MB Tutorial Part 66: Camera View Toolbar Video Lecture | A Complete Course: Motion Builder - Professional Skills

in this video we're going to take a look
at the camera view toolbar which is new
to MotionBuilder 6 this is a great way
to control your camera without having to
use any keys on the keyboard as well as
access several viewer options without
having to dig into any drop down menus
now it exists here at the top of the
viewer window so let's take a look at
some what some of these buttons do in
order to do this let me bring in an
object that we can rotate around of
course we could just use the grid but
throwing in a cube is so much more
exciting and I'll just bring this here
into the middle of the window now of
course on the left we have the view and
display menus which have always been
there first off on our list we have the
orbit button located here and what this
is going to allow you to do if you use
the left mouse button is orbit around
your object pretty much as you would
expect to in any 3d application so we're
using our center of interest and simply
rotating around it if instead we use the
right mouse button we are panning and
tilting our camera which is kind of like
turning your head or rotating the camera
in a security camera style fashion like
so next to this we have the traveling
button this is going to allow you to
travel the camera left right up and down
notice no forward motion in the camera
we're simply sliding or to travel with
interest if you use the right mouse
button so I'm sliding the camera left
right up and down but we keep looking at
our center of interest now just
something I'd like to point out i'm
using motionbuilder 61 and at the time
of this recording the tool tip for this
button is reversed it says traveling
with interest is the left mouse and
traveling is with our flip those in your
head and you'll be good to go next we
have the dolly button which allows us to
dolly the camera in and out if we use
left Mouse we're just simply doing a
regular dolly so we slide in which slide
out very easy if we use the right mouse
button instead we are dollying with
interest which means that we can slide
the camera left and right while we dolly
so very cool next to this we have zoom
zoom is often confused with dolly it's a
completely different thing though
in this regard what we're going to be
doing is actually changing the field of
view of the camera so as we zoom out you
can see the view getting heavily skewed
the cameras location is not changing you
can even see the manipulator changing
shape here and as we zoom in we start to
lose all of our depth the default is 40
degrees so get somewhere around 40 and
we'll call it quits next to this of
course we have the role button' which is
going to allow us to roll the camera if
we use the left mouse button we can
freely roll to a barrel roll kind of
disorienting to watch and the right
mouse button is going to allow us to
roll in increments of 15 degrees which
is an easy way to reset the roll back to
zero if you if you should get it
slightly offset and you need to set
anything back so those are the camera
controls very easy to use if you have
one hand tied up with a cup of coffee or
or with anything else and you can't get
down to your your keyboard hotkey for
controlling the camera you do have these
buttons across the top of the screen
very handy or easy to use and next to
this down here on the end we have the
trajectories button now the trajectories
button has it's very own video so I
won't spend too much time on it next to
this we have the 2d magnifier and what
this is going to do is allow us to
magnify parts of our scene without
actually moving the camera at all you'll
notice as soon as we activate the 2d
magnifier our camera controls over here
change we have the ability to travel
still but notice we have this yellow
dashed framed area this is basically
taking our current view and moving
around it as if it were a
two-dimensional picture our zoom tool is
going to be the same way it's just going
to allow us to zoom into and out of our
current view again we are not moving the
camera at all as soon as we switch off
the 2d magnifier we go right back to our
cameras original location it's a great
way to kind of scout out a particular
shot do you want to zoom in and make
sure that maybe one aspect of your scene
is visible while another is invisible or
really anything at all next to this we
have selective redraw and what this is
going to do is take your viewer and make
sure that only your viewer is updating
so your viewer window will update as you
play but no other window
operations will update so if you have a
very heavy scene maybe it's starting to
slow motion builder down a little bit
you can switch this on and it'll speed
things back up so that in a nutshell is
going to be the camera view toolbar this
is a relatively short video I hope you
enjoyed it thanks a lot