Placing cameras in the viewer
There are three ways you can place cameras in the scene view. They can be moved once they are placed by either dragging them in the scene view or changing the values in the parameter editor.
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Place cameras in a specific location in the scene view |
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Place cameras at the origin |
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Place a camera by looking through it |
When looking through the camera there are handles on the sides of the scene view which allows you to orient and crop. |
Handles
Clicking on cameras in the scene view gives you more camera and light manipulator handle options. The two that are unique to cameras are the focus handle and the frustum handle.
Frustum handle
Allows you to set the near and far clipping planes and the focal length.
Focus handle
Allows you to control the depth map focus.
Use the view keys to move a camera
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Look through a camera as described above. You can also choose a camera to look through once it is created by choosing it in the camera menu.
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Lock the camera to the view by clicking the Lock camera/light to the view button, which is located on the toolbar on the right side of the view. You can also lock the camera to view by by turning on Tie Camera (or Light) to View in the camera menu.
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Use the tumble, track, and dolly keys to move the camera.
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Unlock the camera to place it.
Make a camera look at an object
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Create an object.
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Create a camera.
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Click Look At on the Modify shelf.
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Select the object to look at and press Enter.
You can also make a camera look at an object by setting it on the Lookat Options tab on the Transform tab of the parameter editor.
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