why is the scene going dark when I move the camera?

intrinsicanomaly_262dc77de2

I've been using Daz for a few months now, and never had this problem before. Suddenly, when I try to zoom in close up on some characters, as soon as I get pretty close they get darker and darker, as though a shadow is falling on them when I move in the camera. I have the camera set to invisible. 

Umi no Senshi no Ishi

Could your camera, while zooming, be intersecting a scene element?

Richard Haseltine

The "headlamp" is, by default, offset slightly from the camera - if you zoom in really close it may actually miss the target object. If you are using a real camera, rather than Perspective View, you can adjust the offset in the parameters pane - alternatively use real lights.

Petercat

Richard Haseltine said:

The "headlamp" is, by default, offset slightly from the camera - if you zoom in really close it may actually miss the target object. If you are using a real camera, rather than Perspective View, you can adjust the offset in the parameters pane - alternatively use real lights.

I had this happen in one outdoor scene. The only light was the sun, no camera light. I was trying to zoom in on a character's hand to pose the fingers, but the closer I zoomed the darker the scene got. By the time I got to about one (effective) meter from the hand, the entire scene was too dark to see anything.
I saved the scene , quit Studio, and reloaded it and the problem went away. But what could have caused this?

intrinsicanomaly_262dc77de2

Yeah I quit and reloaded and it stopped happening. Weird.

fred9803

This works for me - change your camera or create a new one so you don't lose you rendering camera view, select the finger/hand and zoom in using the little square thing top right of your screen (pict).

You should be able to get real close without the darkness thing happening. After you made your adjustments, switch back to your original canera.

Petercat

fred9803 said:

This works for me - change your camera or create a new one so you don't lose you rendering camera view, select the finger/hand and zoom in using the little square thing top right of your screen (pict).

You should be able to get real close without the darkness thing happening. After you made your adjustments, switch back to your original canera.

I've seen that often the zoom in box will not zoom in very close, for example, if I select a character's head, clicking on the square thing will take the viewpoint so far away that it shows the entire figure and the characters around it. Although the viewpoint will still rotate around the chosen head.
It's a bit frustrating at  times.

brvsn

Petercat said:

I've seen that often the zoom in box will not zoom in very close, for example, if I select a character's head, clicking on the square thing will take the viewpoint so far away that it shows the entire figure and the characters around it. Although the viewpoint will still rotate around the chosen head.
It's a bit frustrating at  times.

I may be wrong but from what I noticed this happens when you have a large scene or objects / actors scattered all around.. it's like the zoom is still relative to the full scene, somehow.. I don't know how to explain

fred9803

Petercat said:

I've seen that often the zoom in box will not zoom in very close, for example, if I select a character's head, clicking on the square thing will take the viewpoint so far away that it shows the entire figure and the characters around it. Although the viewpoint will still rotate around the chosen head.
It's a bit frustrating at  times.

You need to select the body part with the Active Pose Tool and not for instance the Node Selection Tool or Surface Selection tool. If that's what you're doing.