Other ways to look through a camera

[rich_lord]

Is there any other ways to look through a camera? Other than the camera menu in the top right of the view port? My menu contains a ton of cameras.

The ideal thing would be to select a node and press a hot key or something.

Thanks!

Edited May 10, 2017 by rich_lord

[graham]

It's possible to drag cameras and lights onto the viewport and it will cause the viewer to look through them.

It's also possible to write a shelf tool type thing and assign a hotkey to it to cause the active viewer to look through a selected camera/light.

[rich_lord]

Dragging the camera into the view port is great and intuitive. Thanks Graham!

[konstantin magnus]

A simple shelf tool script could go like this:

nodes = hou.selectedNodes()

path = nodes[0].path()

hou.ui.paneTabOfType(hou.paneTabType.SceneViewer).curViewport().setCamera(hou.node(path))

[rich_lord]

Thanks konstantin. That's really useful. I've not explored scripting yet.

[martinkindl83]

13 hours ago, graham said:

It's possible to drag cameras and lights onto the viewport and it will cause the viewer to look through them.

It's also possible to write a shelf tool type thing and assign a hotkey to it to cause the active viewer to look through a selected camera/light.

pretty good, didn't know about that one