I am trying to do a over head view of a scene.

I am planning on using it for a game.

I am wondering if there is anyway to do a orthographic render? I want to create a map for my game so a top down orthographic view is what I need.

Thank you for your time.

In the PLE version I play around with in the side bar at the camera slot  I would select top camera from the arrow drop down menu.. ...

I am using the top down view but I need a flat view.

Can I do any adjustments with the camra that might allow something close to this.

Two possibilities:

1. Render the top view by right clicking the icon to render the view and then do a screen grab to capture the render.  You can then piece several of these renders together - this is a true orthographic view.

2. Select the Top camera.  Move it so its very high above the scene and then set its focal to a high number which will flatten the depth of field.

Neither of these is a 100% perfect solution but both can be made to work if you play with them a bit.

seems top view is a orthographic view after all. some trees on a slope made me think otherwise.

Just did a test with a tall box with red sides while white on top and bottom. Put to the bottom of the render view and did a 2880 by 2880 render. No red could be seen. so it seems to be orthographic.

Thanks for the help anyway. :D

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I confirm that apparently the top camera is orthographic (also in Pro). I created two cubes, one red and a slightly less large (in X,Y) green. I raised just a tiny bit the green cube and rendered with the  light coming from the top. As expected from an orthographic projection, I got a green square sorrounded by a tiny red border, of equal width on all sides.

This means that Vue can be used as a texture generation program: create the texture you want and apply it to the ground, put the sun right above and render appropriately!

Bye!!!