WEBVTT 00:00.810 --> 00:05.220 Welcome to setting up a camera for rendering in this video. 00:05.310 --> 00:08.600 We're going to be learning about the camera placement there. 00:08.640 --> 00:13.930 They are a directional object so a camera has a front to it and that's the bit we look through. 00:13.950 --> 00:19.350 We're going to Overview the camera settings themselves and you can have more than one camera in the 00:19.350 --> 00:22.580 scene but only one active camera. 00:22.590 --> 00:27.270 And that's the one that you'll be rendering from the Nashi how to switch between nodes as well. 00:27.570 --> 00:30.070 So let's hop over into blender. 00:31.450 --> 00:36.470 Okay so over in blender I have opened up our chess scene that we've been working on. 00:36.480 --> 00:41.040 I'm first of all going to unhide the pieces and the camera as it was hidden over here. 00:41.290 --> 00:44.780 So I'm going to hold down control as I click the little eye in the outline. 00:45.040 --> 00:49.020 Making sure that everything beneath the hierarchy is also unhidden. 00:49.140 --> 00:52.330 We'll add our pieces in a moment but let's play with the camera. 00:52.350 --> 00:53.620 First of all where is it. 00:53.620 --> 00:55.830 So let's click on that camera. 00:56.290 --> 00:57.070 And here it is. 00:57.070 --> 01:02.350 It's tiny in our world space because our chessboards quite huge So we we've got a couple of design decisions 01:02.350 --> 01:08.660 once the board is made we can always scale it but down nothing is a factor of 10 to large at the moment. 01:08.710 --> 01:14.290 Alternatively we can play with it at this range and I'm going to play with it at this size and this 01:14.290 --> 01:20.920 scale because it's going to highlight some of the issues you may have if you are rendering certain size 01:20.980 --> 01:21.980 objects. 01:22.000 --> 01:26.890 So the first thing we're going to do is see what the camera is currently seeing as a couple of ways 01:26.890 --> 01:27.460 of doing that. 01:27.470 --> 01:34.120 But the easiest one is to go down to view and we've got an option here for camera and it's num pad zero. 01:34.120 --> 01:37.850 I don't have my number pad attached some guineas use the menu system at the moment. 01:37.950 --> 01:41.430 So when we click that that's what our camera is currently seeing. 01:41.440 --> 01:43.680 The rest of the greyed out area we cannot see. 01:43.710 --> 01:50.390 So now when moving the camera about's you can literally use the G key like you would do any other time 01:50.390 --> 01:53.180 it looks like we've got incremental snapping turned on. 01:53.210 --> 01:54.210 Yes we have. 01:54.460 --> 01:58.510 I'm just going to turn snapping off at the moment so we can move about now you can have more control 01:58.590 --> 02:01.600 obviously by constraining to the x y and z axis. 02:01.600 --> 02:07.270 Now what will happen when you're using the x y and z is it will lift it up and down globally. 02:07.270 --> 02:12.450 But sometimes it's much more intuitive to switch to a local. 02:12.490 --> 02:15.090 So if we press Z again where's it gone. 02:15.100 --> 02:17.900 Well that labels us to zoom in and out. 02:18.000 --> 02:20.310 There's something funny happening there. 02:20.650 --> 02:21.580 That's interesting. 02:21.580 --> 02:26.590 The camera seems to have a clipping range and we'll go into the camera options in a moment and play 02:26.590 --> 02:27.890 about with that as well. 02:28.030 --> 02:33.280 So we can set the camera forward and back as we can see there if we use x. 02:33.420 --> 02:36.390 Not the least bechamel Let's move it first on X.. 02:36.580 --> 02:41.920 Well that's the Global X and then we can go X on the camera itself and move it from left to right and 02:42.220 --> 02:45.510 locally y will be up and down as well. 02:45.520 --> 02:51.910 This is great using the constraints the local constraints when you want to rotate the camera so when 02:51.910 --> 02:55.210 you press are to rotate we get this kind of feeling a bit giddy. 