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Walk-through and flyover animations

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Walk-through and flyover animations

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this week I'm going to create a walkthrough animation. And the process begins by placing a camera, so you use this tool and you drag from the camera location to the direction in which the camera is pointing, like that. And this places the camera right on the ground where I drag on that surface. I need to immediately follow this up by setting the Eye Height, I'll type five feet, Enter in the lower right-hand corner of the interface. I'd also like to control the field of view of the camera, so I'll go up to Camera, Field of View and then I can drag up or down to set that field of view. A good rule of thumb for an interior space might be to set it between 50 and 60 degrees, I'll type 60 D-E-G and Enter and this will be the typical field of view for the walkthrough. And now I'd like to save this position as my first scene, so I need to open the Scenes window on the Mac or expand it in the Default tray in Windows and I'm going to create a scene by clicking Plus, but over here you can…

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