The Basics tab contains the options to select the camera type and to adjust camera position and scaling.
- Stereo Camera View Type box
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Select Left, Right, or Rig (for Stereo Rig).
- FBX Camera Type box
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Select whether the FBX camera is stereo or mono.
- Camera Type box
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Select whether the camera is Free, Aim, or Aim and Up.
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Free |
Static scenes and for simple animations (up, down, side-to-side, in and out), such as panning out of a scene. A Free camera
views the scene in the direction that you aim the camera. You can simply animate the camera rotation or camera tilt as though
it were on a tripod. Use the Rotation fields in conjunction with a Free camera.
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Aim |
Slightly more complex animations (along a path, for example), such as a camera that follows the erratic path of a bird. The
Aim camera ensures the camera is specifically aimed at a target object in the scene. Use the Roll and Aim fields in conjunction
with the Aim camera.
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Aim and Up |
Complex animations, such as a camera that travels along a looping roller coaster. Use the Aim and Up camera to specify which
end of the camera must face upward. Use the Roll, Aim, and Up fields in conjunction with the Aim and Up camera.
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- FOV field
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Displays the angular field of view value, measured in degrees. Use the angular field of view to adjust the width of the camera
frustum.
- Focal Length field
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Displays the focal length of the camera, measured in millimeters. Increasing the Focal Length zooms the camera in and increases
the size of objects in the camera's view. Decreasing the Focal Length zooms the camera out and decreases the size of objects
in the camera's view. The valid range is 1 to 1000. The default value is 40.
- Near Clip Plane, and Far Clip Plane fields
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Display the positions of the near and far clipping planes, in pixels, which represent the distance from the camera within
which image details are processed. The default setting for Near Clip Plane is 1 and for Far Clip Plane is 10000.
Set the Near Clip Plane and Far Clip Plane attributes to the lowest and highest respective values that produce the desired
result. If the distance between the near and far clipping planes is much larger than is required to contain all the objects
in the scene, the image quality of some objects may be poor.
See Moving the Near and Far Clipping Planes.
TipThe objects that you want to render are usually within a certain range from the camera. Setting the near and far clipping
planes just slightly beyond the limits of the objects in the scene can help improve image quality.
The ratio of far:near clipping planes determines the depth precision. Try to keep that ratio as small as possible for better
results. Since most of the depth precision is concentrated around the near clip plane, try to avoid a lot of detail on distant
objects.
- Position X, Y, and Z fields
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Displays the position of the camera, in pixels, on the horizontal, vertical, and perpendicular (X, Y, and Z) axes.
- Rotation Order box
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Select the order in which the camera is rotated, on the horizontal, vertical, and perpendicular (X, Y, and Z) axes.
- Rotation X, Y, and Z fields
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Displays the level of rotation of the camera on the horizontal, vertical, and perpendicular (X, Y, and Z) axes, in degrees.
Active when Camera Type is set to Free.
- Scale X, Y, and Z fields
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Displays the scale of the camera on the horizontal, vertical, and perpendicular (X, Y, and Z) axes, as a percentage.
- Shear X, Y, and Z fields
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Displays the shearing of the camera (diagonal shift) on the horizontal, vertical, and perpendicular (X, Y, and Z) axes, as
a percentage.
- Result Camera box
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Specify which camera is active. The active camera is the one that will be used when processing your scene. The field displays
the active camera number. A value of 0 indicates that you are viewing the scene through the default camera.
- Camera Scale field
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Displays the size of the camera relative to the scene independantly for either Left or Right camera views. For example, if
Camera Scale is set to 0.5, the camera's view covers an area half as large, but objects in the camera's view are twice as
large. If Focal Length is set to 35, the effective focal length for the camera would be 70.
- Reset button
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Resets the FBX Camera menu to its default settings.