02:55.210 --> 02:58.540 Great for those more action shots I suppose. 02:58.540 --> 02:59.750 But if we go. 02:59.750 --> 03:02.030 Z and then Z again. 03:02.560 --> 03:03.640 Sorry just said once. 03:03.640 --> 03:11.080 In this case it will pan around like this this isn't panning this is actually rotating panning is moving 03:11.080 --> 03:14.500 across the scene like this. 03:15.270 --> 03:20.220 So there's lots of things you can do in order to set up quite a dynamic scene and you can move the camera 03:20.580 --> 03:26.750 up and down and till you get to a place where you can see the whole board so I'm going to do that now 03:27.120 --> 03:32.600 and we can see most of the board in this situation and I'm just going to move it across. 03:32.740 --> 03:33.180 There we go. 03:33.180 --> 03:34.080 I'm happy with that. 03:34.080 --> 03:38.610 Apart from the fact for I can't see what's going on so what's going on there. 03:38.610 --> 03:45.790 So with the camera selected in the properties pane there's also a camera icon and here it is. 03:45.920 --> 03:48.690 I'm going to make this bit bigger so we can see what's going on. 03:48.750 --> 03:50.820 So there's quite a few options here. 03:50.820 --> 03:56.750 There's perspective for you which is on my default we can set it's orthographic which is great if you're 03:56.760 --> 04:03.750 rendering up drawing someone but it's not going to look very realistic if you set it off graphic and 04:03.750 --> 04:05.040 panoramic as well. 04:05.040 --> 04:10.860 Then we got the focal length of the cael camera so that changes the focal length the lower that number 04:10.860 --> 04:15.630 the more wide angle your view is going to be and it's set to millimetres at the moment. 04:16.020 --> 04:22.920 So the next option down is shift which shifts the camera pans across essentially from the felt position 04:23.310 --> 04:29.370 and why it will do up and down a great way of altering that and set that back to zero clipping. 04:29.370 --> 04:36.360 Now this is when youre the start of the clipping is how close will it actually show you your objects 04:36.390 --> 04:41.430 if youre really close to something you may get clipping issues right from the very beginning of your 04:41.430 --> 04:43.410 model so we zoom in too far. 04:43.410 --> 04:46.310 Now the end clipping that's what's causing this issue here. 04:46.320 --> 04:52.770 And if we move that higher or lower you can eventually fill up the entire board in the camera view and 04:52.770 --> 04:53.360 that's fine. 04:53.370 --> 04:58.040 At this particular camera distance from it at 132 ish. 04:58.050 --> 04:59.110 It's absolutely fine. 04:59.250 --> 05:03.040 Camera there's a little drop down here in camera presets that's quite cool. 05:03.080 --> 05:08.550 You can switch between real life cameras so that's a great way off. 05:08.610 --> 05:14.430 If you're taking real footage and adding your rendering on top of it later on we'll get to things like 05:14.430 --> 05:14.950 that. 05:15.030 --> 05:17.920 You can match your camera that you've just use. 05:17.970 --> 05:20.900 Brilliant and finally depth of field. 05:21.030 --> 05:26.460 Well that's how you can keep one of your objects in focus and blur out the rest of the scene. 05:26.460 --> 05:29.100 We're not going to go for anything like that at the moment. 05:29.100 --> 05:34.140 We just want to render up our scene and see what it looks like now because this is the active camera 05:34.140 --> 05:36.300 we can have more than one in a scene. 05:36.300 --> 05:41.760 We can see what the rendering looks like straight away by going up to render and hitting render image. 05:41.910 --> 05:46.980 And it will render the view we've currently got and the short cut for that is F 12. 05:47.190 --> 05:53.550 When we do that we see we've got this image here now to change the settings of the render itself that's 05:53.550 --> 05:58.650 over in the propertys with something that also looks like a camera on the far left. 05:58.730 --> 06:03.410 And if we click on that we've got the couple of options including a button to render anyway. 