Forum: Poser Technical


Subject: Adding extra named cameras to Poser!

dke opened this issue on Jul 21, 2002 ยท 15 posts


dke posted Sun, 21 July 2002 at 6:53 PM

Well I hope this isn't old news, but... I've alwasy wanted to have more named cameras to pick from, and finally figured out how to get them. Usually when I'm about half way through a scene I've used up the Main, Aux and Pose cameras for specific viewpoints, all the UI dots have something going on, and I have about 23 different saved camera settings - all of which I can never remember which is which so cringe every time I click on some camera-related thing :) So stared messing with pz3 files and realized you could add extra named cameras to them. Seems to work well if you "Open" a pz3 with the extra cameras defined, but I can't for the life of me get it to work properly for importing a pz3 - or as a Pose/pz2, cm2, or any of the other possible places. In those cases you end up with only the Focal and Hither channels but nothing else. If you start your scene by loading the extra cameras through a pz3 they seem to work fine though. They save to the cameras folder fine, and seem to work with animations, and you can select the different new ones without them stepping on each other. Then I tried adding them to the preferredState.pz3 so every 'new' scene would start out with the extra cameras, and that seems to be working fine. Only played with it a bit so far and just copied the parms from the Main camera, but I'm sure it would work for adding orthographic or dolly cameras as well. The only hitch (so far) seems to be that you can't add them after you've started the scene, and they don't show up in the main SelectCamera drop-list. They do show up in the BodyParts->Cameras section at the bottom of the image view though. Hopefully this isn't old news. Did search the forum to check first and didn't see any mention so... :) I posted a sample pz3 with three new/extra cameras up on my web site if anyone wants official proof :) It's on the download page in the Hi-Res section, so just follow the links from the attached url.