I want to be able to zoom into the camera viewport when I have an image set to the background - is there a script or something that does this and keeps the image and model locked together ?
Thanks
Change the camera’s focal length or film gate.
You can do that with this plugin: http://www.maxplugins.de/r2010\_files/watje/ZoomCamera\_Max2010.zip work in 2011 too, but no 2012 version yet.
/Thomas
I don’t think this zooms the viewport background - am I wrong? I would love this functionality too, very handy for aligning models for compositing.
Changing the focal length or film gate wouldn’t work - if you imagine lining up a photomontage in the camera viewport.
Thomas, thanks for the link unfortunately we are using max 2009 !! Just my luck ! Did you create this ? If so, do you have an idea of when you will write one for 2012?
Thanks
N
EDIT: Ok, I can see it was Peter Watje that wrote it, I might contact him.
There is a max 2009 version too: http://www.maxplugins.de/r2009\_files/watje/ZoomCamera\_Max9to2009.zip
And it does exactly what you want, zoom in a camera view and the background stays where it’s supposed to be. I’ve used it many times myself.
/Thomas
Thanks for the link Thomas, the plugin works really well !
Actually having tried the plugin further I really need to zoom into the Viewport Background image with the model locked to it - almost if I was zooming into an image in photoshop, if you know what I mean ?
no plugins needed!! (i think)
i dont know if it still works, but when using opengl, you can do what is called “virtual viewport” - actually pretty positive this works in 2009, as i used to use it for cam alignment. autodesk in their wisdom discontinued the feature in their switch to direct 3d.
controls below:
/ (numpad)
Virtual Viewport - to magnify a portion of your view without changing the camera (OpenGL Modus only)
+, - (numpad)
Virtual Viewport - Zoom In / Out
4, 8, 6, 2 (numpad)
Virtual Viewport - Left, Up, Right, Down
Super Gnu - you are a star !!! It works, amazingly.
Indeed I changed to OpenGL and in the viewport with an image set to the background I used;
/ to access Virtual Viewport and when in there
+ and - to zoom in and out,
8 is pan up
6 right
2 down and
4 left.
Outstanding, many thanks, this will save me alot of time matching photomontages.
N
no problem.. what comes from being a dinosaur i guess. i dont think even the guys at autodesk remember that feature. its not in the help files for max any more.
If you go to Viewport Configuration/Virtual viewport you can zoom in up to 4x.
Zoran