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5 - The Perspectives Inspector

Manages viewpoints defined by a camera, a target and a focal length. Each viewpoint is considered to be an autonomous document with its own parameters which can receive its own environment:

Viewpoints List: for handling viewpoints displayed on the list.

1. Camera: settings, check elements to activate.
• Focal Length: by using the cursor or entering a value (Change the camera angle). The units depends on the preferences settings.
• Depth of Field: click then, in the Preview window, click to define the clear point of the scene, with the rest remaining blurred. The cursor adjusts the blur amount.
• Clipping Box: for defining clipping planes.
• Show: In 2D View
• Activate: Preview Representation
2. Lighting: To handle light schemes linked to the view, select them from the drop-down menus.
• Heliodon: links a heliodon to the view. Selecting "None" deactivates the heliodon.
• Light Group: links one or more light groups to the view. Selecting "None" deactivates the light groups.
• Neon Shaders: Links one or more Neon Shaders to the view. Selecting "None" deactivates the lighting.
3. Visible layers: check them in the drop-down menu.
4. Environment: handles the background and foreground of the scene.
• Defining a background: Background type: 3D Sky, Gradient, 2D Image, 3D Image, 3D Cubic
• Foreground Images
• Site insertion tool automatically sets the camera with a background image.
  Clicking opens the dialog.
5. Coordinates:
• Camera XYZ Position.
• Target XYZ Position. Clicking on locks them and clicking on unlocks them.
• It is possible to limit a camera's target to an object's movement: In object mode, right click on and object and select "Define As Target" in the drop-down menu. Then, in Perspectives mode select the name of the object in question in the Target on menu.
• Camera Roll: Pivots camera laterally. Turn the circular cursor or enter a value in degrees in the related field.
6. Post-production
• Applies effects to the current viewpoint: The effects combine with and between the parameters set in the inspector.
7. Rendering Parameters
• Prepares the document for final rendering.

NB: editing the scene information such as the infinite ground, movement of the origin, redimensioning of the model and the coordinates may be accessed via the Window menu.

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