Questions tagged [camera]

The camera is an object which defines a point of view in 3D space for the context of rendering. The camera also has settings for depth of field (DoF) and other effects/settings real cameras have.

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doom style directional sprite material

I am attempting to create a Doom style 8-directional sprite material for a plane that changes based on viewing angle. I was following a 6 years old question from here: How do I change between ...
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Why does my camera start rotating randomly when following a path?

I have a camera that follows a bezier curve with a Follow Path constraint, with a Track To constraint that follows an object (named "Viewer") moving on another bezier curve with another Follow Path ...
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Confusing results when trying to align viewport to camera with Python

I have a scene with a 40mm camera, for a reference I put some boxes that visually touch camera region borders. Viewport is close to 16:9 — just like the scene format. Then I disable the camera view ...
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Camera Solving, the trackers in 3D space are inverted

I have a shot I'm tracking and the problem is that after I hit Setup Tracking Scene, I check the points in the 3D viewport and the trackers that are supposed to be in the distant background are ...
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How to keep my cameras preset rotation when tracking an object

I have a camera following a bezier circle and tracking a stationary empty object. I have the camera angle and rotation set specifically to begin with but when I choose the object to track to with ...
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How do I match an orthographic type camera to an orthographic image?

There's a program called fSpy in which you can draw lines on an image, and it will in turn give you a camera position and rotation, however it doesn't seem to work with orthographic images. I have an ...
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camera view as a texture?

Is there any way i can use the camera view as a texture in realtime? i know you could do this in the blender game editor before using python, but now i don't know if there is a way i can use the ...
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Getting blender camera fov or focal length from the unity3d camera fov

I'm trying to match the fov of blender camera with unity 3d camera fov. Basically i want to calculate blender's camera FOV or focal length, given the fov of unity3d camera. Please help.
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Check when Active Camera has changed

Is there is a way to check when the Active camera has been changed? I'd like to change some Scene settings depending on the camera you look through, and I'm looking for a way to know when a new camera ...
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How to measure blender camera Dynamic range

I watched many youtube videos about Filmic, but in blender 3.0 it is a little bit different. Are those videos outdated or I get them wrong?? My testing is a grid and double up the light watt each grid ...
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Camera Distorts Mesh

Seeking help on below. I was trying to set up my camera to prepare for rendering but whenever I clicked on CTRL+ALT+0, it distorts my mesh. I have tried to: Delete the camera and added a new one I ...
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How do I setup my camera to render the same as my viewport?

When I look through my camera view (or render a frame) it comes out with my wireframe lines being fuzzy and broken up (see below). While I am trying to fix this specific issue, my real question is ...
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Is there a way to lock camera roll as it tracks along a path?

I am still quite new to Blender. I have tried searching the official Blender manual and watched several YouTube tutorials and searched for various related strings on the WWW but I haven't found ...
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Only Camera not moving but other objects does [closed]

I can't move the camera but I'm able to move oder (I can't send the video to show the issue)
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Appropriate value of convergence plane distance in a 360° stereoscopic VR video

How to determine the appropriate value convergence plane distance? I'm working on a panoramic stereoscopic video for Meta Quest 2. I use the stereo camera in off-axis mode. With the Spherical Stereo ...
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Blender Camera Settings Millimeters/Field of View conversion

I have a question concerning the camera setting. You can choose between tweaking the field of view or the mm settings. I use a 50 mm objective on my canon 6d. The field of view for this lense is at a ...
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Can't rotate or move view with mouse wheel

i don't know if i pressed something or not but for some reason i couldn't move using my mouse wheel. i can zoom in and out using the wheel but i can't rotate or move view. I tried looking at similar ...
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Object disappearing when rotating camera in Blender 4 [duplicate]

I have installed Blender 4 and after opening my previous file from v3 I got strange behavior about disappearing. Please, any idea how to fix this? In those two images I just slightly rotated camera. ...
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Blender Camera Clipping Reversal Issues with Freestyle/LineArt Rendering

I've been working on a project in Blender where I attempted to achieve a specific visual effect by intentionally reversing the camera's Clipping Start and Clipping End settings. In particular, I set ...
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Where do I find a button "Lock Layers and Used Camera to Scene" in Blender 2.92.0?

Where do I find a button "Lock Layers and Used Camera to Scene" (the lock icon in a 3D viewport) in Blender 2.92.0? Rendered Picture is not what active camera shows
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Adding a camera in front of an object based on xyz rotation (Euler to Spherical conversion)

About the script: I would like to add a camera in front of a selected object. The front of the object is based on a calculation using a pre-defined polarangle, azimuthal angle and distance. The ...
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Is there a separate clipping range for the viewport versus the camera (camera clipping distance acts different)? [duplicate]

blender denizens, I have a puzzle for you: With "View" "Clip" "End" set to 5000m (start at .1), I'm getting clipping of an object in camera view (at approx. 200m or so). ...
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My sun light isn't rendering in EEVEE. how do I fix?

[ The top image is the viewport view, that's how it should look. The bottom image is the rendered view :/ I am not new to Blender, yet I have no clue what's going on. "Scene Lights" are ...
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How to make the camera follow the plane in my blender game?

I made a basic plane model and parented the camera to it, but when i fly the plane, the camera follows its location but rotates by itself... Here is a link to download the game: https://www.dropbox....
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How to make the some strands of anime/layered(?) hair track camera?

