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Hello to the Substance Support Community!
I am still in the tryout period, to see how my workflow with 3D Stager can ease my work. From time to time i do virtual staging in Dimensions and i was waiting for the possibility to set lights as now in Stager! Often i want to put the camera in one-point-perspective. For me it makes sense to put the camera with a straigt forward view a bit more to the right or left and then - as i do it in real photography to shift the lens to the right or left. in my old §D Editor Cheetah3D i used to set a mask in front of the camera to render only the wanted ratio (3:2) and not to render a huge image and crop it later in Photoshop. Has anyone an idea how i can do it in Stager? Photographers, knowing Tilt/Shift lenses will understand the problem.
I am thankfull for any help:
Have a good day!
Laas
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Hello Laas!
Stager allows you to create camera objects which have an explicit size, so you can create different aspect ratio renders all from one scene pretty easily. I think this should give you the 'mask' effect you're looking for.
Unfortunately Stager doesn't have shift lens simulation, but if it's mostly a matter of not wanting to render extra area, you can do this to crop the view to your aspect ratio you want.
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With this simple pics i want to show, what i need in order not to render more than needed. in an other application i use to set the viev of the camera 1:1 and put a black mask with my wanted crop. That Render-engine ignores the black and just spends time for rendering my wanted area. Because in some architecture pics i dont want to tilt the camera right or left / up or down - just to keep lines straight. This shift lens simulation could be a perfect extra for architecture renderings... Thank you for your reply... I see, i cant avoid rendering a much bigger area and then to crop it in PS 😞
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Ah got it, thank you for the images! Yeah, this feature isn't available yet, but should be relatively easy to add. You can request and vote on features here: https://feedback.substance3d.adobe.com/
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Just curious question. What if we will move the scene not mask area? Will be it the same or not?
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one more thing i discovered... If i take a background-photo with my T/S lens, shifted to the right or left, i cant set the perspective right in Stager. Same if i take a photo, made with a normal lens, but cropped on one side.... Stager "thinks the middle of the photo(view) was always the center of the sensor. Using a center-cropped photo is no problem.
Solution 1:
Adding the cropped material back to the photo - as much as it is needed to bring the center of the view back to the middle and then to place it in stager...
Solution 2: (more difficult for Substance Team)
finding a way to let the user align the x and z axis individually(just a bit) for Photos which are cropped from one side. Hope i didnt confuse with my explanation...
B R Laas
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