Auto Camera Crosshairs
anaximanes_2000
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I am sure many will have suggestions, but I am not to great at complicated things, so essentially, if anyone that write scripts or something could make a PNG that is a centered crosshair, like say the "guides" in photoshop. You know how you can show those and use them to align things in PS, but when you print/show off the pic you make, the guides are not "there"? I'd like someone to make a transparent PNG that sets itself onto say a plane on Daz (you know like h ow character cutouts work) and when I simply click a button, it sticks it as a group to the active camera (doubt it would work on just "perspective view).
Then, when I am doing renders and want to make sure things are centered in my camera better, it will be worlds easier instead of doing it all in post production with PS and losing often some of the edges of my render to get it more centered from "eyeballing" it in Daz. So, I'd request just a "one click" does it all thing where if I have a Camera selected in the "Scene Tab", I click it and BAM instantly created, centered right in front of the camera, and already set to "Not Visual" for when it renders. Please and thank you.
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The Display options in the Parameters pane already have Visible in render as a toggle, create you plane with the crosshairs and Visible in Render off, save it, and you can now reload and parent it to any camera (if you create it with the Primary Axis as Z Negative then parenting it to the camera with Parent in Place off will snap it to the centre of the camera, you will just need to give it a bit of negative Z translation to move it to be visible - I don't know a built-in way to parent relative to the parent but keeping a non-zero offset)
Maybe the creator can make it just a camera then with the thing all set up as a stand along scene? If there is not a built in way to parent it? I'll try messing with it, but would be awesome to just click and BAM. The creator could even sell it with other premade ones that maybe have more guides on the screen or even grids. Anyway, just a suggestion that would be useful for me. Thansk though, Richard.
You could set it all up as a Scene Subset and load that, but then you would not be able to use the options like copying the current sceen view that you get when creating a new camera.
I tried this, but for some reason when I select "visible in render" to OFF, it disappears in Iray, even though I have "Visible in Viewport" set to ON.
"Visible in render" also means "visible in Iray preview." Or invisible, if you set it to "off."
Yes, that would be expected I think - the Iray DrawStyle is a render, albeit using different settings.