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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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- 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 axis. So, I 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 axis for a camera. We have the pan axis, which is left and right. We have the tilt axis, which is up and down. I want to do that with control Z and then we also have the line of sight axis or the dutch tilt or canted angle. Alright, 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 axis actually have an internal hierarchy. There's 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. So if I rotate around z the…

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