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Create menu > Helpers > Camera Point
The CamPoint helper lets you create camera points in your scene. These points
are used by the Camera Match on page 5249 utility to match the camera with
a photographic background. The virtual camera is positioned to mimic the
position of the actual camera that was used to take the photograph.
Clicking CamPoint displays the Keyboard Entry and Camera Match Point
rollouts, which you use to create and name the camera points.
Procedures
To create a camera match point:
1
On the Create panel, click the Helpers tab.
2 Choose Camera Match from the list and click the CamPoint button in
the Object Type rollout.
The button turns yellow when it is active. You are now ready to create a
camera point.
3 Choose Create menu > Helpers > Camera Point.
4 Click in the viewport to create a CamPoint helper object. Alternatively,
you can use the keyboard to create a CamPoint object by expanding the
Keyboard Entry rollout, entering values in the fields, and then clicking
Create.
To position camera match points in your scene, do one of the following:
1 Create your camera match points using keyboard entry. Use this if you
have accurate actual measurements of the locations of the points.
2 Build geometry that matches your scene geometry, and then snap the
points to the geometry using snaps. Use this technique when you don’t
have measurements and can approximate the geometry.
3 Create your camera match points interactively, and then use Transform
Type-In to move them to the correct locations.
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