06:03.510 --> 06:07.740 Now further down here there are loads and loads of options and we're not going to go into detail at 06:07.740 --> 06:08.760 the moment. 06:08.760 --> 06:14.940 Suffice to say one of the most important ones is this resolution which is the resolution of the output 06:14.940 --> 06:15.470 image. 06:15.630 --> 06:19.260 And usually it's set up to default to 50 percent. 06:19.260 --> 06:23.810 Now the issue of it being asset's 50 per cent is indeed 50 percent of that there so if you wanted a 06:23.850 --> 06:30.010 10 ATP a high def image you'd have to wait for up to 100 per cent before hitting the render button here. 06:30.020 --> 06:39.120 F 12 or up on me in for air head to nanah up on the info header render image and then we get a much 06:39.210 --> 06:41.760 cleaner and crisp image as well. 06:41.810 --> 06:43.140 But it does take longer. 06:43.140 --> 06:45.750 In fact it takes about four times longer to do. 06:45.780 --> 06:50.820 The difference between now there are further options further down the performance one is one of the 06:50.820 --> 06:56.940 big ones for people playing about with the settings can improve and that is per computer basis depending 06:56.940 --> 07:02.440 on how many calls you have whether you were in blender render at the moment or were only using the cpq 07:02.520 --> 07:03.790 for rendering. 07:04.060 --> 07:05.730 Then finally our output fold. 07:05.730 --> 07:10.350 Now this is quite important because at the moments in the temporary folder but you can set that to somewhere 07:10.350 --> 07:16.140 else as you generate your images you can have an output folder for them as you do. 07:16.260 --> 07:22.410 And this is great because we can go to a P in G and later on we will set this up for when we're rendering 07:22.710 --> 07:26.930 animations as well because it essentially will create a video for us. 07:27.030 --> 07:34.320 So let's hop over and create a nother camera real quick so because we've done a rendering we're now 07:34.350 --> 07:38.490 in the picture of you so we're going to have to change ourselves back to the 3-d view. 07:38.670 --> 07:39.440 Excellent. 07:44.020 --> 07:47.960 Okay so we've got our camera and it's actually way out here in our scene. 07:47.970 --> 07:52.870 So I'm just going to duplicate that camera and put another one over here. 07:52.920 --> 07:58.250 Now if we go to view camera again you see that was still on that original camera and not on any one 07:58.590 --> 08:03.040 book because our new camera is selected what we can do is view. 08:03.940 --> 08:04.860 Cameras. 08:05.800 --> 08:09.230 And then set active object as camera. 08:09.460 --> 08:10.180 When we do that. 08:10.180 --> 08:12.640 This is the camera that we're now looking through. 08:12.730 --> 08:17.620 And of course we're not looking at anything yet because I plunked it somewhere random in our scene. 08:17.620 --> 08:24.290 So if I go and grab this new camera I'm going to actually move away so the moment you move away you 08:24.380 --> 08:26.100 are no longer in the camera view. 08:26.230 --> 08:33.220 I'm going to lift it up so it's above our board then I'm going to go view camera again. 08:33.220 --> 08:33.710 Excellent. 08:33.730 --> 08:37.770 I'm going to rotate that around it's own z axis. 08:37.930 --> 08:43.020 So looking at it from there and I'm going to move it out ever so slightly. 08:43.030 --> 08:44.970 So we can see more of the board here. 08:45.010 --> 08:52.210 And now when we go render image it's the active camera that we render from so that we can render it 08:52.210 --> 08:53.050 from that side. 08:53.050 --> 08:56.420 And if we select the other camera go view. 08:57.500 --> 08:59.070 Let's switch to 3-d view. 08:59.150 --> 09:02.270 Go view cameras set active camera. 09:02.270 --> 09:04.120 And again none zero. 09:04.130 --> 09:10.850 If you've got that and then when we go to render again we get our or that's the same view of a clicked 09:10.850 --> 09:13.470 on the wrong camera probably. 