Like the pictur (can be by bones) vDHzL.png
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How to move a camera around an object

I want to move the camera by 15 degrees based on the x, y, and z axes like in the picture, what should I do? The camera and the object are connected by empty, and I want to move around the hemisphere ...
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Strange shadow on my object [duplicate]

I am beginner in the blender and i have a problem with a strange shadows on my objects. It is hard to explain,so lets discuss an example. I have a group of the flat (or almost flat) buildings (please ...
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Camera with "track to" empty goes insanely fast

It's hard to see with the GIF but the camera stutter. I've tried to apply the scale on both empty and camera, nothing changed... However if you have more ideas on how to track the camera in a smooth ...
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How to calculate ortho_scale of a viewport?

There is an addon that allows you to save the current viewport to the camera. But the addon only works in perspective mode. For orthographic mode, you need to calculate the ortho_scale of the viewport ...
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Why can i not see the camera rectangle?

I am new to blender and i am watching a tutorial for the basics, but in the tutorial, when he uses the camera there is a rectangle apparent in the image (see attached photos) but for mine i do not ...
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When moving Camera a keyframe is set on every object [closed]

I made my second animation and wanted to animate the camera. I added an empty object that the camera can track. When I move the camera to point a (set a keyframe) and move it to point B (set a ...
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Exclude non-visible points from bake

I'm trying to bake the window coordinates onto an object's texture. It works fine, but the coordinates are baked on all pixels of the texture, even the ones which aren't visible from the camera. Is ...
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Render Pass Manager

Coming from Max we have State Sets and Render Pass Managers such as Prism : http://www.grovergol.com/?page_id=338 This allows you to create a list of Cameras to render from and combinations of object ...
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Evee DoF actual Render different to rendered camera view?

I'm new to Blender and was wondering can anyone shed some light on the following and why this would be happening please? (apologies in advance for any improper terminology) So, I've a rotating sphere ...
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I need help on not seeing the outside of my background scene in object

I am creating an ocean underwater scene. I've created a plane and extending the plane and subdivide it but when I use my camera to go underwater, when I go in Wireframe, Solid and even Cycles mode I ...
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Incorrect image when switching from one camera to another on a marker?

Does someone know why I get a incorrect image when switching from one camera to another on a marker? I use Blender 3.4. At frame 108 I switch from camera 'Cam Shot A' to 'Cam Shot B'. If I make a ...
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Add Background Movie Clip with Python

I'll have to rotoscope some movie clips with different resolution and frame rate. I'm trying to write a script to help, but I did'nt manage to add the film in the Background Images properties of the ...
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Track to object's surface

I have a camera which is following a path. This path is surrounding a "large" u-shaped object (it's not a large object, but the camera is following it closely. Think of somebody scanning a ...
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Create a skewed (non-physical) camera with a custom matrix

I'm creating a stylized world where the vertical dimension is distorted relative to the forward dimension. Right now in script, I'm doing : ...
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How can I make a perspective camera look like orthographic camera?

I'm using an addon that uses the camera view to imitate 2d outlines. While messing around with camera settings, I found ortho camera looks better than perspective for imitating 2d drawings. However ...
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Using AE2blend to import camera track from After Effects

I have recorded a very simple (I thought) bit of footage that I want to track and set as a floor plane. I used After Effects to generate a 3D camera track, which looks like it works: I installed ...
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Piping Blender Camera to Python OpenCV webcam

I have a Python OpenCV computer vision script that runs object detection on videos and webcams. Currently, I'm simulating a scene in Blender, rendering to an mp4 and then opening it separately in ...
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Blender 2.8 and Google Earth Studio (GES) 3D camera integration/import

I read lots of threads about Blender 2.8 and GES camera integration and coordinate system issues, however I can not find anything useful in terms simple workflow. Is there a way to import 3D camera ...
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Using view-camera-set active object as camera is zooming in to the object as i am new can someone explain why its hapening

Using view-camera-set active object as camera is zooming in to the object as i am new can someone explain why its happening. Kindly check this video.
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can't see mesh in camera view

First I have a huge scene Then I addea a camera and I chose that given view and pressed clt+Alt+numpad 0 then it shows like this I tried increasing decreasing focal length,size of camera,shift+f to ...
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How to set texture with camera view

With add image as plane i have add an image and in the texture coordinates i have set to camera. I want my image to be set in camera. In the view port it look set but when preview render the image ...
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Why won't this GP lineart modifier show up?

File I'm working with here. I'm trying to use a Grease Pencil lineart modifier on an object in a scene. This should be pretty straightforward, and indeed if I append the object (Mug) into another file ...
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Matching Camera view and User perspective view - Field of view [closed]

I have research on internet about this issue and so far, no one comes up with the right answer. I guess this problem happens to people that use other 3D modelling programs were there is no distinction ...
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Is there any way to turn coordinates into curve?

I recorded fly camera movement, so I got keyframes with coordinates. Is there any way to turn the camera coordinates in keyframes into curve?
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All geometry looks glitchy in viewport in Blender 2.8

I'm using Blender 2.8 (release, not beta) for my new project and after adding some objects (just as placeholders, no complex geometry) all geometry around edges looks strange. This however doesn't ...

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