Camera and Light Options now available in the Properties Panel

[jenkmeister]

Starting with AE Beta 24.5x40, Camera and Light Options available in the Timeline are accessible in the Properties Panel. Simply select the appropriate Camera or Light layer and the available properties will be shown in the Properties Panel.

Camera Options

The Camera Options will adjust based on the composition Renderer (Classic 3D, Advanced 3D, Cinema 4D). Quickly access additional settings such as Focal Length, Film Size, Angle of View, etc., by clicking the Camera Settings button.

Light Options

Change the Light Type or any of the associated properties of a light directly from the Properties Panel. You can also change and adjust multiple lights at the same time.

When the composition renderer is set to Advanced 3D, you can also choose the Environment Light Type and then pick from any HDR or EXR environment source layers from the Source drop down menu.

We hope this makes it easier to set up and customize your Camera and Light settings for your projects. Let us know what you think!

[xiaoxixi]

This feature looks great! But would also love to see essential properties appear in the property panel when multiple precomp layers that have same essential properties are selected, so that we can change the essential property value for multiple layers simultaneously, just like what we have for layer transform properties.

[Shebbe]

That's a nice idea. It would be even better if selecting multiple layers would populate the properties panel with the settings of each respective layer regardless of it's content. That way any combination of layers could be selected and adjusted. Clear labeling of which layers are listed above the editable properties per layer would be important but it could greatly improve the properties panel usability.

[kerijaa59226602]

Could you also add Accepts Lights param to the layer's Material Options in Advanced 3D Renderer? Currently (in non-beta 24.5.0), the 3D layers are being shaded, even there are no lights in the scene, and Diffuse and Ambient are set to 100%.
Also, it is confusing to have those pickwhips next to Cast Shadows, Accepts Shadows, Appears in Reflections, even those are unkeyable and I am unable to add there expressions. Why don't you make those keyable, so it is possible to link those to some general switches for convenient scene unburdening?

[jenkmeister]

Accept Lights - stay tuned. It is on the roadmap.

Things that aren't keyable are likely related to what the rendering engine currently supports. But I'll see what the team has to say about it.