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40 questions linked to/from How can I make a camera the active one?
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How do I switch the active camera during an animation? [duplicate]
How do I switch active camera temporarily in the middle of an animation?
Thank you for the link, yes that is what I'm trying to do. But I'm not having much success. It seems that when I try to bind a ...
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Making Cuts from Camera to Camera [duplicate]
I have an animation where a cube goes from point A to B. When it reaches B, he will be out of sight from the camera.
How can I make a "cut", a.k.a., make the camera now show point B, where the cube ...
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How do I switch between cameras? [duplicate]
I have two render camera objects in the scene, about to be three, I'd like to know how to switch between them as when I hit zero, it only enters the view of my frontal camera(the first one I placed.) ...
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Blender 2.8 does not render current camera view [duplicate]
Why doesn't blender 2.8 render the view from the currently selected camera; this view:
produces:
How can I render an image viewed from a specific camera?
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Cycle through camera views [duplicate]
My scene has multiple cameras. Is there a way to cycle through camera views with a hot key, or a script?
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Change start time for each camera [duplicate]
I struggle with this problem - I want to get one animation from two or more points of view - to render this in one cycle I want to get 100 frames from one camera, switch to another one, get time to ...
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How can make the camera active? [duplicate]
How to add an other camera and make it active
How can toggle between the two cameras?
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How can I switch layers during animation? [duplicate]
I have 3 layers with 3 objects and 3 cameras.
Layer 1: cube + camera1
Layer 2: uv sphere + camera2
Layer 3: torus + camera3
camera1 is active from 1 to 79 frame.
camera2 is active from 80 to 159 ...
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Render view incorrect (Maybe) [duplicate]
I have a file that includes Camera Animation. It renders the animation fine or a single frame after selection.
What I want to do though is manipulate my viewport view and render that as a single ...
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Is there a way to move specific keyframes from the layout timeline directly into the video editor? [duplicate]
Currently, I only know that I should export out the frames as an image sequence to my computer and then import the image sequence back into Blender's video editor. It's fine for simpler animations but ...
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What's the quickest, easiest way to point the camera somewhere in blender?
Often I want to just point the camera to an object or a specific area in my scene to get an idea of how it'll look in the render. What's the most painless hassle-free way to do this in blender?
A ...
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How to set multiple camera views in one scene?
Is it possible to have several different views of one scene and set them as named "presets"?
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Is there a way to quick toggle cameras?
Let's say I have 4 cameras on a scene:
I would like to render with the first camera, see what it looks like, then switch to the "next" camera quickly and see what that render looks like.
Currently, ...
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Render Multiple Images from Multiple Cameras Simultaneously
I would like to be able to render images from 12+ cameras all in one click. How would one accomplish this?
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How do I cycle through the camera views?
When reviewing the existing cameras of a scene,
is there a way to quickly cycle through the views of all cameras?
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how to take images with multiple cameras with Script?
To be clear i want a script, which produces what i am describing below.
I want to iterate through all the cameras in my scene where each one renderes an image. I can do this manually by rendering with ...
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Different Cameras on different Viewports ? Blender 2.8
How to get this different cameras in different viewports in blender 2.8?
From docuemntaion:
"Local Camera
Active camera used in this view to override the (global) scene camera. The option is ...
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Is there a way to capture the viewport in Blender the same way as it is on 3DS Max?
I know that by default I can render the viewport and everithing that is in the viewport to be the same as in the render. But, when comparing 3DS Max to Blender, I have certain limitations. In Blender ...
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Add camera at random position through Python
I am using Blender for the first time. Currently, I have a basic scene with a camera and some light sources present. What I would like to do is to add a second camera that is located at a random ...
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Camera does not change it's position
I'm having this weird problem with my camera in which I can only render from a certain position that is not the one on the camera. It's like the view got detached from the camera and I can't change it....
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camera different position/view on render
I position my camera close to my object. In "Camera Persp" I see my object very close. This is what I want.
