[Bf-committers] Camera Guides

Campbell Barton ideasman42 at gmail.com
Tue May 10 05:14:38 CEST 2011


On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 12:58 AM, Bassam Kurdali
<bkurdali at freefactory.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 00:28 +0000, Campbell Barton wrote:
>> Agree they are unrelated (except the case where Camera images could be
>> made to force foreground and overlay some reference).
> Not completely but it *is* close: images will suffer due to scaling
> (especially if you don't intend on making a new one for each aspect
> ratio) while procedural guides can be drawn at one pixel width
> regardless of the resolution/aspect ratio- and now you'll have an added
> dependency for your files. But it's a poor-man's solution for users who
> don't want to apply a simple patch.
>> I only mentioned it because the topic came up on this thread.
>>
>> There is still a case for having this feature, Michael and I just
>> disagree on how it should be done, in fact Ton also disagrees :), he
>> suggests camera BG images to have a FG option.
> Well, that's ok :) I'm not personally in a rush, and people who need
> this right now can patch, graphicall, hack their own - it's not like
> this is going to result in any major compatibility issues. I hacked my
> own a while ago, no problems.
>>
>> Bassam, can you give an example screenshot of how you use this?
> sure:
> http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=12124
> I use it to compose shots! as you can see, the one pixel dotted line is
> fairly unobtrusive, and it works 'right' regardless of focal
> length/aspect ratio. In this image even though she's coming down the
> escalator towards us, her eyes are always on the top third line of the
> screen. Other images would have a center of interest on one or more of
> the thirds intersections, etc. Pretty standard stuff really.
>>
>> Also, anyone can still work on adding camera overlay presets, its a
>> good beginner task.
> Yup, this is a very easy hack! though, not so easy to get it approved I
> guess ;)

Composition guide presets committed r36590. see the camera display panel.
Maybe I missed some useful preset, easy to add others.


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