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    [Plugin] Quick Camera Rotate 90º (Roll)

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    • J Offline
      Jim
      last edited by

      About the same - just wanted to be able to export standard views only rotated. Yes, roll is the correct term.

      Hi

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      • mitcorbM Offline
        mitcorb
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        Jim this sounds interesting.
        Could you illustrate, or elaborate?
        I think you mean the effect you get when orbiting and pressing the control button, and you have set it at specific angles, is that correct?

        I take the slow, deliberate approach in my aimless wandering.

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        • J Offline
          Jim
          last edited by

          It just rolls the camera around the line-of-site by 90 degrees each time the button is pressed. Image 1 is a normal Front view. Image 2 is still a Front view, but with the Camera rotated about it's direction vector (and zoomed in.)


          front1.png


          front2.png

          Hi

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          • mitcorbM Offline
            mitcorb
            last edited by

            Well, now, this is excellent!

            I take the slow, deliberate approach in my aimless wandering.

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            • thomthomT Offline
              thomthom
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              @jclements said:

              What a great, basic tool.

              Thanks, Jim.

              It would be kind of cool if you could hook it into the Protractor Tool to make it interactive.

              Yea - that's exactly what I had in mind. A click drag to define an angle displayed on sceeen as the protractor tool, and where you can use the VCB to input a specific angle.

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              • mitcorbM Offline
                mitcorb
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                ThomThom:
                I can see that your concept would have relevance for tight box selections in a busy model. I was trying to do this yesterday while selecting a series of end connected edges between other parallel edges in a mesh for scaling that one series. Being able to roll the camera will enable me to make a tall thin selection box with the select tool to isolate.

                What would be nice is a selection tool that can use circular or polygonal selection areas, but I guess that would be for another thread, and I suppose this is not addressable in ruby.

                I take the slow, deliberate approach in my aimless wandering.

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                  JClements
                  last edited by

                  What a great, basic tool.

                  Thanks, Jim.

                  It would be kind of cool if you could have a similar script hook into the Protractor Tool to make it interactive.

                  John | Illustrator | Beaverton, Oregon

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                    danbig
                    last edited by

                    @thomthom said:

                    @jclements said:

                    What a great, basic tool.

                    Thanks, Jim.

                    It would be kind of cool if you could hook it into the Protractor Tool to make it interactive.

                    Yea - that's exactly what I had in mind. A click drag to define an angle displayed on sceeen as the protractor tool, and where you can use the VCB to input a specific angle.

                    ... I'll add a third vote for this feature.

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                    • S Offline
                      supersketcher
                      last edited by

                      Thanks Jim.

                      I like it: simple but effective!

                      It indeed deserves a dedicated icon.

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                      • J Offline
                        JGA
                        last edited by

                        Thanks for this plugin, very useful!

                        Regards,
                        JGA

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                        • L Offline
                          langloisl
                          last edited by

                          Hello,

                          your plug-in to roll the camera is great 👍 , but it does not meet my need 😞 . What I look for, is being able to rotate my camera precisely 90 degrees in the direction I want, either left, right, up, down.

                          This is in order to be able to create a cube to six or rendered with Kerkythea or Twilight Render and then assemble them with GoCubic.

                          Plug-In "cubicpanoout.rb" does not create six scenes, he does that exporting 6 cubic views. If you have the solution to my problem, it would be much appreciated!

                          Greetings ! 😄

                          Ludo

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                            dylanwoods
                            last edited by

                            very very helpful. thanks

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                            • P Offline
                              PaulfromtheNorth
                              last edited by

                              EXACTLY what i was looking for!

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                                SamUK
                                last edited by

                                Hi Jim

                                I realise this is an old thread but here's hoping...

                                Could you tell me if this plugin would work with 2013, it sounds really useful and I would love to be able to use it however, I have put it in the plugin folder to no avail....

                                It would be good to know if it would be compatible or not, so I can try harder or give up....

                                Thanks

                                Sam

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                                • Dave RD Offline
                                  Dave R
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                                  It works fine in SU2013. Perhaps you could describe what you are seeing or not seeing?

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                                    db11
                                    last edited by

                                    I use this great little plug-in a lot, especially to orient from the standard Top view for plans.Now I have a house whose grid is at 45° and I'd like to be able to use this to align the view (as a Parallel Projection).

                                    Is there a simple mod to make this work for 45°? I took a quick look at the script, and it wasn't obvious to me, which variable/value to change.Maybe someone who actually knows what they're doing could help me out?

                                    Thanks.

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                                    • TIGT Offline
                                      TIG Moderator
                                      last edited by

                                      Perhaps this does what you want?
                                      http://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=Rotateplanview

                                      TIG

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                                        db11
                                        last edited by

                                        Perfect! Exactly what I was looking for... I guess I just didn't scroll far enough down the page when I searched 'rotate camera' in the plugins forum.

                                        Thanks TIG

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