09:13.700 --> 09:22.300 So let's go back to 3-d if you select that camera go to view cameras set active object as camera control 09:22.320 --> 09:23.900 and nump had zero. 09:23.900 --> 09:27.210 Then you can go up and say file. 09:27.230 --> 09:30.270 Then you can go render render image. 09:30.410 --> 09:31.400 And there we go. 09:31.430 --> 09:34.660 So control and nump had zero will switch to a union camera. 09:34.790 --> 09:39.310 You could do great things with this later on if you want an object to look at another object. 09:39.450 --> 09:44.960 When we get to our characters etc. later on you can set up a camera with in that or just in front of 09:44.960 --> 09:51.170 the person's face or when you're actually doing your animations and things like that or even your stills 09:51.170 --> 09:56.570 you can guarantee that your your model is looking at another object in your scene or something like 09:56.570 --> 09:59.520 that because that's what you're seeing through their eyes so to speak. 09:59.820 --> 10:00.420 Okay. 10:00.500 --> 10:02.320 So it's Challenge time. 10:04.240 --> 10:10.150 I would like you to finish off the board and render it so you will need to append all of our pieces 10:10.210 --> 10:11.040 into the scene. 10:11.050 --> 10:17.380 The ones that we've got left to do duplicate the white pieces to create the black pieces and you'll 10:17.380 --> 10:23.590 need to change the material so it's a black piece again and then set up the scene itself to be more 10:23.620 --> 10:26.980 interesting than just a starting pose. 10:26.980 --> 10:33.100 Finally remember to show your friend in the discussions so I can see how you guys have gotten on board 10:33.100 --> 10:35.490 the video now and give that a go. 10:38.150 --> 10:38.790 Okay guys. 10:38.810 --> 10:39.870 Welcome back. 10:39.950 --> 10:42.610 Let's finish off this board and render it. 10:43.570 --> 10:49.040 So back over in blender Let's go and add unnecessary pieces. 10:49.270 --> 10:54.410 So let's I'm struggling to move my board about for some bizarre reason. 10:54.550 --> 10:57.760 I think I need to reset my view to fit current object. 10:58.000 --> 11:00.620 You show view selected that. 11:00.880 --> 11:04.760 Yes that sometimes happens if you zoom too far in or out. 11:04.820 --> 11:06.830 I'm glad it happened so I could show you. 11:06.940 --> 11:14.890 It does happen from time to time so we need to bring in some models so let's go and spend our. 11:14.920 --> 11:15.550 We brought it. 11:15.550 --> 11:17.750 We have brought in our bishops who don't need that. 11:18.070 --> 11:22.180 Let's do the king objects King. 11:22.960 --> 11:26.770 And I'm just going to go through and do every other one really quickly. 11:26.790 --> 11:29.300 Knights objects. 11:29.470 --> 11:30.320 Night. 11:31.830 --> 11:33.490 Then in two. 11:34.910 --> 11:37.410 Pend back out of here. 11:37.430 --> 11:38.330 Queen. 11:39.440 --> 11:40.890 Where are we here. 11:41.240 --> 11:42.230 Objet. 11:42.350 --> 11:43.140 Queen. 11:44.980 --> 11:45.940 Append. 11:48.100 --> 11:50.230 Rook object. 11:50.370 --> 11:51.070 Ruk. 11:51.190 --> 11:51.790 Brilliant. 11:51.910 --> 11:54.190 All our pieces on top of one another. 11:54.250 --> 12:00.790 Let's turn snapping to increments on since we're doing we're dealing with real world scale and we can 12:00.790 --> 12:07.010 literally just move that guy over here and call the turn face snapping on. 12:09.520 --> 12:12.520 I can move him and put him in the right place. 12:12.520 --> 12:13.160 Brilliant. 12:14.780 --> 12:16.690 In fact I do want. 12:18.240 --> 12:24.480 Increment turned on an hour just to constrain the movement itself to the x y plane. 12:24.510 --> 12:26.700 And then I can place exactly in the middle. 12:26.700 --> 12:27.780 Let's grab the next one. 12:27.780 --> 12:29.170 It's the king. 12:29.430 --> 12:35.100 So the white pea The White Queen is on the white square say Hold be over here so that's grabbing constrain 12:35.160 --> 12:37.850 TV's Z and put him there. 