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Damien Picard authored
This rig is mostly useful for 2D shots, when the camera is static and the action happens in front of it (like a theatre stage). In a 2D production (and some shots in 3D as well), you sometimes need to rotate the camera while zooming, effectively "cropping" the field, just as you would using a rostrum camera. This is tedious and error-prone if animating built-in basic transforms, so this rig implements a more intuitive way to do that, by just animating the two lower corners of the camera's field. Also improved other stuff in the add-on: - add the GPL license block to create_widgets.py; - rename "arm[ature]" to "rig" in some functions, for consistency and to avoid confusion with the crane's arm; - changes to the UI panel: - remove the boxes, - put focal length at the top of the panel, - group related properties using aligned columns, - change the Make Camera Active operator's poll method, so that it is always visible in the UI, but greyed out when the camera is already active.
Damien Picard authoredThis rig is mostly useful for 2D shots, when the camera is static and the action happens in front of it (like a theatre stage). In a 2D production (and some shots in 3D as well), you sometimes need to rotate the camera while zooming, effectively "cropping" the field, just as you would using a rostrum camera. This is tedious and error-prone if animating built-in basic transforms, so this rig implements a more intuitive way to do that, by just animating the two lower corners of the camera's field. Also improved other stuff in the add-on: - add the GPL license block to create_widgets.py; - rename "arm[ature]" to "rig" in some functions, for consistency and to avoid confusion with the crane's arm; - changes to the UI panel: - remove the boxes, - put focal length at the top of the panel, - group related properties using aligned columns, - change the Make Camera Active operator's poll method, so that it is always visible in the UI, but greyed out when the camera is already active.