Camera question

Nosiferret

I'm new to Studio, still learning the bells and whistles it has to offer and while I have enjoyed poking around and seeing how things work one thing I am missing so far from Poser are the camera settings. Click the hand camera and there I am for ring placement stuff or the Face camera to go directly to the face, etc. Is there a way to set these cameras up to do the same thing and have it a constant thing on my UI? Or am I stuck to having to build them each new session I do? I have figured out how to Create a new camera but not how to make it a permanent resident on my UI.

Also is there a reset camera settings? That will allow me to reset the camera back to it's default position?

Also how do I get a camera to follow the figure? Which is what the Posing camera did in Poser. So if the figure sat down the camera would go down as well.

Thanks :)

Mattymanx

This is an older screen shot but its still current.

To have a camera point directly at something and not just frame would be done in the Parameters Tab, under Misc I think. I dont have access to DS atm so I dont recall.

Nosiferret

Awesome Mattymanx it gives me a place to start looking and see what kind of trouble I can get into :)

Will this also allow me to build set cameras and have them as a fixture in my UI? So I don't have rebuild them each time I start working on a new project? Or is there a save camera feature that when I start new I can call up my camera settings? I'd rather have them there but the other option is not too hateful, better than having to build them each time. :)

mjc1016

Nosiferret said:

Awesome Mattymanx it gives me a place to start looking and see what kind of trouble I can get into :)

Will this also allow me to build set cameras and have them as a fixture in my UI? So I don't have rebuild them each time I start working on a new project? Or is there a save camera feature that when I start new I can call up my camera settings? I'd rather have them there but the other option is not too hateful, better than having to build them each time. :)

Actually, you can do both.

You can save camera presets and then just click on them (probably need to ctrl-click, so you can Add instead of Replace).

Or you can set up a few cameras, save as a scene and then, replace/load that scene as your startup scene. That option is under Preferences > Scene.

Gr00vus

I've just started using Studio (4.8) over the last week or so. A thing I figured out last night (and forgive me if this is already common knowledge, but it didn't make it to this thread, so I thought maybe it'd help in this case) is that you can save camera settings as a pose in the content manager. With the folder you want to save the pose to selected in the content manager, and the camera you want to save the pose for selected in the scene inventory window, right click in the content manager folder and select "save" (or is it "save as") then choose pose. Enter the metadata it asks for in the pop up and you'll end up with a camera pose you can use on any camera. I have only been concerned with saving the camera position (i.e. the settings in the parameters part of the camera properties) so I'm not sure if it's saving all the other settings too (someone can check that and report back), but it's definitely working for that purpose at least. I have no idea if this would save any point at or parenting configuration - I kind of doubt it. But, anyway, just select the camera you want to reposition and double click on the pose to apply those settings again (in any scene you want).

I have no idea if it's cheaper resource wise to store poses vs. the whole camera, but it seems more intuitive to me to save the poses so you can reuse them rather than placing another camera in your scene when you want to get a different angle, etc.

Nosiferret

Thanks MJC and Gr00vus!