This feature is great but without ability to orbit camera without leaving camera view it has limited functionality. And no, I don't use fly mode, because I get airplane sickness. Let's imagine that real life cameraman has to leave his cam and walk around some scene to see it from a different angle. When he finds perfect shot he presses CTRL+0 to tell his helper to bring him his camera...
On 10 May 2011 05:14, Campbell Barton <ideasma...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 12:58 AM, Bassam Kurdali > <bkurd...@freefactory.org> wrote: >> >> >> On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 00:28 +0000, Campbell Barton wrote: >>> Agree they are unrelated (except the case where Camera images could be >>> made to force foreground and overlay some reference). >> Not completely but it *is* close: images will suffer due to scaling >> (especially if you don't intend on making a new one for each aspect >> ratio) while procedural guides can be drawn at one pixel width >> regardless of the resolution/aspect ratio- and now you'll have an added >> dependency for your files. But it's a poor-man's solution for users who >> don't want to apply a simple patch. >>> I only mentioned it because the topic came up on this thread. >>> >>> There is still a case for having this feature, Michael and I just >>> disagree on how it should be done, in fact Ton also disagrees :), he >>> suggests camera BG images to have a FG option. >> Well, that's ok :) I'm not personally in a rush, and people who need >> this right now can patch, graphicall, hack their own - it's not like >> this is going to result in any major compatibility issues. I hacked my >> own a while ago, no problems. >>> >>> Bassam, can you give an example screenshot of how you use this? >> sure: >> http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=12124 >> I use it to compose shots! as you can see, the one pixel dotted line is >> fairly unobtrusive, and it works 'right' regardless of focal >> length/aspect ratio. In this image even though she's coming down the >> escalator towards us, her eyes are always on the top third line of the >> screen. Other images would have a center of interest on one or more of >> the thirds intersections, etc. Pretty standard stuff really. >>> >>> Also, anyone can still work on adding camera overlay presets, its a >>> good beginner task. >> Yup, this is a very easy hack! though, not so easy to get it approved I >> guess ;) > > Composition guide presets committed r36590. see the camera display panel. > Maybe I missed some useful preset, easy to add others. > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > Bf-committers@blender.org > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers