select it while looking through the camera view.

EDIT: the child of constraint will cause this camera rig to no longer be flyable. It works perfect as long as the cube is not depending on the moving object. I will need to investigate further if there is a solution to this.

Camera > child of one Cube

Cube > Child Of Constraint (inherit Moving Object’s location for a “follow” rig)

Cube > Locked Track of Cam Target Empty (To: Forward Axis, Lock: Up Axis)

Cube > Damped Track of Cam Target Empty (To: Forward Axis)

Cam Target Empty > child of Moving Object

The bizarre thing is you can select the camera and fly it, orbiting around your Cam Target Empty, and the camera’s PARENT (the cube) updates to the correct location. If you translate or rotate the camera it won’t work correctly, but if you fly it, the parent updates. 🙂 If you need to pan up/down/left/right, just animate the location of the Cam Target Empty.

I praise God for guiding me to your tutorial!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q15m9bBx0DY

Thank you Patrik.