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Carrara 8 – Basic Users Guide
CAMERA ROTATION TOOLS
The Camera Rotation tool has three options, which you access by clicking the arrow that appears at the bottom-right
corner of the tool. The popup menu displays the additional options.
Select the one you want to use:
• Dolly changes the camera's position and orientation while keeping it pointed at the same spot in the
scene.
• Pan works like turning your head: the camera's position in 3D space does not change when you orient it
in any direction. Refer to "Panning."
• Bank allows you to roll the orientation of the camera without changing its location. Imagine tipping your
head to the side. Refer to "Banking."
NOTE! In isometric views it is not the camera that is moved when using those
shortcuts but the zoom and pan that are modified.
2D View Tools
Carrara also provides tools that allow you to pan and zoom the scene in the document window, and to
perform test renders from within the document window. These tools appear along the left side of the
document window by default. They are the "Test Render Tool," the "2D Pan Tool," and the "2D Zoom
Tool."
Test Render Tool
Use the Test Render tool to render an area of your scene in
the Assemble or Storyboard rooms, or in the Scene Preview
window. You can easily check out an effect without rendering
the entire scene.
To use the Test Render tool:
1. Choose the Test Render tool.
2. In the document window, drag a marquee across the
area to be previewed.
3. Carrara renders the area you have selected.
To work efficiently, keep the size of your render previews
small. Larger areas take longer to ray trace and require
more memory. If you want to ray trace more than a small
portion of your scene, you might as well do a low resolution
rendering. Refer to "Rendering."
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