Keeping vertical items vertical in perspective

[Markvl]

Hey forum how do I best keep vertical items vertical in perspective to keep the image more realistic and avoid a fish eye kind of result.

[zoomer]

You can keep your camera level and later move the crop of your viewport upwards

until you get your desired image crop.

(But that setup will get destroyed when you re-enter the Camera and do changes

to the Camera, you have to readjust crop and viewport position afterwards again)

Edited April 29, 2021 by zoomer

[drelARCH]

when you are on design layer and you have any custom perspective view you can correct verticality by selecting any standard view: Left, Right ... This approach is useful if your custom view is close to any standard view...then by panning you have little freedom to position view point and still keep standard view verticality ...Yes you are restricted to the standard view but still there is at least this possibility.

Hope this make sense.

 

[Jeff Prince]

@Markvl Photoshop 🙂

 

Or perhaps Paolo’s plumbbob tool?

 

[Chris Fleming]

Camera height and Look-to height must be equal. If you're missing some detail at the edges of the image, simply raise or lower the camera height of move the camera's position. The key is that Camera Height and Look-To must be equal.

 

[Markvl]

@Chris Fleming that seems to be doing the trick.  Thanks.

[zoomer]

That is what I meant by :

 

On 4/29/2021 at 3:29 PM, zoomer said:

You can keep your camera level

 

But this alone will prevent from distorted vertical lines only,

but you may not get your desired "section of picture"

 

 

Therefore the second step :

 

On 4/29/2021 at 3:29 PM, zoomer said:

and later move the crop of your viewport upwards

until you get your desired image crop.

 

Means you keep your camera strictly horizontal

(your image will show only half of the desired building and another half

of unwanted ground)

Instead of tilting the camera upwards, to get your"section of picture",

which would distort vertical lines, you have to move the cameras lens

vertically.

 

This is basically the same result as you would get in Modo or Cinema4d

when shifting the image sensor by a Y shift value.

(Or a real old Foto Camera with large film size and Bellow)

or in Twinmotion or Enscape, automatically by just activating things like

an "architectural camera" Option or similar.

 

 

 

The problem in VW is just that this fragil setup easily destroys itself .... :

 

On 4/29/2021 at 3:29 PM, zoomer said:

(But that setup will get destroyed when you re-enter the Camera and do changes

to the Camera, you have to readjust crop and viewport position afterwards again)

 

[Luis M Ruiz]

This is a good suggestion.

[MarcelP102]

Hi @Luis M Ruiz

 

Do you know if something like the 'architectural' camera as @zoomersuggest is in the works? We would really like the ability to set a two point perspective with the horizon around 1/3 of the picture height like this. 

 

[rDesign]

@MarcelP102 @Luis M Ruiz There are several Wish List items requesting this functionality:

 

 

Edited July 29, 2022 by rDesign