Position camera

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Sorry to ask here but I’ve trawled through previous threads on this and not found an answer, therefore this. I watched Tyson tonight (in the UK) and he showed the use of position camera.

However I’ve tried this in 2017 and can’t get it to position exactly where I want. I’ve tried it in all the views and found perspective to be the best. This doesn’t give me what I want but Tyson said the camera is 5"6" above the landing point and having set the landing point that distance below the point where I want to view I get almost what I want. I have to use lines/guidelines from the point of view to get close, is there a way I can alter the height of the camera from the landing point or a better way to position the camera?

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When you select the Position Camera tool you can immediately type the desired height from the selected landing point and press Enter. Then click at the landing point.

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@Guido

If you want precise heights, another way is to set the camera’s height and direction by “pulling a vector”.

Create a line that will serve as a height stick. Use the top vertice to snap and pull to a location the camera will point to. See the attached animated gif.

Pull_Camera_Vector

Note the height of the camera is equal to the height of the referenced line endpoint.

I hope this helps
ChrisD

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Thanks guys. Don’t you ever sleep? Nearly 11pm here.