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Setting rotation axis order

Setting rotation axis order - 3ds Max Tutorial

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Setting rotation axis order

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- [Instructor] One of the main reasons for using a free camera is to reproduce the action of an actual tripod. And to do that most fully, we can change the axis order, or the order of rotations, in order to prioritize different rotation axes. So I've got a free camera here. I can select it. And I'll go to the rotate tool in gimbal coordinate system once again. And we have three axes for a camera. We have the pan axis, which is left and right. We have the tilt axis, which is up and down. I'll undo that with control Z. And then we also have the line of sight axis, or the Dutch tilt or canted angle. All right, well you notice when I rotate around the line of sight in gimbal mode, the red X axis, which is the tilt axis, is following the rotations. And that's an indication that the axes actually have an internal hierarchy. There is actually an internal order to the operations for rotations. And they're rotated by default in the order x, y, and z. And this is why we're seeing this result…

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