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Camera List
The camera list at the top of the Camera tab contains all the cameras for the scene. In the camera list, the Free Camera is always available and cannot be locked or overwritten. It can always be selected and remains independent of camera animations.
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Cameras
The Camera tab controls the settings for all camera views in KeyShot Studio and allows you to set the active KeyShot Studio camera. It also allows you to save different camera views of your scene, which allows cameras to be re-used, modified, animated or used in Studios.
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Depth of Field
Depth of Field allows you to set the focus distance and the f-stop of the camera just like you would with a regular camera.
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Lens Settings
The various Lens Settings can be found in the Projects Window, under Camera tab > Lens Settings. The Lens types include:
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Navigating Your Scene
The following explains how to use your mouse to change the view of your camera. It’s important to realize that the mouse is moving the camera and not the model. In other words, when you use Left Mouse Button (LMB) to rotate, the camera is rotating around the model.
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Orthographic
An Orthographic lens uses parallel projection to view the scene: all lines parallel to each other appear parallel regardless of camera distance or position. An orthographic lens is most commonly found in CAD modelers and is not affected by perspective distortion, foreshortening, or parallax. This means that relative...
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Panoramic
The Panoramic Lens Setting (Pro feature) for Cameras allows you to render a Spherical or Cube Map image in real-time or rendered output. This feature can be used to render out your own spherical EXR images to use as environments to light KeyShot Studio scenes or to load in your VR headset image viewer.
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Perspective
The Perspective lens closely represents how a physical camera lens works.
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Position and Orientation
Default setting for defining position and orientation of the camera.
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Shift
A Shift lens is useful for recreating two-point perspective camera views. It allows you to keep a camera’s position while shifting the viewing plane to eliminate vertical distortion. Most commonly seen in architectural photography, a Shift lens can be used to remove the third (vertical) vanishing point in product ph...
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Stereo (VR)
Stereo mode (Pro feature) will display when Perspective or Panoramic is selected in Lens Settings.
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Walkthrough Mode
Walkthrough Mode allows you to move around inside your scene and see it from a “first-person” point of view.
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