12:38.070 --> 12:40.630 I think I'm going to have the night next. 12:40.810 --> 12:45.680 Well let's grab him and constrain him to the z axis. 12:45.690 --> 12:46.850 Put in there. 12:48.080 --> 12:49.510 We've got now we've got the queen. 12:49.530 --> 12:49.990 Excellent. 12:49.990 --> 12:53.050 So again let's move her to there. 12:53.070 --> 12:53.940 Brilliant. 12:53.940 --> 12:56.210 So we just want to. 12:57.580 --> 13:00.290 Duplicate linked our. 13:01.550 --> 13:04.100 Rook and our knights. 13:04.190 --> 13:06.550 Now they look slightly different colours. 13:06.560 --> 13:09.260 I am a look at the rock is incomplete the wrong place. 13:09.260 --> 13:14.440 I am a little concerned that the normals may be around the wrong way on those particular models. 13:14.450 --> 13:20.450 I'm not sure if they are or not and it looks like these are now floating some I'm going to delete those 13:20.510 --> 13:29.650 and do them again because when I moved them I didn't constrain it to be this duplicates it linked. 13:31.160 --> 13:32.500 Duplicate linked. 13:32.540 --> 13:34.920 Then move the new one over here. 13:35.070 --> 13:39.710 Perfect and do the same with our rock. 13:39.710 --> 13:40.400 Excellent. 13:40.520 --> 13:46.340 So those are all those pieces there I do want to just go into the mesh objects themselves just go into 13:46.400 --> 13:53.750 this one here edit it select everything within the mesh itself and then we're going to. 13:54.510 --> 14:00.540 Get control n just to make sure the normals are the right way round and will do the same to the rook 14:00.540 --> 14:05.190 itself it may be that they've not got the white material applied to them as well so let's go and check 14:05.190 --> 14:06.150 that out. 14:06.400 --> 14:06.900 No art. 14:06.910 --> 14:07.710 No they don't. 14:07.710 --> 14:09.780 So white squared. 14:09.950 --> 14:11.020 K.. 14:11.490 --> 14:16.270 NONE of these appear to have a white material on them yet. 14:16.500 --> 14:17.970 Some might be worthwhile doing that. 14:17.970 --> 14:22.480 Now let's call this material white piece. 14:25.200 --> 14:25.730 Excellent. 14:25.740 --> 14:32.400 And let's make it's quite specular I want my pieces to be shiny and as white as it can be. 14:32.400 --> 14:33.050 There we go. 14:33.060 --> 14:35.370 That's that set up. 14:35.370 --> 14:40.060 Now here we can use this dropdown and apply a white piece and it applies across. 14:40.130 --> 14:43.320 I'm just going to do the same to all of the pieces. 14:43.320 --> 14:46.430 Now whilst I'm thinking about it. 14:47.340 --> 14:50.630 White piece and then the porn at the front as well. 14:50.660 --> 14:53.570 It in that's a white piece will do them all because they're all linked. 14:53.630 --> 15:00.170 So that's our board basically set up and we've got a bit of organization to do in the hierarchy so let's 15:00.170 --> 15:02.930 do that now let's put all of these. 15:03.050 --> 15:08.810 I'm going to create a layer of hierarchy and just to keep things organized himself so I'm going to add 15:08.810 --> 15:16.920 an empty and call it nights so I can keep That's just a plain axis and call them nights. 15:17.030 --> 15:18.200 White. 15:22.160 --> 15:27.680 Just realize if I'm going to duplicate this I'm going to have to do a lot of renaming may not do for 15:27.680 --> 15:29.030 the purposes of this exercise. 15:29.030 --> 15:33.780 I'm going to put the white knights in there and then the white knight in the white pieces and then a 15:33.790 --> 15:41.060 poly King can go in the low poly queen and go in the rock themselves because it's implied by white pieces 15:41.060 --> 15:41.480 itself. 15:41.490 --> 15:51.040 So anything in here says white it can be truncated just bishops nigh sup plural and porns. 15:51.110 --> 15:52.010 They're absolutely fine. 15:52.010 --> 15:54.650 It's implicit that they're white as they're under the white pieces. 15:54.690 --> 16:00.110 I'm going to join the rooke's together as well so let's add just the right shortcut. 