Camera Align | Maya Script
Align camera perpendicular to the face.
This tool orients perspective camera to selected face and switchs to the orthogonal mode.
When align mode is on - the gizmo manipulator takes a screen space orientation.
Also in the align mode you can rotate camera in the screen space CCW and CW directions.
You can make any edge of the selected polygon be 100% horizontal or vertical to the camera. Such edge will be the one which was closest to horizontal or vertical direction from camera point of view.
Installation:
- Put the file camera_align.pyc into \Documents\maya\20XX\scripts
- Assign 4 following commands to 4 separate hotkeys (Python):
from camera_align import Camera_Align
Camera_Align().set_align_mode()
- Escape align mode:
from camera_align import Camera_Align
Camera_Align().remove_align_mode()
- Rotate camera left (in align mode, angle can be set to any)
from camera_align import Camera_Align
Camera_Align().rotate_cam(22.5)
- Rotate camera right (in align mode, angle can be set to any)
- Rotate camera right (in align mode, angle can be set to any)
- Rotate camera right (in align mode, angle can be set to any)
- Rotate camera right (in align mode, angle can be set to any)
- Rotate camera right (in align mode, angle can be set to any)
- Rotate camera right (in align mode, angle can be set to any)
- Rotate camera right (in align mode, angle can be set to any)
- Rotate camera right (in align mode, angle can be set to any)
from camera_align import Camera_Align
Camera_Align().rotate_cam(-22.5)
- For more convenience, turn off the ortho rotation lock:
Align camera perpendicular to the face.