Now when I hit F12 to render my object, but it always renders from a wrong distance/position ...
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Is there a way to batch render images from several cameras?
There is one scene, but several cameras and I would like to render this over night to have one image per camera (no animation). Is this possible? I don't see a command-line switch to select which ...
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How to "activate" some camera, i.e. view through it?
Suppose, I have some camera in the scene and I want to view scene throug this camera. How to do this?
First I read this should be done by Ctrl Numpad 0. It worked ...
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Multi Cams at the same time in the same Scene
I really would like to set a Scene on which I have 2 or more Views that represent 2 or more Cameras at the same time but I'm not able to reach my targert.
Each time that I select a different cam, all ...
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How to white out screen with a flare
I am trying to do a short video intro. The camera will follow a straight path through a circle, then I want the screen to flash completely white.
I have the camera set up to follow the path. Now how ...
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Camera movement shows in viewport but not in render animation
I'm trying to render my animation, but the camera movement doesn't show when clicking on Render Animation. The camera stays still ignoring the keyframes.
I've unchecked the sequencer in post-...
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Cycles render is blank and camera object changes
I have this problem where my scene render is blank, and I think I've figured out why, but it's weird.
I set my scene camera to the actual camera object:
But when I press f12 the render is blank. Not ...
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How to animate cuts between shots?
I'm having a surprising amount of difficulty finding an answer to a rather simple question...
I've worked out how to animate things in Blender. But I'm having trouble putting cuts into the animation.
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How to set frame range independently for each camera
blend file which contains multiple camera. Each of this camera will render its own specific frame range. How can i do this without each time have to edit the global frame range ?
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How to execute multiple animation node trees over time in a single scene?
I'm trying to work out how to execute two seperate node trees (with different falloff settings) within the same scene on the same objects for different camera angles... is it possible to start and ...
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How to Take different shot's with one camera in different places
I was watching this tutorial online, and i realized that it was using blender 2.79, and what the person did was switching between shots with one camera while animating the camera. However, in blender ...
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Darkening/Lightening camera change effect
How can I make the view darken to black before changing the camera and then fade back again after the view has changed - as in the linked video.
https://youtu.be/R70HeSY2q-U
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Render doesn't match camera
i'm new to blender, but I was messing around with simple deformers and made this scene. When I want to render the image, the camera seems zoomed in. Can't find anyone with similair problems..
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Making own layout, Toggling through multiple cameras in a scene
I need to make a layout so I can see individual parts of my scene all at once for editing purposes.
Sort of like my own quad-view; therefore it's not animated and is unlike the solution in "...
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Why is the camera drifting when following a path and tracking an object?
Is it possible to put a camera on a path and maintain it at a 1:1 ratio? what I mean by this, is if you look at the image below, it sort of drifts when rotating around..
I have it tracking an empty ...
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How to quickly select the 3D viewpoint among Front, Top, Left, etc., and customized ones?
I thought the 3D-view viewpoint could be set equally according to predetermined directions (six standard views: Left, Top, Right...) and also camera directions. But it doesn't seem to be the case:
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How to automatically render from several camera angles? [duplicate]
I've got an animation that I want to render from loads of camera angles. How can I write a script to automatically loop through all the cameras and render the scene from each perspective?
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How do I make the camera snap to position
I want to be able to have the camera move somewhere instantly, is this possible?
Like when the camera jumps to a different angle in a different shot.
P.S I'm very new to animating, so, please be ...
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Camera Align to View - CTRL-ALT-0 - does some really weird stuff
When I click on the Camera button, something really funky happens. Also, at random points, the hood from my lamp will disappear. I have even deleted the camera and added a new one and I can't make the ...
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How to choose a 1 camera out of 2 cameras in the scene to align using CTRL + ALT + 0?
I have a simple problem. I have 2 cameras in the scene and I would like to align only of them when I press CTRL + ALT + 0.
At the moment, one of the camera is set and I want the new camera to align ...
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