Viewport FOV

[galagast]

I can't seem to find the controls to adjust viewport Focal Length/Aperture/FOV.

Although if I drop a Camera Object, I could set the values from there.
Or alternatively, I could manually adjust them by eye using Shift+RMB, with CTRL+RMB combo..

I'm curious where does one adjust those for the vanilla viewport (without creating a camera). I skimmed through the display options and could not find any relevant parameter.

[Guest tar]

You can manually set it in the .hip file with a text editor. search for 'focal'

 

Those keyboard shortcuts are for dollying, not fov.

[f1480187]

1. Create camera from current view: "New Camera"  from Camera menu at the corner of viewport.
2. Adjust camera parameters.
3. Delete the camera. It should be selected already, just press Delete.

[galagast]

@marty: Thanks marty! After looking into your suggestion, I could now use this hscript command to set the focal values:

viewtransform Build.panetab1.world.persp1 (focal) 80

 

6 hours ago, marty said:

Those keyboard shortcuts are for dollying, not fov.

Indeed! (in View Mode)  CTRL+RMB seems to adjust the Screen Window Size of the View/Camera. (Help card says Zoom Camera Lens).
And SHIFT+RMB does Dollying (at a slower rate).

 

@f1480187: Thank you f1, that is also what I was doing. On my post above, I mentioned looking for a way to to adjust FOV without creating a camera.

[mifth]

On 01.12.2016 at 12:25 PM, galagast said:

@marty: Thanks marty! After looking into your suggestion, I could now use this hscript command to set the focal values:

viewtransform Build.panetab1.world.persp1 (focal) 80

 

Indeed! (in View Mode)  CTRL+RMB seems to adjust the Screen Window Size of the View/Camera. (Help card says Zoom Camera Lens).
And SHIFT+RMB does Dollying (at a slower rate).

 

@f1480187: Thank you f1, that is also what I was doing. On my post above, I mentioned looking for a way to to adjust FOV without creating a camera.

 

Hello, I found how to use it with Python (print function is with for Pyhon3 H18+). You can use it in a shelf:

 

import soptoolutils
import toolutils

cam = toolutils.sceneViewer().curViewport().defaultCamera()

# set Focal Length +5
cam.setFocalLength(cam.focalLength() + 5)
print(cam.focalLength())

 

Edited July 29, 2020 by mifth