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How to save camera settings

BurpeeBurpee Posts: 152
edited December 1969 in Daz Studio Discussion

I thought that I could simply adjust my view how I wanted it in my scene and then choose File/Save As/Camera and give it a name. All of the views and POVs that I save do not work. Is there a trick to it?

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  • BurpeeBurpee Posts: 152
    edited December 1969

    I should clarify....I can save a camera and it will move the camera when I choose my selected preset BUT my view doesn't change. I can see the camera move by my view is still way back from where I want to be. DS will use the Poser camera presets and move around the POV but I want to fine tune them for DS and I can't get them to work properly when I save.

  • JaderailJaderail Posts: 0
    edited December 2013

    A Camera Preset only saves the Location of the camera at the time saved and its settings. So if loaded back into the same scene you get the same view and camera settings when you View through that camera. It does not save all the Settings in your Viewport such as center on item so it can rotate around a item. That is only done in the Viewport and by the camera controls. The Camera Preset also does not save your other views but only the one camera active at the time of save or the one you select from the scene tab.

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,260
    edited December 1969

    A camera preset should save all cameras by default, but it won't save the Perspective or other views.

  • BejaymacBejaymac Posts: 1,897
    edited December 1969

    Poser doesn't have a "modern" viewport system, the Main_Camera is just that, a camera with all of it's controls available to you. DS uses the same or similar system that most modeling programs use, as a result the "viewport cameras" are part of the software rather than part of the scene, so there is nothing there for you to save as a preset.

    With a camera preset you can save all of the cameras in the scene or just the selected cameras, but for that preset to change the view you need to have been "looking" through that camera when you saved the preset, and you do that by selecting the camera (or light) in the viewports dropdown menu, the one that normally says "Perspective View".

  • macleanmaclean Posts: 2,438
    edited December 1969

    This may help.

    http://digilander.libero.it/maclean/DStutorial.htm

    mac

  • BurpeeBurpee Posts: 152
    edited December 1969

    Hi all, I must have forgotten to check the 'subscribe' button. Didn't know I had answers. Thank you so much!! This is most helpful and it makes much sense. Thanks again.

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