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VRay Camera Manager

By RayTracer05 · 2013-05-10

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Version
1.0.02
3ds Max compatibility
Unknown
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Original version requirement
Tested in in Max 2012, 2013, 2014 but should work in earlier versions
Other software required
VRay 2.0 or higher
Date updated
2013-05-20
Legacy votes
5

Release history

  • Version 1.0.02Listed version

    Listing updated

Tags: Cameras, V-Ray, lister, manager, VRayPhysicalCamera

Description

  • List and edit the most used VRay Physical Camera parameters in an easy to read table
  • Change the settings of multiple cameras without selecting in scene
  • Shutter priority mode - lock the shutter speed and vary the aperture or film ISO keeping the exposure constant.
  • Aperture priority mode
  • Film ISO priority mode
  • Sort the table contents by clicking on the column headers

Right click menu:

  • Select camera
  • Send camera to the current or camera VP
  • Copy and paste settings between cameras
  • Convert perspective viewport to a Vray camera
  • Convert non VRay camera to a VRay camera
  • Delete camera

Column Chooser to display only the parameters you want to see:

Vray Camera Manager started as a personal project. When I was working in large scenes with multiple (10+) cameras I found it slow to swap between cameras. Also I often wanted to change a setting on more than one camera without selecting them indiviually in the scene. If you have any feature requests or want to report a bug please leave acomment below.

Comments (14)

Comment policy

NicolasC

Any chance to make it CoronaCameras compliant ?

Hello :)
First, thanks a lot for this very useful tool. We regularly have much more than 1 or 2 cameras in our scenes, to it's pleasure to have this VCM under the hand.
Noww, we use Corona renderer more and more on our projects, could you please update VCM to make it possible to handle Corona cameras ?
Thanks in advance
Regards.

marcwe

mass change to parameter of selected camera would be appreciate

thank's

tOm

Physical camera please

Hi,

Great script, really !
So bad it doesn't manage 3dsmax 2016 physical cameras :(
Do you consider update it soon ?

itscramo

installation

how do i install it? open it?

Reply to itscramo
pixamoon

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just drag and drop to max
-> then go to menu Customize

you should find it in category "VRay"
name of script is "VRay Camera Manager"

Alex

physical camera

Thank you! Please add the physical camera max 2016

Alex

One more parameter, please

Can you add "vertical tilt" & "horizontal tilt", please?
Would be very useful. I think most of artists touch this parameter in every project as I do.

Alex

color balance in animated camera

Tried to copy settings from static cameras to 1 animated and found that white balance from drop down list is not animateable. Custom balance is copying successfully.

Bill Sands

Dialogue box, and error

Hi,

I have one suggestion to make, and one problem to report.

Suggestion: When I expand the dialogue box, there is a limit to the size of the scrollable area. What I mean is that up to a certain size the scroll bar and the list of cameras is the same size as the window, when re-sized, but when the window gets too big, the list stays 28 cameras long and the window gets a grey panel at the bottom. The scroll bars do not expand further than 28 cameras.

The problem seems to have been a one-off, but I got a debug error when I tried to close the dialogue. The window stayed open and a red cross appeared across the content area with a white background. When I closed the debug popup, the cam lister dialogue closed. Unfortunately I did not take down any details of the error. If it happens again, I'll copy them down and forward them to you.

Finally... Great script! Very much appreciated.

EDIT: I have also noticed that when you delete a camera, the window resizes to be one camera row shorter. That is a bit annoying in my opinion. If that could be fixed, so that it didn't resize that would be great.

Bill

maxxi

convert to vray camera

Hello,

I tried to convert my 3ds max camera to a vray camera but the 3ds max camera doesn't show up in the VR camera manager! I'm using max 2014 and Vray 2.40.0

cheers

Reply to maxxi
RayTracer05

How to Convert a Max Camera to VRay Camera

Hi Maxxi,

To convert a standard Max camera to a VRay camera:
1. Set the current viewport to the Max camera.
2. Then right click over one of the VRay cameras in the VCM and select 'Convert VP/non VRay cam'.

A new VRay camera will be created using the settings of camera you right clicked over.

I should really write a short help section...

TSchmiesing

Width and Height Resolution

It would be cool if your camera manager could also switch the image dimensions in the render dialog according to what camera you are looking at.

Reply to TSchmiesing
RayTracer05

Width and Height Resolution

Yes, camera dependent render settings is something I was thinking of adding anyway.
I'll have a look at adding height and width first and see how it works.

Reply to RayTracer05
inpow

Installing

Helo i'm new to max & vray,

How to install this script? Put it on which folder? [Nevermind, it was SOLVED :-) ]

Thanks!