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Setting up a free camera

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Setting up a free camera

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- [Instructor] We've seen how to create a physical camera that has a target. Now, let's talk about free cameras. We can have a standard camera without a target, or a physical camera without a target, but the creation method is different for each one of those. Let's look at the standard camera. Go to the Create panel, to cameras, and we can create a free standard camera. Click on that button, and you want to click in the front or side view, not in the top view, because the camera is going to be created looking into the current viewport. So, I'm just going to click once in the front viewport, and that standard camera is created. Right click to exit creation mode, and we can load that camera into a viewport. This one over here. So, where it says physical camera, we can choose a different camera. Camera 001, that's a standard camera. Now we're looking through that camera's lens. We can grab the move tool, and go up to the top view, which is our plan, and position that camera. We also can…

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