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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How can I get better results when doing camera motion tracking?
Whenever I do camera tracking in Blender the reconstruction is always zooming out or not on the axis. I have a great quality camera, but the end results of the camera tracking always has the model ...
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How do I increase the render distance?
I have created a simple model here
When rendering it the end of it is cut off
How can I get the camera to render a longer distance?
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How can I make a camera the active one?
I have multiple cameras in a scene. What I want to do is to change which one is active. This way I can view the scene from different angles. How would I do this?
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How to make a cycles light emisson object invisible to the camera?
In my scene it is required to position the lights close to the main object like this:
How I can make the light source invisible to the camera?
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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?
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I accidentally set an object as camera, how do I undo this?
I have a problem with rendering in cycles.
In blender render my object is rendering fine, but in cycles when I pushed F12 I got only this:
One more thing: when I click 0 on keyboard I'm not in camera ...
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Some Data Failed to Reconstruct, Motion Tracking
I added tracks and stuff, but then when I tried to solve motion track, there was a error that said:
Some Data Failed to Reconstruct
and it also said to look into the console for details, which I did....
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Movie Clip On Plane
In blender cycles render engine, how do I put a movie clip on a plane so it displays the video? I want the video to be on the plane if there is a way.
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Rendered aspect ratio different from the viewport's camera view
Why would there be a difference in aspect ratio between a rendered image, and the camera perspective in the viewport? My render is getting squashed to fit a different aspect ratio.
Here is a scene ...
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Background image shows in front of 3D objects, not behind them.
I've done a quick 3D track in blender and I'm trying to render my output, but the plate I used to track is showing up over my 3d objects.
I want to render the objects in the scene with an alpha ...
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How to find all objects in the Camera's view with Python?
I have a scene with a many objects and one camera.
I would like to select the objects that the camera sees, even partially.
Is there a way to do that in Python that accounts for the objects bounds?
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Render just part of a final image from Cycles?
I'm using an older Nvidia chip that hates running viewport renders, and I need to check if changes to the materials on a few objects not far from the center of my scene are (I'm rendering a floorplan ...
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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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3x4 camera matrix from blender camera
In computer vision, the transformation from 3D world coordinates to pixel coordinates is often represented by a 3x4 (3 rows by 4 cols) matrix P as detailed below. Given a camera in Blender, I need ...
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How to pick good keyframes for motion tracking?
What are good practices for picking good keyframes when motion tracking? How are these frames used?
What is an "ideal" keyframe?