The UI

Overview Panel (Shift + C)

The Overview Panel is the core of the addon. The menu lists all cameras in your scene. It provides a quick overview of the most important settings and an easy way to adjusting them. Additionally, you can assign camera-specific resolution, render slots, and world materials, exceeding the posibilities of the default Blender.

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The Overview panel contains all cameras and most relevant camera settings in your scene.

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  1. Toggle the active camera
  2. Rename cameras
  3. Toggle visibility, selection, and locking of cameras
  4. Adjust specific settings like focal length and clipping planes per camera
  5. Change output resolution per camera
  6. Copy camera resolution from the assigned background image
  7. Set the world material (HDRI) per camera to adjust the lighting
  8. Set exposure value per camera
  9. Move camera to the specified camera collection
  10. Assing individual render slots per camera
  11. Render any camera directly from this menu
  12. Set and assign to Camera Collection
  13. Settings: Automatically save renders, use camera name for the file name and set the output folder

Scene Properties

The Scene Properties panel contains an addional, compacter version of the camera overview panel. It allows you to rename cameras, change their visibility and locking states and assign them to the specified camera collection quickly.

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Active Camera Pie (Alt + C)

This pie menu is intended to tweak the currently active camera. It is split into 4 areas.

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  • Background Image and Render Settings: Assign a render slot and render directly from the pie menu. Further, this area contains functionalities to adjust the visibility of background images and toggle them on/off quickly.
  • Camera Settings: Tweak camera-specific values like focal length, exposure, clipping planes, and depth of field. NEW: Dolly Zoom and Toggle to Camera view
  • Viewport Settings: Quickly show and hide composition guides, UI elements and darken the area outside the final frame.
  • Quick Access Tools: Quickly toggle between cameras, lock/unlock, select or lock the current camera to view.

Toggle Cameras (Ctrl + Shift + Left/Right Arrow)

Ctrl + Shift + Left/Right Arrow allows you to quickly toggle between the scene cameras. All camera-specific settings like resolution and world material will automatically be applied. The hotkeys can be changed in the addon preferences.

Warning

All camera-specific settings - provided by this addon - like world material, exposure, camera resolution and render slot will not be updated when changing the active camera in the scene properties manually. Use the hotkeys and buttons provided by the addon to switch the cameras.

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Camera toggle using hotkeys: The resolution is stored for each camera. The cameras can be toggled both from the viewport - as seen here - or while looking through the camera.

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Camera toggle using the scene properties panel

Preferences

The preferences provide easy customization for the hotkeys. Easily adjust them to your personal needs. You can also use the auto-updater to automatically update your addon without downloading the zip files from the store pages.

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