16:00.120 --> 16:08.080 Add a empty called the plain exis have been nice for it to be over the Rockies self. 16:08.080 --> 16:09.490 So let's do that again. 16:11.880 --> 16:16.240 Empty plane axis and call it rocks. 16:17.620 --> 16:21.460 And put those under rocks. 16:21.970 --> 16:29.130 And put rooks under white pieces and then we've got a nice tidy hierarchy here. 16:29.140 --> 16:32.230 So we got our lighting and our white pieces. 16:32.230 --> 16:38.760 So then we should be able to select all of our objects underneath by holding down and trowing clicking. 16:39.900 --> 16:42.770 The little mesh icon there the little empty icon. 16:42.990 --> 16:44.050 And now I should be able. 16:44.070 --> 16:47.680 I don't want to I don't want to jib Kate links. 16:47.700 --> 16:51.010 I actually want to do a separate duplication at this point. 16:51.060 --> 16:51.690 And there we go. 16:51.690 --> 16:57.520 Got our other pieces and I'm going to constrain it's fixed by plane and pop them. 16:57.530 --> 17:05.160 They're obviously they're round the wrong way at the moment so we can rotate on the z axis by 180. 17:05.370 --> 17:06.630 And they've moved round. 17:06.830 --> 17:10.930 And we need to bring them forward again and probably move them across. 17:11.720 --> 17:13.380 So they're in the right position. 17:13.400 --> 17:14.160 Excellent. 17:14.390 --> 17:18.210 And white pieces 0 1 so call this black pieces. 17:19.530 --> 17:20.240 Excellent. 17:21.340 --> 17:25.580 So white pieces black pieces we just need to colour them in the appropriate colour. 17:25.600 --> 17:31.690 So them being as they are we need to create a new material so that's bring the properties pain back 17:31.690 --> 17:36.730 up so we can sit and create a new material going to call it. 17:37.690 --> 17:41.020 So now you can call it black pieces. 17:43.640 --> 17:44.150 Excellent. 17:44.150 --> 17:51.380 And I'm going to set the colour so black unsurprisingly I'm still going to give it a lot of spec clarity 17:51.380 --> 17:53.680 so it's got a nice sheen to it. 17:53.870 --> 17:54.800 So 100 percent on both. 17:54.800 --> 17:55.940 I'm not sure obviously will. 17:55.940 --> 17:58.420 We may edit this in the render in a moment. 17:58.500 --> 17:59.330 So we've got those there. 17:59.330 --> 18:05.350 And finally let's finally let's apply that to our models. 18:05.390 --> 18:08.780 I don't mean to grab that too but this here black piece is excellent. 18:08.780 --> 18:13.640 This one here looks like it's what the white piece applied to it so let's remove that and we've got 18:13.640 --> 18:16.760 the black piece there done and here. 18:16.790 --> 18:25.370 Let's remove that material and add black pieces and do the same on the rest of our models here apply 18:25.730 --> 18:27.940 black pieces here. 18:27.950 --> 18:33.110 Remove that material and apply it black pieces and two more models to go. 18:33.110 --> 18:36.350 It's no longer a white King it's a black king. 18:36.350 --> 18:42.310 And our final thing here is to make the queen black as well. 18:42.320 --> 18:42.830 So there we go. 18:42.830 --> 18:45.380 That's all that are roughed out. 18:45.380 --> 18:47.480 Let's see how it looks in rended mode. 18:47.480 --> 18:49.840 So let's go and view it from the camera. 18:49.850 --> 18:51.100 So we've got our angle right. 18:51.110 --> 18:54.750 That's absolutely fine and render our image. 18:54.920 --> 18:55.520 Wow. 18:55.550 --> 18:56.020 Excellent. 18:56.020 --> 18:58.140 So let's zoom in there see how that looks. 18:58.340 --> 19:00.530 I'm I really like fat. 19:00.530 --> 19:03.420 That's absolutely brilliant that's turned out wonderful. 19:03.560 --> 19:08.420 Couple of things the side could do here is move the pieces about I'll leave you to do that some running 19:08.420 --> 19:09.750 rapidly out of time. 19:09.770 --> 19:14.500 And of course the king and queen on the black side are currently on the wrong squares as well. 19:14.810 --> 19:17.840 I'd love to see your renders in the discussions. 19:17.870 --> 19:21.160 Please share and I will see you in the next lecture.