Shift-tilt camera question (Archi Edition)

[Ernest Burden]

Is this camera not a true shift-tilt?

It is a true shift-tilt camera. That's why I use C4D.

All you have to do is select the camera as an object and go to the object panel. It helps to have the coords portion displayed. You want to verify thet your camara is not rotated upwardly by checking the middle of the R (rotation) setting to be 0.0 (the P for pitch--I know, its not very architectural, but live with it). Below the coords you will find the view angle in focal length and angle-of-view, allowing you to type in an exact zoom of your choice. Then, below that you find the film offsets, X and Y. That's where the quality come in! Settings above or below zero pan the filmplane left, right up or down--a proper, intuitive tilt-shift control.

Oh, and you will find that all four of the external render engines for C4D (Maxwell, FinalRender2, Fry and vray) respect the shifted camera 100%. If you render with one of them it will match pixel-for-pixel with a native Cinema render.

Can't beat it! Happy architectural rendering.

[3dj]

Damn! I didn't know there was a tilt shift cam in C4d! Is it only in the Architecture version? I do alot of product renderings, and I always need to imitate a tilt shift. We just bought a 90mm Canon TS and an EOS 5D, it would be great if I could match that set up in C4d.

-Jim

[lllab]

the siftcamera is in base packege, it is there since at least 2 yeasr:-)

very nice i use it almost in all renderings

cheers
stefan

[3dj]

really? I will have to take a look! That's great!

thanks.
-Jim

[3dj]

OOOOHHHH found it! That's sweet! Can't wait to use it! C4D rocks!

Thanks again!

-Jim

[STRAT]

i dont use the tilt camera anymore, i just use the film offset X and Y controls. (making sure your camera and camera target point are on the same Y level all the time)

[Ernest Burden]

i dont use the tilt camera anymore, i just use the film offset X and Y controls. (making sure your camera and camera target point are on the same Y level all the time)

Tilt camera? What do you mean?

I use the film offsets ALL the time. By the way--they can be animated, so you can frame a shot the way you like from beginning to end. It's fantastic. Even Lightscape (the heavens sing at the mere mention) couldn't do that.

Keeping the camera and target the same is one way to make sure you have a perfectly horizontal camera, but I prefer the R>P coordinate--it's one setting to keep, not two, and a zero is quicker to enter than copy/pasting the Y height from one field to another.

I wish we had a lock for that R>P setting. We probably can, and now hopefully someone will post how to do that.

[STRAT]

Tilt camera? What do you mean?



look in the content browser under Presets > Maxon > Cinema4D > Add ons > Misc

[maikukai]

Thanks guys! As always everyone has been a huge help.

[bobtronic]

I wish we had a lock for that R>P setting. We probably can, and now hopefully someone will post how to do that.

That is easy :) Just feed a constant value (zero for instance) into the pitch rotation channel via XPresso. File attached.

cheers,
Matthias

[imashination]

Made this one a year or two ago:

http://www.3dfluff.com/files/tiltcam.zip

Select it, go to the userdata controls

[jackb602]

Thanks for the tip Strat. I think I stumbled across that long ago and promptly forgot about it. After playing with both cameras, it seems that they do the exact same thing, but with a different interface. Is the TiltCam somehow different?

[Srek]

The two work in exactly the same way. Mash allowed MAXON to include his Tilt Camera in the main CINEMA 4D distribution, only the interface was altered a bit, the functionality is the same.
Cheers
Björn

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